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Cally Baker

How do special education students benefit from technology? - 0 views

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  • Most students with disabilities can and do benefit from technology in the classroom. Incorporating technology increases students’ motivation to learn and personalizes lessons to a student’s individual needs. Even the students with the most severe and profound disabilities can use assistive technology to join a classroom of typical students, and their potential can be reached in ways we didn’t have before.
  • Holzberg, C.S., “Technology in special education,” Technology and Learning 14(7)(1994): 18-21. Kirk, S., Gallagher, J., Coleman, M.R., & Anastasiow, N., Educating exceptional children (Florence, KY: Wadsworth, 2008).
  • Technology can be the great equalizer in a classroom with diverse learners. Whereas teachers can find it difficult to differentiate instruction for 30+ students in one class, all with different needs and abilities, “assistive technology” (devices and software to assist students with disabilities) can often help teachers personalize lessons and skills enhancement to each child
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  • Children with learning disabilities often have better technology skills than their teachers and are drawn to computers and other gadgets, so using them in the classroom makes perfect sense.
  • , technology can give access to learning opportunities previously closed to them
  • E-readers help students turn book pages without applying dexterity, and voice adaptive software can help students answer questions without needing to write
  • Assistive technology is not always just for students with disabilities; it can be used to help any student with motivation, academic skills, and social development.
  • Most students with disabilities can and do benefit from technology in the classroom. Incorporating technology increases students’ motivation to learn and personalizes lessons to a student’s individual needs. Even the students with the most severe and profound disabilities can use assistive technology to join a classroom of typical students, and their potential can be reached in ways we didn’t have before.
Brandon Piccione

Defining Dyslexia and how it can help - 1 views

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    Tips on how computers can help
Aaron Hayes

Literacy Instruction with Digital and Media Technologies | Reading Rockets - 1 views

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  • As new literacies that include digital and media technologies evolve, preparing students to understand and adjust to these literacy demands is critical to current and future expectations for pleasure and work (International Reading Association, 2001; Leu, Mallette, Karchmer, & Kara-Soteriou, 2005)
  • The Internet has caused educators to confront issues related to new technologies, as previous technological innovations have never been adopted so rapidly and in so many places simultaneously. The Internet allows for immediate dissemination of information through the click of a single link, for instance (Warschauer, 2006). Moreover, Internet access has become common in schools. In 2005, approximately 95% of K-12 classrooms in the United States had Internet access (Parsad & Jones, 2005). Additionally, 80% of kindergartners use computers and over 50% of children younger than 9 years old use the Internet (Goldberg, Russell, & Cook, 2003). However, the average of U.S. students' use of computers in school was 12 minutes per week (Wells & Lewis, 2006). This descriptive data points out that computers and Internet access are available to students, but most students do not have sufficient time in school with this technology to develop new literacies.
Brandon Piccione

More useful tools - 0 views

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    Its not all about if you know everything in literacy, technology helps you perfect your flaws.
Brandon Piccione

Apps - 2 views

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    Apps that help with literacy.
Cally Baker

Result List: Social Impacts of digital media: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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    pg 10 talks about how digital media has opened a new era of learning.
Kenneth Simpson

Definitive Change Ahead. Kenneth Simpson - 1 views

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    The fact that the actual definition of literacy has been changed to accommodate technological learning, proves in itself, that technology has had a positive impact on literacy. Technology is used every single day more and more, and that means the impact of technology will have an even greater positive impact on literacy in the future as it did today.
Brandon Piccione

What is the Impact of Technology on Learning? | Education.com - 2 views

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  • One study, The Reporter Project, used multimedia technology to enhance sixth-grade students’ information gathering and writing skills. The Reporter Project was developed and tested in sixth-grade classrooms for two years and showed that students made statistically significant improvement in their recognition and use of elements such as main ideas, supporting details, and cause and effect relationships. Their writing was also more cohesive than their control-group peers who were taught using similar materials and sequences but without the use of technology.
  • Numerous other studies demonstrate that students who learn in existing multimedia and/or hypertext environments show greater gains in areas of language development than students who learn in more traditional environments (Ayersman, 1996; Boone & Higgins, 1992; Charney, 1994; Martinez-Lage, 1997). Studies investigating the impact of student construction of hypermedia environments on language development came to similar conclusions (Goetze, 2000; Lehrer et al., 1994; Nikolova, 2002).
Brandon Piccione

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

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Leveraging Literacy

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  • of tools that can improve students' reading fluency.
  • eachers have found that using technology may help address students' specific learning needs.
  • He points to advances in speech recognition technology
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  • 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.
  • word-prediction software, which generates lists of potential words as students type initial letters into the computer, can also help students dramatically improve the legibility and spelling of their writing.
  • "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.
  • which uses MP3 players to increase the literacy skills of beginning readers at Howard Elementary School in Eugene, Ore.
  • 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."
  • the program's benefits included higher test scores as well as increased comprehension and confidence.
Cally Baker

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"Technology (through television, texting, social networks posting, and the Internet) has contributed to an increase in literacy skills."

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