Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning

by Colin Harrison

Overview

Discover how to effectively use technology to support students' literacy development. New classroom uses for technology are introduced in this easy-to-use resource that help educators enhance students' attention, engagement, creativity, and collaboration in reading and learning. Great for struggling readers, this book provides strategies for making content-area connections and using digital tools to develop reading comprehension.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781425813147
Publisher:	Shell Education
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Series:	Professional Resources
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Colin Harrison is the author of, most recently, The Havana Room (FSG, 2004). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Forewords 5

Acknowledgments 7

Chapter 1 Using Technology to Make the Teaching of Literacy More Exciting 9

Chapter 2 Strategies for Capitalizing on What Students Already Know 23

Chapter 3 Strategies for Using Digital Tools to Support Literacy Development 45

Chapter 4 Strategies for Using eReaders and Digital Books to Expand the Reading Experience 71

Chapter 5 Strategies for Teaching the Information-Seeking Cycle: The Process of Searching for Information on the Internet 87

Chapter 6 Strategies for Teaching the Information-Seeking Cycle: The Product Stage of Searching for Information on the Internet 117

Chapter 7 Strategies for Encouraging Peer Collaboration and Cooperative Learning 137

Chapter 8 Strategies for Building Communities of Writers 159

Chapter 9 Strategies for Building Teachers' Capacity to Make the Most of New Technologies 175

Appendices 197