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vjbaldwin

Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction - 0 views

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  • Critical Literacy: The ability to look at the meaning and purpose of written texts, visual applications, and spoken words to question the attitudes, values, and beliefs behind them. The goal is development of critical thinking to discern meaning from array of multimedia, visual imagery, and virtual environments, as well as written text.
  • Critical Literacy: The ability to look at the meaning and purpose of written texts, visual applications, and spoken words to question the attitudes, values, and beliefs behind them. The goal is development of critical thinking to discern meaning from array of multimedia, visual imagery, and virtual environments, as well as written text.
  • Digital Literacy: The ability to attain deeper understanding of content by using data-analysis tools and accelerated learning processes enabled by technology
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  • The Internet is constructing global bridges for students to communicate, underscoring the need for rock-solid reading and writing skills. By changing the way that information is absorbed, processed, and used, technology is influencing how people read, write, listen, and communicate.
  • Computers are creating new opportunities for writing and collaborating.
  • Some researchers suggest that the challenges related to technology and literacy must become more integral to mainstream literacy research. Collins (1992)
  • Some educators believe that schools should provide students with exposure to current technologies used in the business world regardless of whether those technologies have been proven effective through research. Leu (2000) states, "It may become unimportant to demonstrate the advantages of new technologies for educational contexts if it is already clear those technologies will define the literacies of our students' futures" (p. 762).
  • Research indicates that students who are comfortable with word processing write longer papers, spend more time writing and revising, and show improved mechanics and word choice (Lehr, 1995).
  • ISSUE: Educational technology is nudging literacy instruction beyond its oral and print-based tradition to embrace online and electronic texts as well as multimedia. Computers are creating new opportunities for writing and collaborating. The Internet is constructing global bridges for students to communicate, underscoring the need for rock-solid reading and writing skills. By changing the way that information is absorbed, processed, and used, technology is influencing how people read, write, listen, and communicate. Although technology promises new ways to promote literacy, educators' reactions to it have been mixed. Some have embraced technology with unbridled enthusiasm while others have held it at arm's length with a healthy skepticism. Yet the growing influence of technology has caused many educators to acknowledge that they need information on teaching literacy skills in the Digital Age. To serve that need, this Critical Issue offers research, best practices, and resources that support integration of new technologies into literacy instruction.
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.
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.
grimreef1

Transforming Lives Through Microsoft Digital Literacy - 0 views

  • Learn how governments and organizations are using Microsoft Digital Literacy to increase access to essential computing skills all over the world.
  • In the twenty-first century knowledge economy, access to essential technology and computing skills is an important predictor of life opportunities. This white paper explores current technology drivers—including global Internet access, Web 2.0 technologies, and ubiquitous computing—and how the essential computing skills curriculum offered by Microsoft Digital Literacy has affected individuals in different geographies and socioeconomic circumstances all over the world.
  • From schools to workforce development centers to community technology learning centers, Microsoft Digital Literacy is helping individuals develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities
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    here's a page to start with...
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.
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.
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.
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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jezbie

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

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