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Ronnie Jackson

The social networking section of the Google Doc has been filled in. - 2 views

The sources from my writing are here in Diigo :) Let's get er done! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qp1MFV9HScRw91jLg45BhmnjPXuFVdOt1gvqDhvS9yc/edit

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g-rooney

The Benefits of Internet Literacy for Seniors - Modern Senior - 0 views

  • Research conducted at UCLA found that even minimal internet use resulted in improved cognitive function among adults between the ages of 55-78.  Participants were asked to spend some time conducting simple internet searches on a daily basis.  The findings show that using the web increases activity in the areas of the brain associated with memory and decision-makin
mcflycarey

Literacy thrives in the "Digital era" - 1 views

I definetly feel technology of the digital era has helped literacy to thrive. Through texting and social media kids have developed skills even i don't have at 30. They are more inclined to research...

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mcflycarey

Literacy and Text Messaging | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

  • Literacy and Text Messaging
  • But experts point out that, in fact, technology has put new emphasis on reading and writing.
  • “A generation ago, a teen who couldn’t read well could still participate pretty fully in the social conversation among peers,” says Timothy Shanahan, president of the International Reading Association. “But with so much written chatter, being able to read and write have become definite social advantages. There is simply much more pressure to know how to read than in the past when it comes to conversation, shopping, or work.”
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    too many things to highlight, the article speaks for itself.
g-rooney

Online Social Networking Dangers and Benefits - 0 views

  • A social networking site can be a good way to make connections with people with similar interests and goals. They can be a way to connect with or "meet" people that a student may not have had the opportunity to before-including other students, staff, faculty and even alumni. Just as social media provides another avenue for making friends, it also makes it possible to renew old ones. Thus, meeting people and staying connected with classmates and friends is a major benefit of social networking sites. Social networking sites also offer event listings, group profiles and fan pages that can communicate the pulse of a campus culture. They can be a great way to understand and stay connected to your campus community as a whol
Ronnie Jackson

Schoolchildren 'should be encouraged to blog and use Facebook to improve literacy' - Te... - 0 views

  • The National Literacy Trust surveyed 3,001 children from England and Scotland for what it said was the first significant study of young people's attitudes to writing in the UK.
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    The National Literacy Trust surveyed 3,001 children from England and Scotland for what it said was the first significant study of young people's attitudes to writing in the UK. It found that 49 per cent of young people believe writing is "boring". However, 57 per cent of those who used text-based web applications such as blogs, said they generally enjoyed writing compared to 40 per cent who did not. Those who had a blog or profile on a social networking site (SNS) also appeared to be more confident in their writing ability: 61 per cent of bloggers and 56 per cent of social networkers claimed to be good or very good at writing, compared to 47 per cent of those who had neither. A total of 13 per cent of children surveyed had their own website, 24 per cent kept their own blog and 56 per cent had a profile on a social networking site. Such web activity was also credited with encouraging children to engage with more traditional forms of writing. Those who were active online were "significantly more likely" to write short stories, letters, song lyrics and diaries than those who had no online presence, the study found.
Ronnie Jackson

Can Twitter Boost Literacy? : NPR - 2 views

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    HEADLEE: Well, then let me ask you about length. I mean, we were joking earlier about using 140 characters or less, there are many people who argue that something like Facebook or Twitter actually decreases young people's attention span for reading. That, you know, when they're getting all their information in these little bips, blips, and clips that they're not ready to read that multipage investigative report or even a long novel like Moby Dick. JUNCO: Right, well, to that I say two things. One, I've conducted research to show that that isn't the case. That students actually - they get a lot from putting their words in 140 characters. I think it forces them to be concise and to be very thoughtful about what they write. But another part of that is that, for better or worse, this is our society now. We have been thinking in news bites for a very long time and 140 characters for a very long time. I mean, you know, being in the biz, right, you know that you have to grab people's attention very early on with short statements. And so I think part of that is learning how to read the vast amounts of information that's basically thrown at them everyday through traditional and newer media.
g-rooney

