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israelj

Troy's Statement - 5 views

To be added to the 3 articles submitted. The definition of literacy is: "ability to read and write, reading/writing proficiency; competence or knowledge in a specified area." Bearing this in min...

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cydney johnson

Statements - 19 views

LITERACY AND MULTI MEDIA In the paper "LEARNING WITH TECHNOLOGY" Evidence that technology can and will support learning. The author supports the argument that students learn at a greater rate w...

started by heinrosie on 15 May 14 6 follow-ups, last by cydney johnson on 15 May 14
israelj

How The Internet Saved Literacy - Forbes - 1 views

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  • How The Internet Saved Literacy
  • For students in Jerome McGann’s literature seminars at the University of Virginia, to read and interpret Jenny, a poem by the 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is to live it. McGann doesn’t require that his students show up to class dressed in 19th century garb. Instead, they must take on a role as one of the poem’s characters through an interactive Web-based software application called Ivanhoe, which McGann and his colleagues developed in 2001.
  • Students are free to change their characters’ actions, add stanzas and delete others. As long as they provide substantive justification–historical and psychological–all changes to the text are justified and encouraged, says McGann. Using the software, which was developed with the help of the university’s computer scientists, students rewrite the poem and keep role journals, chronicling their journeys deep into the recesses of their characters’ minds. To play the game effectively, they must react to each other’s interpretations as well. “Collaboration is the demand laid on you by this technology,” says McGann. “Classroom work is typically solo. Ivanhoe encourages you to work interactively with others.”
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  • The Internet has become so pervasive that to be truly literate in 2006 demands some degree of technological fluency or at least familiarity. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 73% of American adults had used the Internet or e-mail as of March 2006. For the first time, the National Association of Adult Literacy—the most wide-ranging U.S. study of literacy—will test computer literacy in its 2008 survey that measures overall literacy. With such a large proportion of reading and writing taking place on the Internet, literacy has changed from a solitary pursuit into a collective one.
  • “You aren’t just a consumer of text anymore,” says Margaret Mackey, a professor at the University of Alberta’s Library and Information Studies Department. Reading now demands an almost instantaneous response, whether through commenting on a blog or writing a review on Amazon . The Internet has shortened the feedback loop on writing and has made readers more active participants, says Matt Kirschenbaum, an assistant professor of English at the University of Maryland. “Reading is more intimately associated with writing,” he says.
  • This was not how it was supposed to have turned out. A number of studies have been released that suggested a negative correlation between Internet use and reading. Fortunately, those studies are now considered to have been unduly alarmist, according to several experts in the field. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts released a study titled “Reading at Risk” (the data was collected in 2002), saying that fewer than half of American adults read literature. “To lose this human capacity–and all the diverse benefits it fosters–impoverishes both cultural and civic life,” said the foundation chair Dana Gioia when the survey was released. The study failed to take into account whether people are actually reading more non-fiction works now.
  • Indeed, despite fears that the Internet would stunt the reading of books, the sale of books has continued to trend upward over the past several years. In 2005, sales jumped 9.9%, to $25 billion, according to the Association of American Publishers.
anonymous

A few Volunteers - 5 views

I was voted the group representative a few days ago during the first live meeting we all had.... I definitely got that task under control. I do not work tonight, so I am available all night for us...

started by heinrosie on 15 May 14 1 follow-up, last by anonymous on 15 May 14
Kenneth Powell

