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Education Update:Leveraging Technology to Improve Literacy:Leveraging Technology to Imp... - 0 views

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  • Despite the lack of data showing that technology has a tremendous effect in the classroom, teachers have found that using technology may help address students' specific learning needs. Charles MacArthur, a special education professor at the University of Delaware, explains that students who have learning disabilities, including dyslexia, typically need help with transcription processes to produce text, spell, and punctuate correctly. However, any students having trouble with writing fluency can benefit from teachers integrating technology into the classroom. And sometimes tried-and-true technology works the best.
  • To help students who have auditory processing problems or dyslexia, schools are using various computer technologies to make students more aware of the sounds of words when others speak or when students themselves read aloud. At Bridges Academy in Winter Springs, Fla., 2nd through 12th graders with learning disabilities use technology and receive regular instruction over the course of two to four years "to close the academic gap," with the goal of mainstreaming them back into local public schools, says Executive Director Jacky Egli, who has worked in the field of learning disabilities for 30 years.
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How to Use the Internet to Enhance Literacy Development - 0 views

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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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    " 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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