Technology and Literacy

1
Technology and Literacy

• Kendra Henderson
• Brozo, William G., Simpson, Michelle L.. (1999)
  Readers, Teachers, Learners Expanding Literacy
  Across the Content Areas. (4th Edition) New
  Jersey Merrill Prentice Hall. Chapter 10.

2

• "Unless you try to do something beyond what you
  have already mastered, you will never grow." 
  Ronald E. Osborn

3
Why is technology so important in the classroom?

• With a society that depends highly on technology,
  literacy is a key component in using technology
  efficiently. Reading and comprehension is a must
  when using technology. It can also provide
  skills in literacy that cannot be found in the
  regular classroom.

4
Principles of Computer Technology in Content-Area
Classrooms

• Principal 1 Provide Opportunities for Creative
  Uses of Computer Technology
• A. Achievement is more likely if classrooms
  use computers in interesting and creative ways.
• B. Computers and other media can help
  students visualize better.

5
Cont.

• Principal 2 Use Computer Technology in Ways
  That Promote Critical Reading
• A. Prepare students for a post-typographic
  world.
• B. Computers can give answers but doesnt
  inspire curiosity

6
Cont.

• Principle 3 Use Computer Technology in Ways
  That Promote Authentic Communication
• A. Internet communication provides a sense of
  audience for literacy activity.
• B. Internet gives students a blend of
  communication and retrieval functions.

7
Cont.

• Principle 4 Use Computer Technology in Ways
  That Increase Student Motivation for and Interest
  in Purposeful and Meaningful Learning.
• A. Students are automatically interested and
  motivated by computers.
• B. Students can free their imaginations for
  better learning.

8
The Commonwealth of Learning

• Commonwealth
• The focus of the Commonwealth of Learning is to
  reach people with literacy through technology.
  Their goal is to accustom people to the written
  word when it is almost impossible to use
  technology without being able to read. This
  website is not necessarily only for teachers.

9

• Their focus is to inform the world how important
  literacy is in an ever changing technological
  world. On the website you have the option to
  join the cause and many resources to back up
  their project. The project, COLLIT, is the
  Commonwealth of Learning Literacy Project.

10
Linking Technology Through Literacy

• Linking Technology
• This website is provided by the Madison
  Metropolitan School District to give teachers
  ideas to linking technology in the classroom.
  Their goal is to provide effective lessons to
  help students learn. This website was comprised
  by many authors for a diverse outlook on
  strategies.

11

• This website provides material for only K 5,
  however they have divided the difficulty levels
  into three grade groups so teachers can better
  assess the appropriate challenge level. Not only
  does it give lessons, but how to publish your own
  lesson on the site and even to make your own.
  This is also critical to students who want to
  publish there own work on the World Wide Web.

12
Literacy and Technology

• Literacy and technology
• This website gives teachers strategies with
  combining literacy and technology in the
  classroom. It gives many different websites that
  teachers can use to find lessons and activities
  that teachers can use to help students learn more
  effectively.

13

• It also provides actual lessons used in the
  classroom by other teachers. This page stresses
  the importance of making literacy more effective
  through the use of technology by proving links to
  games and other multimedia that is interesting to
  students to make them more involved in the
  learning process.

14
Technology in Literacy Education

• Literacy Education
• This website is about a special interest group
  that focuses on technology in literacy education.
  Their mission is to enhance the teaching of
  literacy through technology. Also, they provide
  support in achieving this in the classroom for
  the teacher as well as the students.

15

• You can become a member of this organization and
  they also provide a newsletter to their members.
  This website also provides awards and special
  recognition they have received through this
  project. They have pictures and brief
  biographies of each officer in this group.

16
Center for Technology and Children

• Center for Technology
• The Center for Technology and Children rely on
  their past projects for helping teach children
  through media. The website has further reading
  links that consist of some projects that they are
  presently working on. One of these projects is
  called America Reads.

17

• This project was created for literacy tutors to
  volunteer and make tutoring somewhat easier
  through activities listed on the site. It
  provides skills for children at different levels
  as well as personal support for the tutor. This
  is just one project of many that this
  organization is involved.

18
Summary

• All the websites that I have listed are very
  beneficial. They all have many links to find
  what you may be looking for specifically. All of
  these websites have one thing in common and that
  is to enhance teaching literacy through
  technology. Each understands the importance of
  combined technology in the classroom. Also, they
  provide ways to reach the organizations for
  further interest and questions.

19
Print Materials

• Teachers Discovering Computers Integrating
  Technology in the Classroom. (2nd Edition)
  Authors Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman,
  Randolph E. Gunter, Glenda A. Gunter.
• Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching
  Authors M.D. Roblyer, Jack Edwards, Mary Anne
  Havriluk

20

• Integrating Technology Across the Curriculum A
  Database of Strategies and Lesson Plans Author
  Margaret D. Roblyer
• Learning with Technology A constructivist
  Perspective Authors David H. Jonassen, Kyle
  L. Peck, Brent G. Wilson

21

• Benchmarks for Science Literacy (Project 2061)
  Authors American Assoc. for Advancement of
  Science.
• Technical Communications A Reader-Centered
  Approach Author Paul V. Anderson