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Jeffrey Skiles

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  • 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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      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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Jeffrey Skiles

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  • 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. 
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    I'm going to use this as my reference. Im going to talk about how specific disabilities are improved by certain iPhone and other apple products.
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    Example #5: A teacher of students learning to read JoAnn is a second-grade teacher. She has a number of students who, for various reasons, are experiencing difficulty with reading. Each week, JoAnn posts on the school website a list of 20 vocabulary words that will be used in upcoming language arts lessons. Parents can then download these words and use them at home. One of her students, Philip, has been diagnosed with an audio processing disorder that causes him to mishear and subsequently mispronounce parts of words, which is slowing down his ability to decode new words and develop reading fluency. Ongoing pull-out sessions with a speech and language specialist are having an impact, and Philip's parents are working closely with him at home using suggested word games and computer programs. Philip's father, George, is an artist who has begun loading the weekly vocabulary and other words into a flash card iPhone application he found on the App Store. George creates silly images (photos, clip art, drawings) on his computer, records an audio pronunciation of the word to accompany each card, and loads the resulting audio and images onto his iPhone. Philip loves playing with this personalized deck on his father's iPhone. Whenever they are in the car or doing errands, Philip eagerly plays with the flash cards, testing his ability to recognize and pronounce each word. JoAnn has been intrigued by how many students in her class love the idea of making their own multimedia flash cards. She applied for a grant and used the funds to purchase 10 iPod touch devices for the class. She has begun expanding the cards and audio for certain target words to create customized homework decks that directly address specific students' learning challenges with decoding and phonemic awareness. She has hundreds of images and examples to use from worksheets and has also invited her colleagues to help build out this literacy and language arts tool. JoAnn's students also use the iPod unit
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  • For instance, assessments of the ability of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disoder (ADHD) to function in a classroom have involved the use of virtual reality (VR) technology.6
  • Virtual classrooms allow for the simulation of the mulitiple concurrent demands of the classroom in an individualized assessment scenario.
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  • students' disabilities ranged from speech and language impairments to mental retardation, and more than half were described as having a specific learning disability due to a psychological disorder.8 Children with disabilities vary with respect to the type and number of disabilities they have, and their disabilities vary in cause, degree, and the effect they have on the child's educational progress. Although children with disabilities are a very diverse group, data describing the demographic characteristics of students with disabilities suggest the following:   More than half of all students receiving special services are males. Most are in elementary or middle school. Most have no obvious disability; they have problems that are primarily academic, emotional, social, or behavioral.
  • Teachers have found that technological innovations can help level the playing field for special needs students and enable these students to succeed in the regular classroom.12 Technology for students with special needs is defined by federal law as “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.”13 This broad definition encompasses a wide variety of both high-end and low-end technologies that have proven to be useful for improving educational options for students with disabilities. The following sections describe how various applications of computer technology can help meet the individual needs of students with disabilities and enable them to function effectively in the school setting.
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    The Use Of Computer Technology to help students with special needs Be More Literate.
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      Students with learning disabilities and emotional problems account for nearly 60% of all children receiving special services in schools today, and their numbers are rising each year.4 These students often have persistent problems learning and behaving appropriately in school, problems that may become apparent only after teachers work with the students for weeks or months. Such students are likely to be given a broad label indicating only that their academic and social progress is unsatisfactory because of a disability,14 and their problems often persist despite a teacher's efforts to meet their students' needs within the regular program.
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  • Digital literacy
  • It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes.
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  • 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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