Beyond Literacy | Gaming as a Literacy - 1 views

www.beyondliteracy.com/gaming-as-a-literacy

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  • gaming is different but it is still embedded in the construct of alphabet or notational literacy.
  • “If we think first in terms of semiotic domains and not in terms of reading and writing as traditionally conceived, we can say that people are (or are not) literate (partially or fully) in a domain if they can recognize (the equivalent of ‘reading’) and/or produce (the equivalent of ‘writing’) meanings in the domain.” Video games, “situate meaning in a multimodal space through embodied experiences to solve problems and reflect on the intricacies of the design of imagined worlds and the design of both real and imagined social relationships and identities in the modern world.
  • The immersive nature of digital games (think of virtual reality generally or something like Xbox 360 Kinect in particular) occurs the body and the mind are fully engaged in making meaning both by “reading” the game and creating components or actions (“writing”).
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  • While Gee has established digital games as a new literacy, Jane McGonigal has taken that idea and begun to develop the canon, the literature, of this new literacy
  • games as a tool to solve substantial problems and effect profound change.
  • McGonigal thinks of games as a tool and a grammar to articulate ideas and to generate and communicate new ideas. Her games, like Evoke or World Without Oil, are alternate reality games designed to engage diverse and distributed players in gaming modalities to explore difficult problems and propose (and model i.e. play out) potential solutions.
  • These are games, not merely as entertainment, but as a toolset (an alphabet) to create meaning. Perhaps the most intriguing of these is Foldit; a game created at the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington about protein folding, a highly complex problem.
  • Playing the game creates new solutions. Playing the game repeatedly refines those solutions, assists others, and furthers the research group’s knowledge and the number of useful outcomes. Rather than host a conference or set up a lab or publish a series of papers, these researchers initiated a globally accessible game and then simply watched what the participants came up with.
  • While the gaming experience is powerful and the effectiveness of games as a means to understand and be understood is undeniable, it is not sufficiently separate from its foundation in alphabetic literacy to qualify as a post-literate or emerging post-literate modality. However, the immersive and hypnotic nature of games suggests the kind of experience that might be a feature of post-literacy.
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mikaloh

Mike's Statement - 4 views

The concept of literacy is wide ranged, but Wikipedia's definition states that "literacy is the ability to read and write". With that into account not contributing technology, in partial, with the ...

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heinrosie

How Slang Affects Students in the Classroom - US News - 0 views

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  • "They do not capitalize words or use punctuation anymore," Wood, a teacher with 10 years of in-class experience, says. "Even in E-mails to teachers or [on] writing assignments, any word longer than one syllable is now abbreviated to one."
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      heinrosie on 14 May 14
       
      This is a possible rebuttal against our statement.
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    Possible rebuttal against statement. found by Rosie
heinrosie

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:One-to-One Laptop Programs Are No Silver Bu... - 0 views

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  • Overall, however, most large-scale evaluations have found mixed or no results for one-to-one initiatives. After five years of implementation of the largest one-to-one initiative in the United States, Maine's statewide program, evaluations found little effect on student achievement—with one exception, writing, where scores edged up 3.44 points (in a range of 80 points) in five years (Silvernail & Gritter, 2007).
  • heinrosie on 14 May 14
     
    paper saying that literacy skills have improved.
Kenneth Powell

The Literacy of Gaming: What Kids Learn From Playing | Mediashift | PBS - 1 views

