As Siegel (2006) points out, “children have always engaged in what are now called multimodal literacy practices” (pg.65) Children naturally talk about, dramatize and draw ideas that they are reading and writing about. Furthermore, using multiple modes or sign systems can provide new and deeper meaning (Siegel, 2006, pg. 71)
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ACS Information Fluency - Home - 0 views
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this is so cool
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the article on information and technology literacy works to describe the challenge of teaching these skills to my students. technology changes, and there is infinite information, so the trick is to teach students how to find and evaluate information sources. this must be relelvent and a life long learning opportunity.
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I am trying out the sticky function of digolet
Sonia Nieto - 0 views
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Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she was educated in the New York City Public Schools. She attended St. John's University, Brooklyn campus, where she received a B.S. in Elementary Education in 1965. Upon graduation, she attended New York University's Graduate Program in Madrid, Spain, and received her MA in Spanish and Hispanic Literature in 1966. A junior high school teacher of English, Spanish, and ESL in Ocean Hiil/Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1968 she took a job at P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast. Her first position in higher education was as an Instructor in the Department of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College, where she taught in a bilingual education teacher preparation program co-sponsored with the School of Education. Moving to Massachusetts with her family in 1975, she completed her doctoral studies in 1979 with specializations in curriculum studies, bilingual education, and multicultural education.
Multimodal Learning Blog - 0 views
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Research to date shows that when curricular changes include multimodality, those youth who experience substantial success are the very ones who’ve been labeled “struggling reader” or “learning disabled” (Siegel, 2006, pg. 73)
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Many progressive pedagogies such as constructivism, experiential learning and inquiry learning emphasize the importance of building upon students’ experiences, knowledge, skills and interests (Rowsell, Kosnik & Beck, 2009.)
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Daily Report: 'Digital Inequality' Holds Back Millions in U.S. - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Persistent digital inequality — caused by the inability to afford Internet service, lack of interest or a lack of computer literacy — is also deepening racial and economic disparities in the United States, experts say.
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While the digital revolution definitely benefits those privileged enough to have access, it may increasingly marginalize those who don't.
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Open Up the Ceiling on the Common Core State Standards: Preparing Students ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views
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Online reading defined: locate information, critically evaluate, synthesize information, communicate
Multimodal Composition and the Common Core State Standards - 0 views
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The standards assume that being literate means being digitally literate.
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My goal for this column is to highlight strong examples of digital literacies instruction and technology integration that teachers can remix and customize for their students and teaching contexts
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“One of the biggest communication changes happening today is the shift from the printed word on a page to multiple modes of image, sound, movement, and text on a screen.”
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even some school assessments are starting to shift to computer based
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the world is changing to more technology, and multimodal - education is changing with it
What does it mean to be a digital native? - CNN.com - 0 views
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As technology filters into every corner of the globe and tech cities spring up in some unlikely places from Bangalore to Tel Aviv, a new gulf is emerging to separate the digitally savvy from the disconnected: Poverty.
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In India, over two-thirds of the population live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. But a United Nations report still says that mobile phones are more common than toilets, with nearly half of India's 1.2 billion population armed with a handset.
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hierarchies created by digital literacy and the class systems that will be shaped by access to digital technologies.
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Electronic Collaborators: Learner-centered Technologies for Literacy ... - Google Books - 1 views
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this talks about learner centered technologies as the "tools of intellectual identity" that allow the student to reflect on how they can use to create new knowledge or apply it in their lives.
New Media Literacies - 1 views
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On the other hand, the one life perspective says it is time to help students blend their two lives into an integrated, meaningful approach to living in the digital age.
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It says that the technology that kids use is too expensive, problematic, or distracting to integrate into teaching and learning. It says that issues concerning the personal, social, and environmental impacts of living a digital, technological lifestyle are tangential to a school curriculum. Above all, it says that kids will have to figure out how to navigate the digital world beyond school on their own and puzzle through issues of cyber safety, technological responsibility, and digital citizenship without the help of the educational system.
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It says that if we don't understand that schools are exactly the place for kids to learn how to use technology not only effectively and creatively but also responsibly and wisely, then heaven help us all.
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should we embrace technology in the classroom and teach kids how to use it?
Early Attrition among First Time eLearners: A Review of Factors that Contribute to Drop... - 1 views
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Some have reported attrition from eLearning as high as 70 - 80% (Flood 2002, Forrester 2000, in Dagger & Wade, 2004). Parker (1999) argues that “With the growth of distance education has come the problem of exceedingly high attrition rates”. Citing Carter (1996), she suggests that eLearning student attrition in some institutions is exceeds 40%, while others (Frankola, 2001). Diaz (2002), put it at between 20 - 50%, and Carr (2000), estimate it to be 10% - 20% higher than for traditional on-campus education.
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learners in employment bring a different set of needs, strategies and motivations to the learning process.
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frequently geographically removed from the learning resources, information sources, learner peers and Tutors compared to their on-campus peers
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Looks at why some students don't make it through online courses- many first time online students are unsure what to expect and are just overwhelmed by the whole experience. -
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Attrition among mature adult online learners is affected by sociological, psychological, technical and cognitive factors, critical features of which are the notions of cognitive load and locus of control.
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