Benefits of educational television - 0 views

  • helps preschool children learn about numbers and the alphabet, and thus helps prepare them for school.
  • preschoolers in low-income areas around Kansas City who had watched educational television programming, including "Sesame Street," not only were better prepared for school but actually performed better on verbal and math tests as late as age 7 than would have been expected otherwise.
  • who had watched primarily adult programming and entertainment cartoons performed worse on those later tests than would have been expected.
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  • This study shows that terrific television causes kids to be more receptive to learning, more receptive to reading, more receptive in school," said Peggy Charren, founder of the now-inactive advocacy group Action for Children's Television and now a visiting scholar at Harvard University's School of Education, who has read the new study
  • The study also found that among these children, those who had watched children's educational programs in general and "Sesame Street" in particular spent more time reading than those who had watched more adult programming or noneducational cartoons
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    The ability to provide education to low-income children and prepare them for school. Allowing them to score higher on certain assessments than others
g-rooney

John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! | Talk Video | TED.com - 1 views

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    THANK YOU PROFESSOR KNOF
vjbaldwin

Technology (through television, texting, Facebook posting, a by Amanda Heim on Prezi - 0 views

  • Using social platforms and other networking sites can help people reach their career goals more easily, while also educating people who may not know much about a particular field. Education can take place informally merely through the fact that people are interested in a subject.
  • Children who regularly text message have BETTER English than those who don't (even if thy use txt spk)Kinzer and Leu (1997) demonstrated positive effects of technology on both learning in a content area and learning to use technology itself.
  • Multimedia presentations (video, images, sound, text) can create stronger memory links than text alone. In addition, digital technologies allow instant playbacks, which provide the learner with quick and easy access to different sections of instructional materials than when they are using a textbook.
g-rooney

Quality Television Shows That Focus on Early Literacy | Homework & Study Skills | At Sc... - 0 views

  • need supervision and guidelines for the amount of television to which they are exposed and the types of shows they can access
  • constantly in the process of developing their ability to understand information and make sense of what is real and what is pretend
  • Exposing children to developmentally inappropriate information and images on television can leave them feeling confused, frightened or upset. This is why choosing appropriate television shows for your children is a critical element of their development.
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  • many positive benefits
g-rooney

Television and Literacy - 0 views

  • In the present society television has become an integral part of one's life
  • educational television
  • displacement" theory
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  • television replaces the time spent reading or doing homework
  • Studies have shown that close captioning can improve literacy
  • both educational television and close captioning
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    Evidence of television and how it helps improve literacy
jezbie

Digital Literacy: How Technology Can Improve Your Community - Digital Placemaking - 1 views

  • obs, Community Online Presence and Overall Economic Capacity.
jezbie

What is the Impact of Technology on Learning? | Education.com - 0 views

  • Pearson et al. concluded that a wide range of digital tools enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary development by providing students access to word pronunciation, word meaning, contextual information, and comprehension scaffolds to guide an individual’s reading.
jezbie

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

  • some educators are attempting to harness the power of technology to increase literacy rates for struggling students
  • newer and better technology is coming out all the time to make the option of classroom technology even stronger, especially for struggling readers and writers. He points to advances in speech recognition technology, such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh's research-based Reading Tutor project or programs such as Pearson's Quick Reads, as examples of tools that can improve students' reading fluency.
  • 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.
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  • "The only tool that has enough research behind it is plain, old word processing," MacArthur says. "Students with writing difficulties are able to produce a text that looks good, and they can go back and fix things without introducing new mistakes."
  • 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
  • Egli notes that using technology alone is not the answer to improving literacy, but the tools help teachers move students toward their individual learning goals. "Using some of the technologies we have now, we can do some things that many of us hoped to achieve for a lot of our special-needs kids—but at a much more efficient rate," she says.
Ronnie Jackson

Google Doc to compose all of our research. - 2 views

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    This is the sharable link to a Google Doc we can all update in real time to compose our argument with all of the research we have gathered.
g-rooney

8 Studies Show iPads in the Classroom Improve Education - 0 views

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    Studies on how iPads improved literacy scores among certain groups.
g-rooney

Using Technology To Increase Literacy Skills - 0 views

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    Basic examples of how technology aids those with learning disabilities improve with certain software programs. Nothing strong enough to provide hardcore evidence, but enough to aid us with how it improves literacy.
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