Workshop for elemenary ESL teachers on how technology can enhance literacy skills.

1. Using Technology to Enhance
Literacy Skills
Prof. Arlinda López
WPRTESOL Conference 2012
UPR, Aguadilla
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2. 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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3. Literacy Skills
Literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and
speaking
Today'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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4. 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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5. Technology Integration
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6. 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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7. Tech for Reading Development
Audiobooks
E-books and online texts
Electronic talking books
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8. Tech for Writing Development
Word processing
Desktop publishing
Multimedia composing
On-line publishing of student work
Internet-based communication
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9. Video use in the Classroom
YouTube Downloader
Video in the classroom (Guide)
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10. www.storybird.com
short, art-inspired stories you make to
share, read, and print.
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11. 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.
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12. Contact Information
Prof. Arlinda Lopez
arlinda.lopez@upr.edu
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