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Cindy Edwards

Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom - 0 views

  • Education in the twenty-first century should focus on the development of authentic literacy skills for students.
  • . Podcasting is cheap
  • Audio podcasting encourages no-frills communication
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  • Podcasting invites a global audience
  • Podcasting is digital storytelling
  • . Podcasting provides a window into the classroom
  • Podcasting involves few privacy concerns
  • Podcasting can educate about copyright
  • Podcasting can be interactive
  • Podcasting can be creative
  • Podcasting can be fun!
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    Great information and links to motivate educators to begin producing podcasts in their own classroom!
Cindy Edwards

Using sound in the classroom - 0 views

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    Interesting activities to encourage and improve listening.
Cindy Edwards

Exploring the Use of the iPad for Literacy Learning - Hutchison - 2012 - The Reading Te... - 0 views

  • capabilities of a desktop or laptop computer, but with additional unique affordances, such as a multitouch screen and a seemingly endless variety of applications, that promote previously unseen possibilities for mobile learning.
  • digital, interactive books.
  • different affordances that create new modes of reading and writing
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  • digital texts can require different skills, strategies and dispositions, collectively referred to as new literacies
  • Yet, many literacy teachers still struggle to efficiently and effectively integrate and teach both traditional literacy skills and new literacy skills within a confined curriculum and with limited time (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • For example, the iPad has numerous downloadable books that allow students to read text with audio support, word-by-word tracking, and picture animation, with options for the reader to further interact by recording and replaying their own voice with the text. Other features of these books also include the ability to acquire the definition and pronunciation of any word on the screen by simply touching it and to add notes or highlighting to any section of text by tapping the screen.
  • making the reading experience more individualized, interactive, and engaging
  • it is imperative to examine how the tool can help teachers meet curricular goals to engage in what has been termed curricular integration as opposed to technological integration (Hutchison & Reinking, 2011).
  • one learning goal for her classroom was to focus on the reading comprehension strategy of visualization
  • selected a story from her basal reading series and then chose the pedagogical approach that would best teach the skill.
  • the researchers located an iPad app called Doodle Buddy that students could use to draw their illustrations
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