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jleemuthart

Using the Internet to Develop Literacy Skills - 1 views

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  • One of the ways in which the internet is used in schools is to support the literacy development of children.
  • New ideas about teaching and supporting children with their literacy development can be read on articles and research papers that are easily accessible on the internet.
  • Many websites offer free, printable resources that can be used to support literacy development.
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  • The internet can also be useful in finding materials that specifically target children who have been identified in having difficulties with their literacy development.
  • For example, some will target reading skills, whilst others will focus on spelling or handwriting.
  • Many children do not enjoy their education or any learning tasks. This may be particularly the case with those who have difficulty in attaining literacy skills. One of the ways in which problem can be combated is to make this fun. The internet can be a particularly useful tool in achieving this. Type literacy games into the toolbar of your search engine and it will come up with a large number of websites that offer activities which are both fun and educational.
  • There are games on the internet that suit all ages and ability levels.
  • The internet can also provide homeschoolers with a wealth of free resources that will ensure that their child has the appropriate materials for learning.
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mandyyim8

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

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literacy children education skills

shared by mandyyim8 on 10 Jun 14 - No Cached
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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
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    A study on children using technology understanding the way they attain literacy skills
juacenta

Interactive Technologies Promote Improved Literacy in Low-Income Children | U.S. Depart... - 3 views

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  • he Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS have released a report entitled “Findings from Ready to Learn 2005-2010” that summarizes the results of independent research conducted under grant funding from the Ready to Learn Television program. The results demonstrate that using combinations of well-designed educational media, including television, websites, and other digital platforms, can be effective in improving literacy skills among low income children, ages 2-8. To access the report, please visit: http://www.cpb.org/rtl/FindingsFromReadyToLearn2005-2010.pdf.
jeremyruby

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

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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
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. 
Stephen Brantley

Rosseta stone expanding to k-12 learning - 1 views

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technology literacy skills internet education learning

shared by Stephen Brantley on 13 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Stephen Brantley on 13 Jun 14
     
    Rosetta stone is another form of how digital literacy has broken through barriers that even some of the greatest teachers are unable to scratch. it shows that digital literacy has brought forth a whole new level of learning to people far and wide with several different languages. there is no compression
Stephen Brantley

Internet contributing to increased literacy of disabled individuals - 0 views

www.everythingspeech.com/...apps-for-speech-therapy

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  • Stephen Brantley on 13 Jun 14
     
    how the use of applications have become a huge part of speech therapy dealing with autistic children and adults among other disabilities and therapies.
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