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Jeffrey Skiles

The Importance of Teaching Digital Literacy to Students - 0 views

  • 1) Digital Literacy Promotes Higher-Order Thought Skills Whether your state is transitioning to the Common Core Standards or an independent state standards set, the key movement is to steer instruction away from memorization and, instead, promote the acquisition of higher-order skills (analysis, cooperation, creating, etc.). Digital literacy skills are transmutable from the tech world to real world and meet many of the basic needs required by today’s learning standards. Instilling strong levels of digital literacy creates great avenues to learn and practice these higher-order skills, ranging from students working collectively via a Google Doc to developing the ability to analyze a web source’s credibility (and everything in between).
  • 2) Digital Literacy Breaks Down the “Walls” of Learning and Information The traditional pen-and-pencil system presents tons of barriers to student access and connection, whether it be the plight of a master narrative, language disconnect, etc. By instilling adept digital skills, students can break through these “walls” and become ‘producers’ of knowledge. Allowing students to find their own learning resources (via the web, cloud-based learning tools, etc.) and analyze the sources’ benefit creates a true personalized learning environment. Students are no longer given a static text set that dictates how and what they should learn. Instead, developed digital literacy skills afford students the ability to seek out and utilize knowledge resources that help them create a personal learning connection.
  • 3) Digital Literacy Prepares Students for a Digital Post K-12 World Not to be lost in all of the higher-order thinking and personalized learning benefits is the fact that the workplace is becoming increasingly digitized. Much of our goals as educators are geared around ensuring students have the tools they need to become successful Post K-12 citizens. That now includes having familiarity with technology. Whether it be working with Microsoft Office, understanding the nuances of a Windows/Mac operating system, or even the simple use of a mouse and keyboard, it’s vital for students to be ready to roll when sat down in front of a digital device. In today's climate, gaining familiarity with digital device functions and features is now just as important as learning to read and write. 
Jeffrey Skiles

Digital literacy can boost employability and improve student experience | Higher Educat... - 0 views

  • The nature of knowledge is changing and, in this digital age, our definition of basic literacy urgently needs expanding. With an estimated 90% of UK jobs requiring some level of IT competency, the notion of digital literacy – those capabilities that equip an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society – is one that needs to be taken seriously by colleges and universities.
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Digital Literacy for Kids with LD « Smart Kids With LD Smart Kids With LD - 0 views

  • The moment a student is diagnosed with a reading and/or writing disability, remediation should begin, and that remediation should be paired with instruction through accessible digital media. That media can be pictures, videos, and especially electronic reading
  • t is critically important that we ensure that students—particularly those with learning and other disabilities—develop strong digital literacy skills so that they can fully participate in secondary and postsecondary education and in the careers that await them.
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What is Digital Literacy? - Enhancing Digital Literacy - New York City Department of Ed... - 0 views

  • Digital literacy
  • It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes.
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Promoting the Benefits of Digital Literacy - 1 views

  • The City of Boston’s Department of Information Technology has partnered with a nonprofit called Open Air Boston to provide digital literacy training, subsidized netbooks or mobile devices and low-cost Internet access to low-income middle and high school students and their families. The city and Open Air Boston are using BTOP funding to bring the program – called Technology Goes Home – to 62 middle and high schools and 35 community sites. Technology Goes Home is equipping Boston teenagers with valuable digital literacy skills that will help them compete in a job market that takes these skills for granted. With training offered in Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali and other languages, the program is also bringing parents and other family members online. http://www.techgoeshome.org/
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Digital vs. Traditional Literacy - 2 views

  • Students are required more than ever to obtain the competence and skills of digital literacy in order to keep up to date with the demands of an ever-growing and changing society.
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How Can we Embed Digital Literacy in the Classroom? - Purposeful Technology-Constructin... - 1 views

  • Motivates students in their learning due to their enjoyment and ease of use with various technological mediums.Reaches students of various learning styles. Technology use applies to and compliments  Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.Allows students to create and design their own unique products reflective of their personalities and learning needs/styles.Encourages students to manipulate media to construct their own meaning.Enables students to easy share their learning with teachers, families and peers.Gives students the chance to explore technological mediums which in inevitable increase job skills that employers look for in the workforce.
Jeffrey Skiles

The Effects of Visual Literacy and the Perception of Digital Alteration in ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      Previous studies have found that news photographs provide positive effects for newspapers. In general, research on the effects of pictures on text processing show that memory can be improved when the picture is present (Levie & Lentz, 1982; Mendelson & Thorson,  2003). News photographs provide a "point of entry" into newspaper pages (Garcia & Stark,  1991), provide greater enjoyment and perceived attractiveness of the medium (Wanta & Gao,  1995), and help the newspaper look more aesthetically pleasing (Rivers & Matthews, 1988)
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Education Update:Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy:Leveraging Technology to Imp... - 1 views

  • teachers have found that using technology may help address students' specific learning needs.
  • three studies of 9- and 10-year-olds with severe spelling problems showed that these students' legible words increased from 55 to 85 percent, and their correctly spelled words rose from 42 to 75 percent.
  • "Students with writing difficulties are able to produce a text that looks good, and they can go back and fix things without introducing new mistakes."
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  • letters into the computer, can also help students dramatically improve the legibility and spelling of their writing.
  • any students having trouble with writing fluency can benefit from teachers integrating technology into the classroom. And sometimes tried-and-true technology works the best.
  • After six weeks of using Reading Buddies, Greig says, "We saw kids who had been operating at the 10th and 20th percentiles moving up to the 40th and 50th percentiles." At the end of the 10-week pilot, Grieg says, "[Students] were at or above the test's benchmark."
  • To help students who have auditory processing problems or dyslexia, schools are using various computer technologies to make students more aware of the sounds of words when others speak or when students themselves read aloud.
  • The technology "builds those auditory and language skills" of students, allowing them, generally, to be more receptive to learning because typically 80 percent of the instructional day relies on auditory information
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