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By: Colleen Shannon, August Mendes
Literacy technology is the ability to responsibly, creatively, and effectively use appropriate technology. Uses:
Communication
Access, collect, manage, integrate, and evaluate information
Solve problems and create solutions
Build and share knowledge
Improve and enhance learning in all subject areas and experiences
Apply technology to real-world experiences
Personalize technology to meet personal needs, interest, and learning styles
Different types of Literacy technology
Literacy- teaching of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In today's digital world, technology has contributed.
Information Literacy: The ability to access and use information, analyze content, work with ideas, synthesize thought, and communicate results.
Digital Literacy: The ability to attain deeper understanding of content by using data-analysis tools and accelerated learning processes enabled by technology.
Computer Literacy: The ability to accurately and effectively use computer tools such as word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation and graphic software.
Media Literacy: The ability to communicate competently in all media forms—print and electronic—as well as access, understand, analyze and evaluate the images, words, and sounds that comprise contemporary culture.
Literacy Technology in the classroom
Technology literacy in the classroom improves learning, productivity and performance
Computer use for children is as essential as learning to read, write and do math
Children with access to computers and trained teachers can learn faster and learn better
Technology allows students to learn at their own pace and practice as much as they want
For students with disabilities, technology such as word processing and speech recognition can give them the tools they need to participate fully in challenging academic courses
Rosetta Stone Offers up to 31 different languages to learn from computer software
Has risen 41 % in 2008 in software buys
There are 3 levels for each language which increase with difficulty
Offers the ability to learn another language outside the classroom setting
The Rosetta Stone software uses a combination of images, text, and sound, to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills
or translation.
BloggingA blog is a frequently updated, personal
websiteIt focuses on particular topicSome are home staging, sports, or mobile
technologyOthers present links to other sitesMost common ones are personal journals or
information about someone’s daily life
WORK CITED 1. http://www.rosettastone.com/personal/how-it-works/engage 2. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm 3. http://www.ncrel.org 4. http://campus.fortunecity.com/newton/40/home.html 5. http://codex.wordpress.org/introduction_to_blogging