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Pamela Stevens

Education Today - Reading with iPads - the difference makes a difference - 0 views

  • generally positive attitude
  • 16% of the total group reporting they spent no time reading for enjoyment.
  • majority
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  • believed strongly that reading was important.
  • boys read frequently online.
  • 40%) reported they never or almost never use online chat or online messages.
  • he low group read more regularly than the other two groups.
  • strong correlation between higher levels of achievement and a more favourable attitude to reading,
  • end of each text, an achievement test was administered to the two classes.
  • results of these tests showed little difference between the ability levels, with the exception of the low group’s responses to the “Knowledge” category.
  • When using the iPad, the scores of the students in this group were lower than when they were reading a traditional text
  • two-thirds of the students recorded negative or no growth when using the iPad.
  • the same for a little over 50% of the Analysis category
  • howed majority positive growth was the Low group
Pamela Stevens

NCTE's Position on the Teaching of English: Assumptions and Practices - 0 views

  • read whole texts in their original versions, sharing written and oral meanings, not simply supplying workbook answers or responses to predetermined questions
  • learn grammar and usage by studying how their own language works in context
  • experience the interaction of reading, speaking, listening, and writing as reasoning and communicating acts
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