By: Colleen Shannon, August Mendes

Literacy technology is the ability to responsibly, creatively, and effectively use appropriate technology. Uses:

Communication

Access, collect, manage, integrate, and evaluate information

Solve problems and create solutions

Build and share knowledge

Improve and enhance learning in all subject areas and experiences

Apply technology to real-world experiences

Personalize technology to meet personal needs, interest, and learning styles

Different types of Literacy technology

Literacy- teaching of basic literacy skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking. In today's digital world, technology has contributed.

Information Literacy: The ability to access and use information, analyze content, work with ideas, synthesize thought, and communicate results.

Digital Literacy: The ability to attain deeper understanding of content by using data-analysis tools and accelerated learning processes enabled by technology.

Computer Literacy: The ability to accurately and effectively use computer tools such as word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation and graphic software.

Media Literacy: The ability to communicate competently in all media forms—print and electronic—as well as access, understand, analyze and evaluate the images, words, and sounds that comprise contemporary culture.

Literacy Technology in the classroom

Technology literacy in the classroom improves learning, productivity and performance

Computer use for children is as essential as learning to read, write and do math

Children with access to computers and trained teachers can learn faster and learn better

Technology allows students to learn at their own pace and practice as much as they want

For students with disabilities, technology such as word processing and speech recognition can give them the tools they need to participate fully in challenging academic courses

Rosetta Stone Offers up to 31 different languages to learn from computer software

Has risen 41 % in 2008 in software buys

There are 3 levels for each language which increase with difficulty

Offers the ability to learn another language outside the classroom setting

The Rosetta Stone software uses a combination of images, text, and sound, to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills

or translation.

BloggingA blog is a frequently updated, personal

websiteIt focuses on particular topicSome are home staging, sports, or mobile

technologyOthers present links to other sitesMost common ones are personal journals or

information about someone’s daily life

WORK CITED 1. http://www.rosettastone.com/personal/how-it-works/engage 2. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cntareas/reading/li300.htm 3. http://www.ncrel.org 4. http://campus.fortunecity.com/newton/40/home.html 5. http://codex.wordpress.org/introduction_to_blogging