Teach reading through the computer?

Can you teach reading through the computer? This article apparently says it doesn't.

But having made programs involving reading, I understand this problem. Passive listening/reading is not really reading. Listening is not active. Furthermore, the computer can't replace practice. It can only promote practice, maybe some pointed practice, like focusing in on grammar issues. But is quite impractical at hunderstanding what is the problem with the readers understanding because the computer needs a set of instructions. Instructions from the user, which reading and writing are linked, that the reader can't articulate the problem. I guess what I'm getting at is that the computer is a tool and has to be part of instructors toolkit, but for reading it doesn't replace the instructor. And as a tool, it will help the instructor see what the reader has accomplished, but the instructor needs to prob the learning to really understand the learnings competency and experience with the work/text itself. Unlike Math, which in the early abstract math topics,it is a ladder or stepped learning engagement and more options for understanding can be offered based upon where the learner fell off.