Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction

Description: So I have been doing some reflecting today on how my Choice Projects will contribute to me as a teacher using some of these ideas in my classroom. So today, I reflected on two articles that I believe have helped me broadened my horizons on using technology in the primary classroom: the positive, the negative, the possible outcomes, adn products that could be used in my future teaching instruction.
This article focused on specifically using technology in my classroom to enhance literacy development. Since my area of focus is literacy, I read this article and learned many new terms and strategies on how it is viewed so far in the learning environment. Literacy helps us read,write, think, speak, and learn. Incorporate that with technology, and you are learning even more to communicate, investigate, assess and expand in the learning atmosphere. The article is broken down into 7 types of literacy to use in technology: information, digital,new, computer, computer-technology, critical, and media. The article also discusses common electronic books and other online texts that allow students to experience when first being introduced into literacy methods.

Analysis/Reflection: Overall, I enjoyed reading this article as it offered collaboration tips for other readers, goals for administrators, media specialists, and the community on many different levels. I would use this information from anywhere to guided reading, reading workshops/stations, or assessing on leveled book activities. It was a great introduction into what exactly you experience your child to when technology sources are used in the classroom atmosphere.

To view this article, please visit the following:
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm