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Susan O'Day

Tech Teaches: Screen Time Isn't Necessarily a Bad Thing | Edutopia - 0 views

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Reading technology Webquest Computers

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  • Technology promises to play a crucial role in helping adolescents cope with reading and writing deficits, at the same time teaching digital literacy, an essential skill in the world beyond school.
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      Technology promises to play a crucial role in helping adolescents cope with reading and writing deficits, at the same time teaching digital literacy, an essential skill in the world beyond school.
  • new literacies that kids are engaging in
  • any drawbacks of computer technology are far outweighed by its potential for aiding struggling readers, engaging kids in their learning, and leveraging instructional time to target students' individual needs.
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      Susan O'Day on 15 Oct 10
       
      any drawbacks of computer technology are far outweighed by its potential for aiding struggling readers, engaging kids in their learning, and leveraging instructional time to target students' individual needs.
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  • expose struggling readers to stimulating content that would be out of reach to them through print alone
  • interactive nature of the Internet allows readers to choose their own pathways through information in personally relevant and interesting ways.
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      Because computers enable kids to access text through multiple media, such as image, audio and video, they can dynamically support students' reading and expose struggling readers to stimulating content that would be out of reach to them through print alone, says Dalton. Julie Coiro, a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, adds that the interactive nature of the Internet allows readers to choose their own pathways through information in personally relevant and interesting ways.
  • Computers also can engage students in a powerful way, broadening the opportunities to connect to a world outside school,
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      Computers also can engage students in a powerful way, broadening the opportunities to connect to a world outside school,
  • Another tool for engagement is WebQuest, a lesson model developed at California's San Diego State University in the mid-1990s in which students embark on a guided inquiry by way of the Internet, beginning with an open-ended problem and culminating in an original solution.
  • What also needs to be investigated, they say, are ways to teach the sophisticated skills needed to navigate information and communication online.
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      But researchers warn that educators should not focus simply on the ways that technology can teach traditional reading skills. What also needs to be investigated, they say, are ways to teach the sophisticated skills needed to navigate information and communication online.
  • Without proper supervision, explains Moje, some readers could become dependent on high-tech crutches to understand text.
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      Susan O'Day on 15 Oct 10
       
      Without proper supervision, explains Moje, some readers could become dependent on high-tech crutches to understand text.
  • The International Reading Association goes so far in its position statement on technology to say students "have a right" to instruction that develops critical forms of literacy for using computers and the Web.
  • The key benefits of computer-based reading lessons are simple: They help students practice reading at their own pace and give individualized instruction and immediate feedback -- all when the teacher might be occupied helping other kids,
  • a group of experts convened by Congress in 1997 to assess various reading-instruction methods -- found generally positive results in the existing research and called for more study on the best uses of technology for teaching.
  • To be digitally literate, Leu argues, students must identify an important problem or question, pinpoint information within an unchecked world of resources, critically evaluate material for bias and reliability, synthesize information from disparate texts, and effectively communicate through email, blogs, and other forums. Those aren't technology issues to be relegated to computer class, he says; those are literacy issues. Both books and computers are technologies for reading.
Tawnya Woronec

Creative Ways to Use Podcasts in the Classroom - 0 views

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podcast technology Engagement

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  • greater student engagement
  • These multiple strategies engage students in learning through the opportunity to express their opinions, argue points of view, and share ideas.
  • Podcasts offer the ability to: reinforce concepts studied in class for both auditory and visual learners.reinforce writing and reading skills as students prepare their own podcast scripts. increase parent communication.conduct alternative assessments of students, beyond the traditional tests and reports. provide another teaching and learning strategy for helping students be successful in the subject they are studying.
Tawnya Woronec

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Motivation literacy 21st century skills

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  • If we want an engaged citizenry, then we need engaged readers.
  • Saying we want to nurture children to be lifelong readers has become a cliché. While most educators do want their students to fall in love with reading, and especially with reading books, it would be naive to believe that we’re practicing what we preach.
  • How can we claim that we’re educating chil- dren for the 21st century when students today are reading the same texts — and the same kinds of texts — that students read 50 years ago?
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  • If we want to nurture lifelong readers and thinkers, to cultivate social responsibility, to make reading relevant to the 21st century, and to bring joy to reading, then the status quo will not suffice.
  • And simply reading a text doesn’t mean students are intellectually engaged. Much of their school reading is done with little thought. They read to get the assignment done as quickly as possible. Why do we perpetuate this school culture of fake reading when our world is filled with so many astonishing things to read?
  • One of the most disheartening things about the reading students do in school is that it is sopredictable. As students enter their classrooms each day, they al- ready know what they’ll be reading: another novel similar to the last novel, another story out of their lit- erature anthology, another chapter in the social stud- ies textbook, another five-paragraph essay. When they leave school at the end of the day, they know the texts they’ll be reading the following day and the fol- lowing year. How often are students genuinely and happily surprised by a new assigned reading?
Tawnya Woronec

EBSCOhost: More than Machines - 0 views

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technology integration laptops technology Engagement

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  • Overall, 66 percent of Chesterfield students exceeded their expected subtest scores in reading on the Measures of Academic Progress assessment, and 48 percent exceeded their normative growth expectation in math. Even an improvement in behavior is credited to STEP. There were 361 disciplinary incidents in the Chesterfield district during the project year, whereas 823 incidents were recorded a year earlier.
  • We believe that the laptop technology served to enhance student motivation, resulting in a more productive learning environment."
  • Among the school's seventh-graders, the pass rate on the reading portion of the TAKS rose from 62 percent to 75 percent, and on math from 51 percent to 65 percent.
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  • founded on strong leadership, professional development, increased broadband access, and project-based learning in the core curriculum areas.
  • The rise in student engagement is reflected in the testing data: Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) reading, writing, and math scores for Southern Columbia 11th-graders have increased, including an 8 percent increase in math scores over the two years since CFF was implemented.
Tawnya Woronec

Technology in Reading Instruction - 0 views

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technology education reading 21st century skills

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    How can technology be used? Will it increase student achievement, motivation and engagement?
Tawnya Woronec

MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages - 1 views

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comics web2.0 storytelling writing Engagement

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    great for students to create scenarios to practice current lesson
Tawnya Woronec

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

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voki education technology

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  • Voki lesson plan database: Find out how other educators are using Voki in their classrooms
  • Text-to-speech: Create Vokis from text in 25 languages
  • I have found throughout the years that using Voki helps my students improve their oral proficiency in the target language and that it’s often the shy one at the end of the classroom who comes up with the most impressive piece of spoken language.
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  • engaging
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