Using Technology When Teaching Literacy

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Using Technology When Teaching Literacy

• By Reesa Smith
• Instructional Technology Specialist
• Vanderlyn Elementary

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Define Literacy
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Basic Literacy

• The ability to read and write. (Cesanini)
• Holum and Gahala mention, when literacy is taught
  in schools there are four skills that are taught
• Reading
• Writing
• Listening
• Speaking

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Georgia Professional Standards

• We have started implementing the Georgia
  Professional Standards in the language arts area
  in schools in Georgia.
• The kindergarten-fifth grade language arts
  standards directly correlate to literacy using
  speaking, reading, writing, and listening.

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Ways to Use Technology in Teaching Literacy
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Technology and Literacy

• Hokum and Gahala mention that now that we are in
  a technology world the literacy skills of
  reading, writing, listening, and speaking are
  still used, along with communicating,
  researching, accessing and evaluating
  information.
• Thoughts are that technology can help increase an
  understanding of literacy.
• Literacy and technology correlates with Blooms
  higher levels of taxonomy.

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Technology and Literacy Across the Curriculum

• Although literacy can refer to the language arts
  curriculum, reading, writing, speaking, and
  listening can be used in all subject areas
  including
• Language arts
• Math
• Social Studies
• Science
• The examples that are presented will display all
  subject area using technology to teach literacy.

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Literacy and Technology in Student-Centered
Activities

• The use of technology in teaching literacy also
  promotes whole group activities and
  student-centered activities.
• Student centered activities can involve
  individual activities or small groups where the
  students are the main focus and the teacher is
  the facilitator.
• Each student can have a job that can relate to
  the technology.
• These student-centered activities can help the
  students relate learning to the real world.

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Technology and Literacy Definitions

• Hokum and Gahala explain that there are some
  terms relating literacy and technology.
• Information Literacy
• Digital Literacy
• New Literacy
• Computer Literacy
• Computer-Technology Literacy
• Critical Literacy
• Media Literacy

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Technologies We Use at School to Promote Literacy

• Kid Pix
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Frontpage
• Inspiration
• Internet
• Jumpstart

• Timeliner
• Accelerated Reader
• Type to Learn
• Living Books (Audio Book)
• Email
• Scanner
• Digital Camera

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Examples of Technology and Literacy

• In the following slides, examples will be shown
  in each grade level as to how technology can be
  utilized in the curriculum to teach literacy.

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Electronic Talking Books

In kindergarten and first grade, students are
learning how to read. Electronic talking books,
such as ABC Dr. Seuss and The Cat in the Hat can
help the child associate the word with a picture
and also hear the word when the story is read.
Students can put on their headphones help them
hear and read with fluency at their own speed.
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Kid Pix in Kindergarten

• Kid Pix is a program that is used in all grade
  levels. In Kid Pix students can draw and type. At
  the beginning of kindergarten, students begin
  with typing their name and the item they are
  drawing. By the end of the school year most of
  them can type a simple sentence with the picture.

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Kid Pix
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Internet Sites to Use with Kindergarten

• These are just some websites that can be used as
  a whole group, with pairs or individually with
  kindergarten students.
• Starfall
• Scholastic
• PBS Kids
• ABC Teach
• My Colors

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Kid Pix First Grade

• When the first graders begin school, an All
  About Me unit is used. In this example, a child
  types a sentence in Kid Pix and illustrates a
  picture of himself with detail from the sentence.
  Students can now create sentences with words.

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Kid Pix and I Went Walking

• There is a story the first graders read called I
  Went Walking by Sue Williams. The students then
  develop their own sentence based on the books
  repetition. They type the sentence in Kid Pix and
  use the stamp to illustrate. Students can relate
  the reading of a book to the sentence they type.
  The slides are put together to make a class book.

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Using Inspiration in Science

• In science the students study insects. They first
  went on www.yahooligans.com with a partner to do
  research. They then created a word web in
  Inspiration by typing information about insects
  based on the information they read and researched.

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Creating a Class Book Using Many Technologies

• In one class we created a class story about the
  farm in MS Word, since they were studying the
  farm in class.
• Then we divided the story so each child could
  type a sentence in MS PowerPoint.
• They then drew a picture, scanned it, and
  inserted into PowerPoint.
• The slides were put together to make a class
  slide show using multimedia and it was printed
  for a book.

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• The farmer was trying to nap in the farmhouse.
  The noise was just too loud! He heard the
  arguing and yelling. There was a lot of
  commotion!

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PowerPoint in Social Studies

• In January, the students talked about Martin
  Luther King Jr.. They used a website to read
  about the history of MLK, in pairs. With guided
  instruction from the teacher, the pairs created a
  PowerPoint with the timeline of MLK with pictures
  copied and pasted from the website.

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MLK

• Alana and Charlie

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• Mlk was born in atanta.

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• Mlk is a minister.

