Chapter 2 Teaching Reading in Today's Elementay Schools Roe, Smith

1. TEACHING READING IN
TODAY’S ELEMENTARY
SCHOOLS
Chapter 2- Use of Technology
for Literacy Learning

2. New literacy concerns
• Integrating technology into education to improve student
achievement and make students technologically literate is
a national concern
• Technological literacy-ability to use computers and other
technology to improve learning, productivity, and
performance.
• Visual literacy ability to derive meaning from still
pictures, animations, and images in the context of video
presentations as well as the ability to present meaning
through them.
• Media literacy includes understanding and evaluating
information viewed and read.
• Digital literacy-a type of media literacy that includes
skills in viewing and visually representing
• Multimedia-the mixing of different media

3. Changes in text processing
• Hypertext-text that can be viewed in an order chosen by
the reader
• Hypermedia-a variety of media that can be viewed and/or
heard in an order chosen by the user, making the material
highly interactive.
• Help aid in comprehension- click on bold face
words, provide graphic organizers, options for taking
notes and printing notes
• Present new challenges-problems in navigation and
locating information, dealing with intrusive outside
information, following links unrelated, broken links

4. Using technology to meet needs of
diverse student populations
• Gifted and talent students can pursue independent inquiry
• Supportive technology can help students overcome some
reading problems
• Talking word processing programs
• Larger print
• Computer scaffolding instruction
• Devices for students with poor fine-motor skills
• Braille printers
• Word prediction- completes partial words
• Abbreviation expansion- whole messages with a
combination of key strokes

5. Technology as a tool for literacy instruction
• Interactive white boards-electronic dry erase boards act
as a computer monitor
• Word processing and desktop publishing write and
publish student work- highly motivating
• Multimedia publishing-prepare projects, highly motivating
• Databases and electronic reference works- valuable
research tool
• E books-add an element of interactivity to books, help
pronounce words, model fluency, able to understand
higher level text

6. The internet
• A network of networks throughout the world
• Locating information- finding relevant information from
1000’s of hits
• Students need to be taught to approach material like
expository text
• Read critically
• Question the accuracy
• Purpose of their search firmly in mind- make use of
headings and highlighted words before clicking on the link
• Internet safety

7. Using the internet as an interactive
learning tool
• Webquests- inquiry projects used to facilitate thematic
interdisciplinary teaching
• Check all links prior to assigning webquest
• Email-teach children appropriate email writing and dialogue.
• Discussion groups- network locations to which messages are
posted so that readers interested in the topic can participate
in electronic discussion by reading and responding to
messages
• Podcasts- like an internet radio program
• Videoconferences- hold conferences over the internet
• Student Interactives- interactive tools to make learning
interesting and fun

8. Teacher responsibilities when using
internet
• Check all links for appropriate material
• Monitor student use
• Refer to your districts/schools internet policy use and stay
within district guidelines
• WWYD? Mr. Paschal assigned a topic to each student in
class to use the Internet to obtain information about their
topics and then write a report based on the information. He
was upset when many reports contained inaccurate
statements. What could he have done to prevent this
problem?
• ikeepbookmarks
• Create an evaluation checklist for yourself and your students
to use

9. Classroom communication
• Homepages-post items in a news letter format
• Blog- web log- always set content so that it cannot be
displayed without teacher approval
• Wikis- websites that let users edit content- wikipedia

10. Computer assisted instruction – (CAI)
• The use of computers to administer a programmed
instructional sequence.
• Computer software available to develop literacy skills-
leapfrog, reader rabbit, reading detective- often in game
format
• Program should present accurate information with an
appropriate amount of student interaction-
• Drill and practice programs- focus on retention
• Tutorial programs-computer presents instruction and
practice
• Simulation programs- set up situations (Oregon Trail)
• Educational Game Programs-variety of formats, highly
entertaining

11. Computer managed instruction (CMI)
• Uses the computer for such tasks as record
keeping, diagnosis, and prescription of individualized
assignments.
• Accelerated reader program
• Book Adventure- Sylvan Learning Center
• Combine using computer applications along with other
media to stimulate student interest
• Computer reading programs-
• READ 180
• READING PLUS

12. Additional technology to aid instruction
• Transparencies/ ELMO
• Television programs
• Audio programs
• Video recordings- books/movies
• Movie maker
• AMV- authoring with video
• Free software – MAGpie needed to enter narration
Lesson plan

13. NCLB- Technology-specific goals
• To improve student achievement through the use of
technology in elementary and secondary schools
• To assist every student in crossing the digital divide by
ensuring that every student is technologically
literate by the time the student finishes eighth
grade, regardless of the student’s
race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic
location, or disability.
• To encourage the effective integration of technology
resources and systems with teacher training and
curriculum development to establish research-based
instructional methods that can be widely implemented
as best practices by state education agencies and local
education agencies.

14. What NCLB means to Me as a teacher
• Districts will provide professional development to enhance
technology curriculum instruction modeling ideas for best
practices instruction
• Technology must be incorporated throughout all areas of
instruction
• Teachers must be very creative in giving opportunities for
technology instruction especially in lower SES districts
and privately funded schools.

15. Summary chapter 2
• Technological literacy for students has become a
nationwide goal. Meeting this goal requires students to
be able to use technology to enhance learning and
productivity. Teachers are faced with a wide range of
possible applications for integrating technology into
everyday instruction. Computers can be used in literacy
instruction to provide extension and additional practice of
concepts. Using a combination of more traditional
technology and new technology is desired.