Chapter 9 - Technology in English and Language Arts Instruction

TPACK - Technology Pedagogical Content Knowledge - what teachers need to know in order to integrate technology into teaching

Issues & Problems for ELA

• Changing definition of literacy - important for students to learn how to learn new technologies to remain literate and achieving literacy is continual process
• Some skills needed now by students - finding credible sources, hardware and software function, presenting projects and papers with word processing and image displaying programs, etc.
• Should we teach keyboarding or just expect them to type up their papers?
• Diverse Learners - cultures, disabilities, ELL
• Motivating students!
• IRA (International Reading Association) - set up standards for students but to fulfill them, we need teacher education and funding

Strategies for ELA Instruction:

Language skills

• Decoding skills, phonetics software
• Fluency resources - Imagination Station, Balanced Literacy, FOCIS
• Talking word processors

Literacy Development

• Projects that include Internet - story starter + email
• Interactive story books
• AR
• Video Projects - iMovie - have students create a story using software to put it in a different format
• Blogs
• Online Book Club

Writing as a Process

• Pre-writing - electronic outlines and mapping - http://www.readthinkwrite.org/, Inspiration
• Drafting - electronic note cards
• Revising and Editing - Track Changes and highlighting to show peer reviews
• Publishing - put projects up online to share with other students or teachers