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• MLK marries Coretta Scott.

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• MlK leads a boycott.

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• MLk gives the I Have a Dream speed.

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• MLK won the Nobel Peace priz

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• MlKs birthday is a holiday.

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Using Word to Type a Letter

• It was the election year and the students went
  through the writing process to compose a letter
  to the president. We sent the letters off, and
  received a response from the president. The
  students have a purpose for writing through
  communicating.

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Creating Web Pages

• In first grade, a teacher would have the students
  do various activities on Microsoft Frontpage such
  as writing a story about a pet or sentences that
  involve numbers. Then she puts these stories on
  her website so the parents and the children can
  see their literacy progress.

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Internet Sites to Use with First Grade Literacy

• Starfall
• Yahooligans
• Scholastic

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Word and Kid Pix in Second Grade

• The students were reading Chocolate Fever in
  language arts. They use the webquest to find out
  information about the author Robert Kimmel Smith
  and chocolate. Students then develop their own
  candy and a description using Kid Pix and Word
  and inserting the picture.

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Inspiration and the Government
Students worked in groups of three to create an
Inspiration web on the three branches of
government after studying this in their social
studies book.
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Internet, Word and Kid Pix

• Students worked in groups of three to do research
  on an animal and their habitat using the
  Internet. Then, each student developed a
  paragraph in Word based on the information they
  read. Lastly, they created a picture in Kid Pix
  and inserted it into Word.

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PowerPoint and Maps

• Click here to see the Maps PowerPoint

• Students used multimedia with pictures and
  sentences to describe the different kinds of
  maps. This was presented to the class.

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Maps

• Sam

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Continents

• There are continents in the world and they are
  large bodies of land.

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United States America

• A body of land with 50 states and it is the
  country we live in.

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Georgia

• Georgia is divided into many counties.

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Atlanta

• Atlanta is a city of highways and interstates.

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Internet Sites to Use with Second Grade

• Yahooligans
• Animals and Habitats
• WebQuests

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Third Grade Inspiration in Language Arts

• Students were talking about subject and
  predicates. An Inspiration web was created to
  show the difference in the two. Each child made
  up their own subjects and predicates.

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Inspiration and Science
Inspiration can also be used in Science when
describing the different types of simple machine.
At this point, students change the color and add
pictures to make the word web be more appealing.
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Third Grade and Word with Clipart and the Scanner
The following paragraphs are developed by third
graders at the beginning of the school year. They
have gone through the writing process. They were
also able to insert clipart from Microsoft
clipart. Students can also use the scanner to put
a picture onto a Word document.
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Science Project in Kid Pix

• In science, the students used the Internet to do
  research and take notes on the lifecycle of the
  frog. They rewrote the notes in their own words
  on Word and created a Kid Pix of the cycle.

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Third Grade Writing Test

• In third grade the students take the writing
  test. To prepare for the test, we can have the
  students use the Flesh Kincaid Grade Level on
  Word to determine at what grade level they are
  writing.

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PowerPoint and Two Bad Ants

• The following is a PowerPoint that the students
  created after reading the story Two Bad Ants by
  Chris Van Allsburg and comparing the ants in the
  story to the research that was done on real ants
  on the Internet. This was presented to the class.

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Ants Real and Not Real

• By Perry

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A Fact About Ants

• Ants are really intelligent.

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Fictional Ant Information

• The ants survived the garbage disposal.

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A Real Fact About Ants

• Only the queen ant lays eggs.

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Fictional Ant Information

• The ants survived the electric shock.

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A Real Fact About Ants

• Some ants can fly.

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Fake information about ants

• They can talk.

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Internet Sites to Use with Third Grade

• Yahooligans
• Microsoft Clipart
• Mhschool

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Fourth Grade Science

• Students worked in pairs. One student developed
  an Inspiration web using the information that the
  other student read from the Internet on biomes.

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Technology Math and Literacy

• Even in math, students can use technology and
  have it relate to literacy.
• Internet sources were used to do research on
  professions that use math.
• Students created a PowerPoint on information read
  and interpreted.

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Math education

• BySam

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Nuclear engineers

• Nuclear energy provides more than 20 of the
  U.S.A.s electricity.
• They learn trigonometry, geometry, and calculus.

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Radiation Therapy

• Radiation therapist use x-rays or radioactivity
  in the treatment of cancer.
• Radiation therapist use trigonometry,they use
  angles so the beam can enter the body safely.

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Using Word and the Digital Camera to Develop
Stories and Interpreting Stories

• Island of the Blue Dolphins with digital camera
  picture

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Kid Pix and Literacy

• Students created a travel brochure from
  information they had researched on a country from
  the media center. They put the information into
  Kid Pix and got pictures from Google images.
  These were printed and displayed.

