Linking Literacy and Technology: A Guide for K-8 Classrooms - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872072584 ISBN 13: 9780872072589

Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn, 2000

Synopsis

This book is essential for K(8 teachers, curriculum consultants, and supervisors trying to meet their students' needs in the 21st century. Emphasizing that instruction should drive technology and not vice versa, the book presents examples of classroom technology to help teachers support literacy goals. Also included are lesson plans for use with one of more computers in the classroom.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Linking Literacy and Technology: A Guide for K-8 Classrooms recognizes that for teachers responsible for literacy instruction, advances in technology offer a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Based on the idea that instruction should drive technology, and not vice versa, this book shares ideas, options, and opportunities for using technology in the classroom. Vignettes and examples of classroom uses of technology are presented throughout the book to highlight concepts and help teachers support literacy goals. The contributors offer lesson plans that can be used with one or more computers in the classroom or in computer labs. Each lesson plan includes objectives, materials, activities, and assessments that teachers can adapt easily for use in their classrooms.

Section 1 of the book addresses the questions of why instructional technology should be used to support literacy learning and how a teacher can begin to use it. Section 2 offers ideas for using instructional technology to support skill development, and content area learning. Section 3 explores ways in which instructional technology can be integrated in the literacy curriculum and offers strategies for meeting the challenges of integrating technology in the future. Underlying the uses for technology presented in the book is the authors' conviction that students need to be active seekers of knowledge and must construct for themselves the meaning of what they learn.

Linking Literacy and Technology is an essential resource for reading teachers, preservice and inservice teachers, curriculum consultants, and curriculum supervisors whose goal is to use technology to help children develop and use literacy for content area learning in the K-8 classroom.

About the Author:

Shelley B. Wepner is Associate Dean, School of Human Service Professions; Director, Center for Education; and Professor of Education at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.

William J. Valmont is Director of Technology for the College of Education, and Professor of Language, Reading, and Culture at The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.

Richard Thurlow is Assistant Professor of Education and Coordinator of Technology, Center for Education, at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0872072584
• ISBN 13: 9780872072589
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Wepner Shelley B., Valmont William J., Thurlow Richard