This literature review aims to demystify the relative value of disciplinary literacy in education by answering a single question: Is disciplinary literacy a valid teaching and learning strategy for improving student reading and communication skills in public schools (K-12)?

Like technology, or perhaps because of it, American society is undeniably moving at breakneck speed... In of itself, technology is a broad term—one that could potentially lead an unwary author and his or her unassuming audience down a figurative rabbit hole of no return... [T]he present inquiry shall be confined to the role of technology in education over the last 30 years—a span of time characterized by the emergence and exponential growth of the Internet, which spurred unprecedented socioeconomic change and educational reform in the United States.