using technology to enhance literacy skills
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Workshop for elemenary ESL teachers on how technology can enhance literacy skills.TRANSCRIPT
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Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Skills
Prof. Arlinda LópezWPRTESOL Conference 2012
UPR, Aguadilla
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Objectives
Define the terms: literacy and technology integration.Discuss how technology can enhance literacy skills in the elementary level.Demonstrate technology that can be used to develop literacy skills.Practice the use of various technology tools.
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Literacy SkillsLiteracy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speakingToday's students also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing and using information, computing, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media, and understanding and evaluating data.
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Technology Integration
Forward-looking educators believe that technology has the potential to connect students to reading and writing. Meyer and Rose (2000), for example, point out "the potential of new technology to revitalize reading instruction and to make reading more relevant to the lives of children growing up in the Electronic Age."
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Technology Integration
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Technology Integration
An authentic use of technology is using it as a tool to accomplish a complex task; for example, students who are creating a written report might use the Internet for research, word-processing software to write and format the text, and hypermedia software to add images.
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Tech for Reading Development
AudiobooksE-books and online textsElectronic talking books
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Tech for Writing Development
Word processingDesktop publishingMultimedia composingOn-line publishing of student workInternet-based communication
Video use in the Classroom
YouTube DownloaderVideo in the classroom (Guide)
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www.storybird.com short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.
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Resources
Hillner, J. (2009). Use online video in your classroom. Edutopia. Retrieved on June 1, 2011 from http://www.edutopia.org/youtube-educational-videos-classroom Wilen-Daigenti, T. (2009). edu: Technology and learning environments in higher education. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
