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Jessica Hernandez

How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development - 0 views

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Literacy technology literacy skills internet learning

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  • Although literacy learning on the Internet involves the basic processes of comprehending and writing text, it differs from print-based literacy
  • Reading and writing text online is highly interactive. Writing becomes more fluent as students engage in online dialogues
  • Information research becomes a critical reading process useful for sorting through volumes of online texts to find and synthesize reliable data, rather than a memorization of the print encyclopedia.
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  • Reading through hypertexts or interactive multimedia is an active process in which the reader develops an internal narrator who synthesizes meaning and decides which link to follow next and why.
  • I had seen and heard much about the impact of computers on literacy, but the Internet seemed to make a quantum leap over word processing and interactive multimedia CD-ROMs.
  • Teachers said they observed that Internet-based activities make reading enjoyable for students
  • Internet use enables students to engage in collaborative discussions and authentic information research experiences that enhance understanding of content.
  • Our results also indicated that higher-order literacy skills, such as organizing information research around a research question, comparing and contrasting, and evaluating and synthesizing information into new and meaningful structures, are important uses of the Internet in literacy education.
  • found three primary areas in which the Internet provides curricular benefits.
  • fostering self-directed literacy learning habits among students, which researchers and teachers indicated are not only vital to, but also achievable through, Internet-based literacy learning.
  • This chapter includes a discussion of the vital role the Internet plays in literacy education for students growing up to live and work in networked cultures of the 21st century as well as historical and cultural technology trends that influence the current nature of literacy and approaches to learning.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I found this through a Google search, but it's an excerpt from an actual book about literacy and the internet, so I thought this would be a credible source to use. Has a lot of good information on a study that was made. APA Citation: McNabb, M. L., Thurber, B. B., Dibuz, B., McDermott, P., & Lee, C. (2006). How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from http://www.learningauge.org/literacy.html
Jessica Hernandez

http://www.ns.literacy.ca/docs/Improving_literacy_with_technology.pdf - 1 views

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internet technology literacy skills Literacy education learning

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  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    > The Internet makes available many applications that help build reading  and writing skills, many of them free. In many cases, applications are so easy to use that learners can use them independently, with perhaps just a little guidance from someone more knowledgeable about reading and computers.  > The benefits are easy to see: when a person uses online resources to develop literacy skills, it also builds confidence in using computers and helps the learner to master digital literacy skills.  > View all the online sources that help with literacy that are available online. 
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I originally found this article through LexisNexis, but it wasn't letting me highlight to bookmark so I found a PDF of the article through Google. http://www.lexisnexis.com.oclc.fullsail.edu:81/lnacui2api/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T20047563701&format=GNBFI&sort=BOOLEAN&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T20047563705&cisb=22_T20047563704&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=397220&docNo=24 APA Citation for Lexis Nexis Link: (January 12, 2011 Wednesday ). Improving literacy with technology. Ottawa Citizen, Retrieved from www.lexisnexis.com/hottopics/lnacademic PDF Citation: The Ottawa Citizen (2011, January 12). Improving literacy with technology. Retrieved June 11, 2014, from http://www.ns.literacy.ca/docs/Improving_literacy_with_technology.pdf
jeremyruby

Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction - 4 views

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literacy literacy skills skills technology

