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A changing world for literacy. - Coggle Diagram
A changing world for literacy.
Engage with a technology-driven, diverse, and quickly changing “flat world.”
Prepare students for this world with problem solving, collaboration, and analysis—as well as skills with word processing, hypertext, LCDs, Web cams, digital streaming podcasts, smartboards, and social networking software—central to individual and community success.
Opportunities for teachers at all levels to foster reading and writing in more diverse and participatory contexts.
digital technology enhances writing and interaction in several ways.
demonstrate greater capacity for metacognition, reflection, and audience awareness.
K–12 students who write with computers produce compositions of greater length and higher quality and are more engaged with and motivated toward writing than their peers.
writing revise better than those participating in traditional collaborations.
Other dimensions of learning and teaching are essential.
-Two-thirds of all teachers report feeling under-prepared to use technology in teaching, even if they use computers to plan lessons, access model lesson plans, and create activities.
Teachers with relatively little technological skill can provide useful instruction.
Ways to encourage interaction among students
Encourage students to reflect regularly about the role of technology in their learning.
Create a website and invite students to use it to continue class discussions and bring in outside voices.
Give students strategies for evaluating the quality of information they find on the Internet.
Be open about your own strengths and limitations with technology and invite students to help you.
Explore technologies students are using outside of class and find ways to incorporate them into your teaching.
Ways to provide continuing opportunities in literacy classroom
Ensure that students in literacy classes have regular access to technology.
Provide regular literacy-specific professional develop- ment in technology for teachers and administrators at all levels, including higher education.
Require teacher preparation programs to include training in integrating technology into instruction.
Protect online learners and ensure their privacy.