Sullivan also uses audio recorders to have student-teachers read sets of vocabulary words, then she creates matching PowerPoint presentations with the words and burns them onto DVDs for the students to take home and listen to.
The Disadvantages of Technology on Communication | Science - Opposing Views - 2 views
Group items tagged decline - DGL Week 2 Debate Sources | Diigo Groups - 0 views
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"The Lost Art of Conversation Technology such as text messages and email allows us to communicate in short, carefully-edited sentences that lack immediacy and completely remove the contextual information provided by tone of voice and body language. As a result, people who connect with others primarily through technology might find it difficult to engage in normal conversation, since they may have issues understanding non-verbal cues due to lack of practice with face-to-face interaction that can't be paused, edited or filtered. Deteriorating Language Books, dictionaries and treatises have been written on the vocabulary and peculiarities of online and text messaging slang. This slang can prove extremely confusing for people who are not native English speakers, making it harder to discern the meaning of a sentence; people who regularly text or chat online may end up using it, out of sheer habit, even in situations where it is inappropriate or out of place, such as in business messages or school essays. Enabling Rudeness Because communicating through technology creates a barrier between people that isn't there when speaking face to face, some may find it easier to be rude and aggressive. Insulting or threatening messages from anonymous commenters are par for the course for anybody who regularly publishes online content, and even lack of anonymity doesn't alleviate the issue -- Facebook arguments and the like are also relatively common. Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, suggests that this happens because technology keeps us from having to see the reaction of the person on the receiving end of the message, making it harder to empathize with him. Constant Disruption Technology allows us to always be reachable if we want to be, no matter where we are or what we're doing. Although this can be beneficial, it may also lead to a vicious cycle of stress and anxiety in which people feel pressured to immediately check and answer any i
Enterprising Technology: Using 4G Technology to Improve Literacy Skills - 5 views
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Some positive influences on literacy from texting
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Ah! Oh no! I'll see if I can fix it.
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Okay. Maybe this will work: http://escalate.ac.uk/downloads/8298.pdf
David Crystal - Texts and Tweets: myths and realities - YouTube - 3 views
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Here is a YouTube video with speaker David Crystal, the interviewee from the "Principal of Change" article, as he discusses the myth that technology is inherently weakening our literacy skills.
Education Week: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 3 views
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“New technologies are making amazing inroads into helping students overcome some of the challenges that have prevented people from keeping up with reading,” says Frey. “The technology is just a tool that is engaging and allows [students] to do the instant playback.”
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“The last two years I really looked at the data to see how the kids were doing using all of this technology, and in both the past two years, I ended the year with no children below grade level in reading,” she says. “I do think that technology has a very large part in that.”
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A unique and more "literal" take on how technology helps improve literacy in today's students.
Texting Improving Literacy? | The Principal of Change - 7 views
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As I watched and wrote notes on his talk in this video, there were some amazing, yet seemingly common sense ideas that he shared. Here are some of the quotes that I jotted down: Texting and it’s impact on reading and writing “It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.” “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.” “The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.” “What is texting? Texting is writing and reading.” “The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.”
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These kids do not read,” but he quickly dismisses this as a fallacy.
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In fact, Crystal goes further to say that kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing. Simply put, they do not read and write the same things that we did. Looking at my own situation, I have actually read more “books” in the last little while than I ever have, as I carry around a huge book collection all the time on my iPhone and/or iPad.
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Expert confirms reading or writing in any shape or form will help improve reading and writing skills.
Can social networking boost literacy skills? - 2 views
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Let’s explore these findings in more depth. Teenagers may not be reading books, but they are clearly interested in social networking. So the question becomes whether social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube are harming students or helping them. Social networking sites, which began as social communities, are becoming increasingly important. Barack Obama, for example, used such sites to great advantage during his successful campaign to become United States president. But do social networking sites have any educational benefits? Aside from helping students to make new friends, do social networking sites facilitate learning? The answer seems to be that they do. The National Literacy Trust found that social networking sites and blogs help students to develop more positive attitudes toward writing and to become more confident in their writing abilities. According to one of the studies, 49 per cent of young people believe that writing is “boring.” However, students who use technology-based texts such as blogs have more positive attitudes toward writing. Whereas 60 per cent of bloggers say that they enjoy writing, only 40 per cent of non-bloggers find writing enjoyable.
2 meanings for literacy - 7 views
Yeah that could be good. The speaker seems to drive the point home.
Misinformation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation, which is intended to mislead.[1] When comparing misinformation to disinformation, Jürgen Habermas says that the motives play an active role in the effect the information has. Misinformation may have a less devastating effect in that readers can criticize what they have read and evaluate it as truth or fiction. Authors will also have to give reasoning for their beliefs and support their statements with facts
ERIC - Educational Reform in an Era of Disinformation., 1992-Feb - 3 views
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Criticisms leveled at the American education system are examined in this paper, which asserts that misinformation about Japanese education should not be used as a basis for educational reform in the United States.
Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels - Derek E. Baird :... - 3 views
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Research conducted by The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing.
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The key objectives of this survey was to explore how much young people enjoy writing, what type of writing they engage in, how good at writing they think they are, what they think about writing and what the role of technology is in young people's writing.
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Download the full report (pdf): Young people and writing: Attitudes, behaviour and the role of technology
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Research that shows children who blog and use Facebook have higher literacy skills
Facebook 'can help to improve writing skills' - Wales Online - 3 views
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A study conducted by the National Literacy Trust found that children’s confidence in their writing abilities were boosted by writing blogs and using social networking sites.
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It found that 57% of youngsters who kept blogs said they liked writing compared to 40% of children who did not do so.
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Dr Sangeet Bhullar is executive director of Wise Kids, a Newport-based non-profit organisation promoting safe and positive internet usage among young people. She believes it is important that educators and parents recognise the importance of blogs and social networking sites in both developing children’s writing skills and their knowledge about safe internet usage.
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Research on how blogging encourages students to write.
Can Social Networking Boost Literacy Skills? - 2 views
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Article on social networking boosting literacy skills
Technology helps make language click for students - The Denver Post - 2 views
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just like generations of students before them. But here, they're just as likely to find their subject matter on the Internet as the printed page, as likely to tap compositions and critiques into a netbook — or, in one student's case, an iPhone — as commit them by pencil to a notebook.
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"They know that reading online or reading a textbook is part of their lives," Roberts says. "I don't think they see it as either this or that. I think they're incorporating both."
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Our culture has been moving toward prizing efficiency over taking time to do things," Kleinfeld says, "and we've been moving in that direction for decades." As state standards and national policies embrace the relationship between technology and language, specific skills have emerged as central to new literacies.
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Preston A great link that shows some compelling points about literacy and the flow of technology.
Education Update:Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy:Leveraging Technology to Imp... - 3 views
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In a 2006 article in the Handbook of Writing Research, "The Effects of New Technologies on Writing and Writing Processes," he explains that his series of 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.
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In developing the program, Greig worked with University of Oregon researcher and pioneer in computer-supported studying Lynne Anderson-Inman to test its effectiveness with kindergarten students. Using the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills test, Greig tested the group of students every two weeks on pre-reading and early reading skills, such as naming letters, phonemic awareness, and ease of decoding nonsense words accurately. 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."
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The Reading Buddies program promotes the school's whole child approach, Greig says, by encouraging multiple modalities—such as visuals, tracing letters, auditory, and songs—and requiring students to discuss the material with parents or an adult family member in the home.
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