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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