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  • An authentic use of technology is using it as a tool to accomplish a complex task; for example, students who are creating a written report might use the Internet for research, word-processing software to write and format the text, and hypermedia software to add images. Therefore, it makes sense to consider the variety of uses as they illustrate best practices
  • Technologies That Support Students' Reading Development
  • Audiobooks promote students' interest in reading and improve their comprehension of text, notes Beers (1998). They also have been used successfully by students who cannot read traditional printed books because of visual or physical handicaps.
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  • audiobooks help improve children's reading skills
  • electronic books always provide the text in a visual component. Some electronic books incorporate text enhancements, such as definitions of words or background information on ideas. Others offer illustrations that complement the story
  • With access to an Internet-connected computer, students can find a wide variety of free online reading materials, including books, plays, short stories, magazines, and reference materials. This benefit is especially useful for students in schools that have few resources for the acquisition of new books
  • The use of hypermedia to improve student comprehension of text likely is related to its ability to respond to the needs of an individual learner for information, which results in an increased sense of control over the learning environment and higher levels of intrinsic motivation (Becker & Dwyer, 1994)
  • electronic talking books
  • may provide an effective means for increasing decoding skills and reading fluency
  • increase motivation to read as well as promote basic word recognition.
  • an aid to help children improve their comprehension of texts
  • The computer program helped the children learn to discriminate and sequence the sound in words, which improved their word-reading ability.
  • Programmed Reading Instruction
  • word-processing tools such as spelling checkers are useful aids that improve the quality of student writing. Research indicates that students who are comfortable with word processing write longer papers, spend more time writing and revising, and show improved mechanics and word choice (Lehr, 1995)
  • promotes collaborative writing among students
  • Desktop Publishing of Student Work
  • they can gain practice in desktop-publishing their reports, stories, and poems
  • technology encourages students to integrate visual and aural multimedia in their school projects
  • presents a means of self-expression and provides support for development of reading and writing skills.
  • Providing opportunities for online publishing of students' work is another means to motivate student writing
  • promote student writing is through electronic mail (e-mail), electronic bulletin boards, and e-mail lists
  • Writing to an authentic reader has a positive effect on students' writing performance and motivation
  • (Reinking & Bridwell-Bowles, 1996). "Simple exchanges of e-mail can get students writing and reading with the same intensity they bring to the most exciting video game," note Meyer and Rose (2000). "Receiving feedback from across the globe conveys to young children the power of reading and writing and demonstrates their ultimate purpose—to communicate across time and space.
  • Use of the Internet search engines can promote students' research and investigation skills and enable them to locate online information on any possible topic
  • evaluate online information sources is gaining importance as a basic literacy skill
  • Educational technology is nudging literacy instruction beyond its oral and print-based tradition to embrace online and electronic texts as well as multimedia. Computers are creating new opportunities for writing and collaborating. The Internet is constructing global bridges for students to communicate, underscoring the need for rock-solid reading and writing skills. By changing the way that information is absorbed, processed, and used, technology is influencing how people read, write, listen, and communicate.
  • Literacy instruction traditionally refers to the teaching of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In today's digital world, however, technology has contributed to an expanded understanding of literacy. Besides having basic literacy skills, today's students also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing and using information, computing, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media, and understanding and evaluating data. As policymakers and educators ponder what it means to be literate in a digitized society, an array of literacy definitions is emerging
Jessica Hernandez

Literacy | Define Literacy at Dictionary.com - 0 views

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Literacy definition knowledge literacy skills

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  • literacy
  • especially the ability to read and write.
  • a person's knowledge of a particular subject or field: to acquire computer literacy.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    I believe by showing the definition of the term literacy, that it's not only reading and writing, but knowledge in a topic itself, we can prove that the internet has much to offer on learning about specific subjects; when of course making sure the sources are credible. APA Citation: literacy. (n.d.). Dictionary.com Unabridged. Retrieved June 10, 2014, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/literacy
Jessica Hernandez

AN INVESTIGATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' USE OF COMPUTER APPLIC...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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Literacy technology literacy skills computer literacy

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  • computer literacy
  • Results demonstrated that improving the computer literacy of science teachers seems to increase science teachers' computer use and consequently increase their integration of computer applications as an instructional tool. Internet, email, and educational software CDs found to have high percentage in teachers' use of computer applications in the classrooms.
  • Jessica Hernandez on 11 Jun 14
     
    APA Style Citation: Ocak, M., & Akdemir, O. (2008). AN INVESTIGATION OF PRIMARY SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS' USE OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS. Turkish Online Journal Of Educational Technology, 7(4), 54-60. I found this article using one of the library resources.
jleemuthart

Teaching with the Internet - 0 views

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  • increasingly clear that networked, digital technologies provide rapid access to vast amounts of information, increasing the importance of effective information use (Harrison & Stephen, 1996).
  • the globally competitive context in which we find ourselves ensures that new technologies for information and communication will continually be developed, resulting in continuously changing literacies and envisionments for literacy.
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      jleemuthart on 11 Jun 14
       
