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Technology in Language Arts Articles:
CONTENT AREA: Applying an Analytic Rubric to Children’s Hypermedia “Narratives”
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary (second and third grades)
URL: http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v5n1/mott.html
The authors, Michael Seth Mott and Cynthia Etsler of Purdue University Calumet, along with Deondra Drumgold, Bank Street College of Education School for Children, designed an action research project to assess the effectiveness of pen-and-paper-created narratives if used for hypermedia-authored narratives of second- and third-grade children. The rubric investigated was the Writing What You Read (WWYR). The results indicated the pen-and-paper rubrics are transferable to hypermedia narratives with the differences in written textual expression and visual and verbally recorded expression calling for a few changes to revise and extend the WWYR rubric.
CONTENT AREA: EBooks Help children Read, Learn, Says University Study
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.centerdigitaled.com/converge/?pg=magstory&id=89601
In this article, Richard Bellaver, associate director of Ball State University’s Center for Information and Communication Sciences, writes about a study he organized to see how children remembered content read in eBooks as contrasted with traditional books. The results indicated no significant difference in retention. The children did display an enthusiastic liking for the eBooks.
CONTENT AREA: The Digital Whiteboard: A Tool in Early Literacy Instruction
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/2-04_column
Having received a research grant, Pamela A. Solvie conducted a study of first-grade children based on the use of the digital whiteboard to teach reading. She found its strengths to be as an organizational tool for lesson planning and for scaffolding learning for the children. The digital whiteboard was notable also for the high interest level it stimulated in the children, especially its engagement of multisensory responses from the first graders.
CONTENT AREA: Helping Dependent Readers Use the Web
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.iste.org/LL
In this article, Judi Harris Paula White, and Becky Fisher pinpointed web-based strategies as a means to improve reading comprehension for struggling readers known as dependent readers who lack the coping strategies to deal with challenging text. Their study applied scaffolding as promoted in six different techniques to teach the children how to scan web-based reading to make it accessible to them. The authors call attention to ways teachers can find the reading level of web pages using various familiar readability scales if they are not linked to KidsClick!
CONTENT AREA: Technology & Curriculum
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.netc.org/earlyconnections/primary/curriculum.html
The particular benefits derived from technology in early literacy instruction and for mathematics also are outlined in this article. For busy students and teachers, the bulleted format makes the article especially reader-friendly. Teaching reading supported by technology is discussed in light of the ease with which young students can use visual tools to convey their ideas and to create stories, how they can word process their writing more easily than handwrite it, and how by reading aloud the text they have written as it appears on the screen, they can share their reading and writing with others.
Technology Integration Websites:
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.superthinkers.com/enlightenme
Making children want to read is the forte of this web site that presents original interactive mysteries. To solve the mysteries, children learn problem-solving skills. The site offers games, stories, and activities covering all the multiple intelligences. Additionally, children can make books and posters to help finding “whodunit” in The Peetnik Mysteries of Clutterbuck Valley.
CONTENT AREA: KidReach, the Online Reading Center
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/index.html
The KidReach project is a teacher’s aid and resource that suggests ways to stimulate the desire to read in children and to provide them with the means of acquiring the skills they need to be able to read with ease and fluency through a multimedia interaction with literature. The site offers anticipation guides, lesson plans, book reviews, reading links, contests, an online writing lab, and a chat link.
CONTENT AREA: Reading Online
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary
URL: http://www.readingonline.org
This site is a K-12 journal, but it has extensive content for the elementary school teacher of reading. The Electronic Classroom is a rich source of information for integrating technology into literacy instruction. Teaching reading in other nations is presented as practice and research input from literacy teachers outside of the United States. Other links include articles, archives, media literacy, and online communities.
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