How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development - 0 views
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Although literacy learning on the Internet involves the basic processes of comprehending and writing text, it differs from print-based literacy in significant ways. Text, as defined in this book, includes sources of digital information in print or multimedia formats. Reading and writing text online is highly interactive. Writing becomes more fluent as students engage in online dialogues involving short writing–reading cycles. Online drafting and revising involve a social collaborative process between a writer and his or her immediate audience. Information research becomes a critical reading process useful for sorting through volumes of online texts to find and synthesize reliable data, rather than a memorization of the print encyclopedia. Reading through hypertexts or interactive multimedia is an active process in which the reader develops an internal narrator who synthesizes meaning and decides which link to follow next and why.
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We found three primary areas in which the Internet provides curricular benefits. These were information research, writing and publishing, and participating in online learning communities. We (McNabb, Hassel, et al., 2002) also discovered prevalent instructional practices such as: designing the Internet-based activities to help meet the diverse needs of students by engaging them through personal interests; customizing the teaching–learning cycle in ways that motivate students to take more responsibility for their learning; and fostering self-directed literacy learning habits among students, which researchers and teachers indicated are not only vital to, but also achievable through, Internet-based literacy learning.
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Teachers said they observed that Internet-based activities make reading enjoyable for students, foster active reading, and facilitate reading fluency. They also stated that Internet use enables students to engage in collaborative discussions and authentic information research experiences that enhance understanding of content.
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Lee Rinna - Internet Resource
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" We found three primary areas in which the Internet provides curricular benefits. These were information research, writing and publishing, and participating in online learning communities. We (McNabb, Hassel, et al., 2002) also discovered prevalent instructional practices such as: designing the Internet-based activities to help meet the diverse needs of students by engaging them through personal interests; customizing the teaching-learning cycle in ways that motivate students to take more responsibility for their learning; and fostering self-directed literacy learning habits among students, which researchers and teachers indicated are not only vital to, but also achievable through, Internet-based literacy learning."