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Literacy and Multimedia with PowerPoint

• Student in fourth grade language arts took full
  advantage The Egypt Game book by creating a
  small group then whole class multimedia
  presentation
• They used the Internet for information and
  pictures.
• They developed a PowerPoint with background,
  information, pictures, and sounds that was
  presented to the class along with food and
  clothing to get the full effect.

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Life in Ancient Egypt

• The people of ancient Egypt built mudbrick homes
  in villages and in the country.
• Board games were very common in ancient Egypt
  and people from all levels of society played them.

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Food in Egypt

• They mostly ate bread.
• They mostly drank beer.
• The rich ate vegetables and meat.

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The Home

• The homes of the rich were larger and more
  luxurious.
• Town houses could be multi-storied to make the
  most of limited land.

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Clothing

• Their clothing was detailed and very tight.
• Their clothing is a very different stile.

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Internet Sites to Use with Fourth Grade

• Egypt
• Biomes
• Math Jobs
• Google Images

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Inspiration and Properties of Matter and
Adjectives in Fifth Grade

• As a whole group with a science class we gave
  example of different objects and their properties
  of matter using Inspiration.
• Students and teachers related this to adjectives.
• Students created their own Inspiration web on
  objects they found at home.
• Pictures were added for more of a description.

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Literacy and Poems

• During Mothers Day, each child created a poem on
  about their mother and typed it on Word.

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Discussion of Points in To Kill a Mocking Bird

• In a reading class students were reading To Kill
  a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee.
• Students answered questions about the characters.
• Students discussed their opinions with their
  class. They were able to express themselves.

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Timeline of the Civil War

• In social studies, the students have been reading
  and doing research on the Civil War.
• They constructed a timeline of major events and
  reworded the information to be put in a timeline
  form.

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Letter Writing and Real World

• In language arts, students had to pick a product
  and develop a formal business letter to send to
  the company.
• The writing process was created.
• The letters were sent to see if they could get
  samples of the product.

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Internet Sites to Use with Fifth Grade

• Search engines
• Yahooligans
• Ask Jeeves for Kids
• Ivy Joy Kids Search
• Google images

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Computer Assisted Instruction- Accelerated Reader
and Type to Learn
This program is used in all grades to test the
students on books. There are incentives for
taking the test and in turn the students are
reading for understanding.
With Type to Learn, the students can learn the
sequence of the letters on the keyboard, and
achieve in completing a task of typing in a
suitable amount of time.
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Conclusions

• Literacy is a topic that we will always teach our
  children across the curriculum.
• Literacy in relation to reading, speaking,
  listening, and writing will always be a part of
  everyday real life.
• Now, technology has become such a intricate part
  of instructing literacy.
• Students are able to apply their knowledge of
  literacy by using technology as a tool. Using
  technology in literacy allows the activities to
  be student centered.
• Using technology and literacy can be taught with
  students individually, small groups, and pairs.
• There are new technologies created and
  implemented everyday in schools that can be
  transferred to real world environments.

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Information from the Audience
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Resources

• http//www.glc.k12.ga.us
• http//www.georgiastandards.org/langart.asp
• http//www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cnt
  areas/reading/li300.htm
• http//www.literacyandtechnology.org/PDF/Cesarini.
  pdf
• http//www.literacyandtechnology.org/main/toc.html
  

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Internet Resources in Samples

• Ants
• http//search.yahooligans.yahoo.com/search/ligans?
  pants
• Biomes
• http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome
  http//library.thinkquest.org/C0113340
• Math and Occupations
• http//www.learner.org/exhibits/dailymath/
• http//www.girlsgotech.org/careers.html
• http//www.math.ucdavis.edu/kouba/MathJobs.html
• http//www.mathguide.com/issues/whymath.html
• http//www.ycdsb.edu.on.ca/Schools/grassroots/stau
  gustine/math/grade10/careerprj/Description20of20
  mathematics20used20in20the20given20pofession.
  htm
• http//facstaff.bloomu.edu/jpolhill/math_related_p
  rofessions.htm

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Internet Resources in Samples

• Egypt
• www.nationalgeographic.com/TV/mummy
  www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/mummy/index/html
  www.civilization.ca/civil/egypt/egypte.html
• Animals and Habitats
• http//curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/98we
  bquests/student/sbetsybrown/oh__give_me_a_home!.ht
  m
• Yahooligans
• www.yahooligans.com

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Internet Resources in Samples

• Cat in the Hat Information
• http//www.kidsclick.com/descrip/catinhat.htm
• Chocolate Fever WebQuest
• http//www.bridgerayn.org/Janine/webquest/Intro.ht
  m
• Martin Luther king Jr.
• http//www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.ht
  m
• Maps
• http//www.atlapedia.com/online/maps/political/USA
  _select.htm http//www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/cia03/w
  orld_sm03.gif
• http//quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
• http//quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/thematic/PL0
  120013.html
• http//www.creativeforceinc.com/city_maps/city_map
  s.asp?ID55