Connection between Technology and Language Skills - Reading
Digital technology has certainly had a profound
effect on the traditional book publishing and retailing industries. At one
point it looked as if the rise of e-books at knock-down prices and e-readers
like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook posed an existential threat
to book publishers and sellers. Provides important guidelines for uses of
technology that can help students and teachers develop the competencies needed
for the twenty-first century. The new technologies provide opportunities for
creating learning environments that extend the possibilities of “old” —but
still useful—technologies—books; blackboards; and linear, one-way communication
media, such as radio and television shows—as well as offering new
possibilities. Technologies do not guarantee effective learning, however.
Inappropriate uses of technology can hinder learning— for example, if students
spend most of their time picking fonts and colors for multimedia reports
instead of planning, writing, and revising their ideas. And everyone knows how
much time students can waste surfing the Internet.
Yet many aspects of technology make it easier to
create environments that fit the principles of learning discussed throughout
this volume. Because many new technologies are interactive, it is now easier to
create environments in which students can learn by doing, receive feedback, and
continually refine their understanding and build new knowledge. The new technologies can also help people visualize
difficult-to-understand concepts, such as differentiating heat from temperature.
Students can work with visualization and modelling software that is similar to
the tools used in non-school environments, increasing their understanding and
the likelihood of transfer from school to non-school settings. These
technologies also provide access to a vast array of information, including
digital libraries, data for analysis, and other people who provide information,
feedback, and inspiration. They can enhance the learning of teachers and
administrators, as well as that of students, and increase connections between
schools and the communities, including homes.
The following reading tools can all be considered assistive technology for students who need them.
However, they are available to
all students and can be beneficial to anyone looking to gain a better
understanding of a particular book, article, blog post, or any other piece of
writing. These resources can also help teachers create inclusive classrooms and implement the principles of Universal Design for Learning.
1. Rewordify
Rewordify.com is a free online tool that helps improve students' reading comprehension in multiple ways.First, a user pastes or imports text box on site. Rewordify then analyzes this text, looking for words and phrases that may be difficult to understand. Once the site locates difficult or problematic language, it replace with simpler words to aid students' understanding. The Rewordifying Engine includes multiple settings so that users can choose from several reading levels. Students also have the option of reading the original and replaced words with built-in text-to-speech functionality for auditory reinforcement.
2. Snap&Read Universal https://learningtools.donjohnston.com/
Snap&Read allows students to use a text-leveling too similar to the one found on Rewordify.com.Students can select text that they have a hard time understanding, and the Web browser extension will identify and replace difficult words with simpler ones. Students can highlight the main ideas of a reading, and those passage automatically extracted and placed into outline located in the browser's sidebar that can be easily edited. The outline can than be dragged and dropped into a word processor, like Google Docs, for students to integrate into a reading summary.
Newsela is a website that publishes current events articles each day on a variety of topics pertaining to most school subjects. Every article has five versions, each written for students at different reading levels. After a student reads the version that matches her skill level, she can take corresponding quizzes to test her knowledge. A professional subscription to the site allows teachers to integrate Newsela more deeply and meaningfully into their classrooms. For example, they can gather data and track the reading progress of individual students or entire classes. They can also create and assign writing prompts based on particular articles as a means of further assessing their students’ comprehension.
After I learned about technology that related to improving the ability in the field of reading, what I've learned is very helpful to me and made it easier to do things in my life. I'll use whatever technology that I have learned after attending this course when I teach later that students are now not wrong in using the existing technology and also to change how interesting teaching in the class so that the students do not feel bored with the method of learning that has been in the previous feel.
"Whether mobile phones become the literary devices of choice, whether e-reader bounce back or some unforeseen "disruptive"technology emerges, the now steady to precipitous decline in e-book sales will likely mitigate (for now) doom-and-gloom prophesying about literature and its future. The overall health of literature is not determined by its platform [...] Devices are not dangerous for literature. People can be dangerous for literature." - Jonathon Sturgeon.
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