      Does 'changing' mean 'increasing'?
  • Information economies, global competition, changes in workplace settings, and new national policy initiatives make solid research, especially in educational settings, critically important as we seek insights into preparing children for their literacy futures. We require useful data in order to prepare students for new technologies and new envisionments as we explore the boundaries of an information society, increasingly dependent on networked, digital technologies for information and communication
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  • Newer technologies, permitting greater control by both teachers and students as they navigate rich information resources and construct meanings appropriate to their teaching and learning needs, may permit us to overcome a fundamental paradox clear to many who studied the use of previous technologies in classrooms:
  • students who used hypermedia from an Integrated Learning System, while working within collaborative learning groups, reported significantly more positive attitudes about both math and computer math lessons than did students who worked alone using the same computer software. 
  • appropriately combined images and sound may enhance both the comprehension and the production of tex
  • If technologies continually change in the years ahead, it may become increasingly important to study teachers' envisionments of these technologies for literacy and learning. 
mandyyim8

Internet navigation and information search strategies: how do children are ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The internet can be a powerful pedagogic tool, when used with proper methodology, objectives, clear and realistic goals and harnessing it's added value for learning. This might help both the quality and diversity of classroom learning experiences to be more pertinent, significant, joyful, constructive and contextualized
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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      There are three kinds of internet users: beginners, advanced and experts. Beginner users are those who have basic knowledge on ICT tools, but do not manage on information selection and search systems. As a consequence, they do not successfully slove the information  needs presented to them. The Advanced users have knowledge for using tools, but they are not strategic in searching. This user is known to be a clever person, who easily use the computer at a basic level, enough to move comfortably on the internet, as well as other pieces of commonly used software. While navigating they behave low skilled and they do not know whether by not knowing or even by comfort and frequently operate in the same way. Most of the time, they can complete the searching tasks but, by being low in strategic terms they take more time and effort to achieve them.  Expert user are those who handle searching tools and moreover, they do it strategically, performing such tasks with full domain and comfort on the Internet, performing consciously intended searches, in a complex and flexible way
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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The PdBP is an educational project supported by ICT that aims to unite technology and pedagogy to respond to the need to renew the teaching-learning methods and adaptation of the education system to the demands of society information. 
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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      The results of this study  have allowed the confirmation that the systematic contact along a structure, planned and constant in time educational ICT project provides advantages in several scopes of the student training
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      mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
       
      PdBP students (students that were in the study) is possibly attributable to the level of experience in the present sample of participants, who often use the Internet as part of their school work and who have had many years of exposure and opportunities for informal training in the use of Internet. The results of the students show that this kind of support in infrastructure, Internet connectivity and support for the teachers in their schools can provide a valuable context for teaching and learning Web literacy skills
  • mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14
     
    A study on children using technology understanding the way they attain literacy skills
jeremyruby

Using Technology to Support Literacy | Scholastic.com - 1 views

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  • Storytelling is one of the most ancient forms of communication. Before there were cameras, computers, or even books, stories held the knowledge of all civilization. Even today, students love to read and listen to stories as a way to learn about the world and how it works. What's more, encouraging students to tell stories either orally or in print is a great way to help them practice grammar, expand their vocabulary, and share their ideas with others.In this age of multimedia, a new kind of storytelling has emerged. Digital Storytelling takes the art of storytelling and adds elements of sound, video, and photo images to create a multi-dimensional tale that draws the reader into the story. It's an excellent tool to encourage students to take their writing to a new level as well as a way to bring technology into your curriculum.
jeremyruby

What is the Impact of Technology on Learning? | Education.com - 2 views

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  • Research literature throughout the past decade has shown that technology can enhance literacy development, impact language acquisition, provide greater access to information, support learning, motivate students, and enhance their self-esteem (ACT, 2004; CEO Forum, 2001; Boster et al., 2004; Mann et al., 1999; Tracey & Young, 2006; WestEd, 2002). Indeed, researchers have affirmed that computer technology provides abundant opportunities for students to build or modify their personal knowledge through the rich experiences that technology affords.
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