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grimreef1

Transforming Lives Through Microsoft Digital Literacy - 0 views

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  • 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
  • grimreef1 on 06 Oct 14
     
    here's a page to start with...
Ronnie Jackson

Can Twitter Boost Literacy? : NPR - 2 views

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Misinfo Debate

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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

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television literacy

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  • 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
  • g-rooney on 09 Oct 14
     
    The ability to provide education to low-income children and prepare them for school. Allowing them to score higher on certain assessments than others
Ronnie Jackson

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

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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.
  • Ronnie Jackson on 10 Oct 14
     
    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.
g-rooney

Online Social Networking Dangers and Benefits - 0 views

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  • 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
mcflycarey

Literacy and Text Messaging | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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Team A digital literacy technology improves literacy

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  • 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.”
  • mcflycarey on 10 Oct 14
     
    too many things to highlight, the article speaks for itself.
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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g-rooney

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

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internet literacy

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  • 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
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

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  • 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

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television literacy

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  • 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
jezbie

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

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  • 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

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.
vjbaldwin

Texting Improving Literacy? | The Principal of Change - 1 views

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  • Texting and it’s impact on reading and writing “It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.” “The more you text, the better your literacy scores.” “The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.” “What is texting?  Texting is writing and reading.” “The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.”
  • One of the additional things he discussed in this talk was that we often say, “These kids do not read,” but he quickly dismisses this as a fallacy.  In fact, Crystal goes further to say that kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing.  Simply put, they do not read and write the same things that we did.
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    Texting improves how students score on Literacy tests because of how much they read and write while texting.
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.
g-rooney

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

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technology improves literacy

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    Studies on how iPads improved literacy scores among certain groups.
Ronnie Jackson

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

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  • Ronnie Jackson on 09 Oct 14
     
    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.
jezbie

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

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  • 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.
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