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Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education - 0 views

  • Characters in alphabets began as pictures with meaning (West, 1997).
  • As history repeats itself, we may find that a great deal of information is better presented visually rather than verbally.
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  • predominant mode of literacy depends on the technology and mass media it embraces (Sinatra, 1986).
  • Kellner (1998) proposes that multiple literacies are necessary to meet the challenges of today's society, literacies that include print literacy, visual literacy, aural literacy, media literacy, computer literacy, cultural literacy, social literacy, and ecoliteracy.
  • Learning through orderly, sequential, verbal-mathematical, left-hemisphere tasks is a pattern seen frequently in education (West, 1997). Those whose thought processes are predominantly in the right-hemisphere where visual-spatial and nonverbal cognition activities rule frequently may have difficulty capitalizing on a learning style that is not compatible with their abilities.
  • If visual literacy is regarded as a language, then there is a need to know how to communicate using this language, which includes being alert to visual messages and critically reading or viewing images as the language of the messages.
  • Technology, particularly the graphical user interface of the World Wide Web, requires skills for reading and writing visually in order to derive meaning from what is being communicated.
  • Because visual literacy precedes verbal literacy in human development,
  • learning evolves from the concrete to the abstract; visual symbols are nonverbal representations that precede verbal symbols (Sinatra, 1986).
  • West (1997) conveys an innovative mathematics approach whereby students “do” mathematics rather than “watch” mathematics. The technique emphasizes learning through interactive graphics without words. “The words go into an idea only after the idea has already settled in our mind”(West, p.
  • The literature suggests that using visual elements in teaching and learning yields positive results.
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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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