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  • Play games. Otherwise how can you have meaningful conversations about them? Not learning how to play games would be akin to talking about “The Lord of the Flies” without having learned to read.
  • Play games. Otherwise how can you have meaningful conversations about them? Not learning how to play games would be akin to talking about “The Lord of the Flies” without having learned to read.
  • Play games. Otherwise how can you have meaningful conversations about them? Not learning how to play games would be akin to talking about “The Lord of the Flies” without having learned to read.
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  • Play games. Otherwise how can you have meaningful conversations about them? Not learning how to play games would be akin to talking about “The Lord of the Flies” without having learned to read.
  • When people learn to play videogames,” according to James Paul Gee, “they are learning a new literacy.
  • They are learning a new interactive language that grants them access to virtual worlds that are filled with intrigue, engagement and meaningful challenges.
  • As our commerce and culture migrates further into this emerging digital ecosystem it becomes more critical that we develop digital literacy, of which videogames inhabit a large portion.
  • Gee, a linguist and professor of literacy studies at Arizona State University, thinks we should expand the traditional definition of literacy beyond reading and writing because language isn’t the only communication system available in today’s world. And there is no better example of a new form of media that communicates distinctive types of meaning than videogames.
  • Games are fun, but their real value lies in leveraging play and exploration as a mode of learning the literacy of problem-solving, which lowers the emotional stakes of failing.
  • This doesn’t mean that game-based problem-solving should eclipse learning content, but I think we are increasingly seeing that a critical part of being literate in the digital age means being able to solve problems through simulations and collaboration.
  • Mistakes are how one figures out what doesn’t work and provides the impetus to zero in on what might.
  • Conversely, the game of modern education revolves around right and wrong answers. Now this kind of learning may be appropriate in some instances, say, when you want a student to remember the capitals of countries. That method is important, but it can only take you so far. It certainly can’t penetrate more sophisticated, and I would argue, more important questions, such as: How does geography shape culture?
  • Yet if we are not prepared to be wrong than we won’t be able to come up with anything creative or solve complex problems. Videogames, on the other hand, embed trial and error into the foundation of gameplay.
  • “policymakers interested in preparing students for success in the 21st-century economy would do well … to appreciate how skills developed through navigating virtual environments might pay off in the workplace … [and how] the new skills and dispositions of the gamer generation will transform the workplace. The gamer generation will push for work environments to incorporate more virtual aspects in fields, such as market analysis, and social and economic modeling. Gamers, for example, have abundant experience making big decisions, coordinating resources, and experimenting with complex strategies in game-based simulations.”
  • Although videogames have great potential to be powerful vehicles for learning, there is no guarantee this will happen
  • Play games. Otherwise how can you have meaningful conversations about them? Not learning how to play games would be akin to talking about “The Lord of the Flies” without having learned to read.
  • Connect games to books, movies, TV and the world around them. By thinking about games beyond their boundaries we can cultivate pattern recognition across media platforms and parlay the problem-solving of gaming into the real world.
  • Have your students or kids collaborate with other peers to analyze and interpret games, as well share strategies
  • collaboration and networking kids can learn to enhance their own perspectives, ideas and, perhaps, contribute to a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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Kenneth Powell

Video games help promote literacy - 0 views

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  • Believe it or not, video games help promote literacy, a skill which encompasses not just reading and writing, but also the ability to understand maps, body language and spoken words
  • Video games help exercise decision-making and critical thinking skills that a person doesn’t necessarily get from passive entertainment.
  • Players are taken through these famous stories and are required to problem solve and work together to get to the next level. These games are filled with goofy humor and are loyal to their source material.
  • Kenneth Powell on 15 May 14
     
    Important parts of this article are highlighted yo!!!!!!
heinrosie

PDF.js viewer - 0 views

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  • heinrosie on 15 May 14
     
    A Paper Written by Marc Prensky to support our statement.
magrazel

Intro & Conclusion---- Digital Technology: The Greenhouse of Education Today - 5 views

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: THE GREENHOUSE OF EDUCATION TODAY Intro: Technology in terms of increasing literacy skills is a debatable topic. Not because it hasn't worked, but because when it...

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ryano5643

Can Texting Help With Spelling? | Scholastic.com - 2 views

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Texting literacy literacy skills skills writing education

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  • A British study published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning found a positive correlation between texting and literacy, concluding that texting was “actually driving the development of phonological awareness and reading skill in children.” In other words, contrary to what you might think when faced with “creative” usages such as ur for your, 2 for to, and w8 for wait, kids who text may be stronger readers and writers than those who don’t.
  • To abbreviate message as msg or tonight as 2nite, you have to understand how sounds and letters work, or how words are put together. Texting encourages students to think about these relationships, helping them to understand how words are built. A study in the Australian Journal of Educational Development & Psychology showed that texting improves spelling because it increases these phonological skills.
  • Abbreviations are a natural part of the evolution of language. OK, the most popular American word in the world, was invented during the age of the telegraph, because it was concise. Teachers found OK as inappropriate then as they do c u l8r today. But OK found its way into our lexicon soon enough, and these days we couldn’t do without it. The most popular textisms are already becoming official: The Oxford English Dictionary added OMG last year. New technologies—from the printing press to the telegraph to the cell phone—inevitably inspire new spelling, new abbreviations, and new words.
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