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Badia, A., Meneses, J., Sigales, C., & Fabregues, S. (2014). Factors Affecting School Teachers’ Perceptions of the Instructional Benefits of Digital Technology. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 141(2014), 357 - 36.
This article examines factors that influence how teachers perceive the effectiveness of technology in teaching and learning by using survey data. The authors found out that factors such as gender, teaching area, digital literacy, internet access rate and ICT training determine how teachers perceive the benefits of technology.
Biancarosa, G., & Griffiths, G. (2012). Technology Tools to Support Reading in the Digital Age. The Future of Children, 22(2), 139-160.
According to the authors, technology has transformed literacy …show more content…

(2007). Information Technology Literacy: Implications on Teaching and Learning. Educational Technology & Society, 10(3), 175-191.
Ezziane discusses the role of technology in teaching and learning styles. IT literacy and computer skills are important to both teachers and learners in influencing learning.
Eyal, L. (2012). Digital Assessment Literacy: The Core Role of the Teacher in a Digital Environment. Educational Technology & Society, 15(2), 37–49.
The core of teachers in the learning environment is assessment. In the digital environment, the type of assessment needed should adopt various aspects of digital technology. Digitally literate teachers are more equipped to assess student learning.
Ng, W. (2012). Why digital literacy is important for science teaching and learning. Curriculum and Learning Journal, 10(10), 1-4.
Digital literacy is necessary in learning as it enables effective learning though IT enabled devices and reduces cognitive load. The use of technology in learning enables learning in both formal and informal environments. Digital literacy is therefore important for both teachers and learners.
Colwell, J. & Hutchison, A. (2015). Supporting Teachers in Integrating Digital Technology into Language Arts Instruction to Promote Literacy. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 31(2),

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This case study will assist stakeholders with making informed decisions on utilizing technology based resource within their curriculum. The XYZ district is a very small school system. Only 20% of teachers are currently trained and instructing with various technology tools, which are problems created by mistrust of technology or hesitation born from frustration or lack of confidence and adequate training and funding (Ruggiero & Mong, 2015).This study is essential because it can supply an example of teaching and learning with one-to-one computing and establish a comprehensive understanding of ways to maximize diverse technology tools within the curriculum. Although teachers within this school district have access to the Internet and online subscriptions, many teachers are not utilizing the potential of educational benefits that technology resources offer (Blau & Peled, 2012).

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The Benefits of Technology in School in a Technological Society The Tennessean published Lisa Fingeroot’s article, “Nashville schools push for more technology,” in November of 2012. She discussed the benefits of technology that include, making learning fun with its inclusive methods, Fingeroot believes technology can improve the quality of education nationwide, and provides a very interactive and personal way for students to learn. She states that Kecia Ray, executive director of Metro schools’ learning technology department and president-elect of International Society for Technology in Education, has the goal of presenting a plan that provides technological access to more students. The first thing a reader notices to an article is the title.

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When students first start learning to read they must learn the shapes of the alphabet, the sounds they make, and many more iterative steps that develops a student 's proficiency in the traditional form of literacy. With the development of technology teachers are given more tools to teach students. In order for teachers to use these new tools properly they must know how to wield them properly. Websites, Wikis, Social media, podcasts, and video making are great ways of instructing students. While the old literacies are similar to the new literacies, new literacies take the building blocks of the old and use them in a different way.

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In this essay, I will argue about how technology is our most important literacy sponsor for our development of literacy. As a young child, my mother always used to forced books on me. Every other day was reading day and I would have to read a book to my mother. I would always look at her and cry because I hated sitting down and opening up a book that was longer than my instruction manual for my video games.

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Esea. " No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. " Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. N.p., 01 Jan. 2011. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.

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In this article, Ferriter (2009) reveals many benefits from the use of technology in the classroom with our 21st-century learners. The resources and suggestions mentioned throughout this reading will assist teachers in ways to avoid problems and becoming engaging instructors by using technology in innovative ways. What I found was so innovative by this approach was by creating a network of innovative co-learners where collaboration takes place regularly, Ferriter (2009), is able to experiment with digital connections without ever meeting other teachers in person. Not only is this beneficial for students and teachers all over the world, but also simple. What I found was unique and useful was the worldwide collaboration that helps teachers explore skills and dispositions that assisted with the network cooperation by creating shared content.

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Authors do a review of literature on the topic of at risk students to see if technology will help them excel in writing and reading. Researchers included many factors that needed to be considered before making a decision about the benefits of using technology with at-risk students. The data can be used in either a qualitative or quantitative study in the future. Castek, J., Hartman, D. J., Leu, D. J., Coiro, J., Henry, L. A., & Zawilinski, L. (2007). Thinking about our future as researchers:

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This article explores the use of wikis in the literacy classroom. A discussion of the need for using new technologies such as these, an evaluation of wikis in regards to technology standards, example student wikis, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of wikis in the English classroom are provided throughout the article. Article Review: Sherry Sanden and Janine Darragh’s article “Wiki Use in the 21st-Century Literacy Classroom: A Framework for Evaluation” explores the use and effectiveness of wikis in the English Language Arts classroom.

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“21st Century Teachers should incorporate digital and social media to engage students” In the 21st century, children from three-years of age are increasingly using digital media facilitated by their parents. Digital information comes in different formats including through literature, video-streaming services such as YouTube, and collaboration through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. These can be incorporated into a learning environment that engages students (eg. http://bertylee.weebly.com). Primary-aged children are increasingly accustomed to tablets and other touch screen devices, and we see evidence of this daily.

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As part of the class, I was introduced to Lankshear and Knobel’s (2007) New Literacies Sample . This book changed my understanding of literacy learning. The authors wrote that the technologies that we use and the social practices in which we engage are wrapped around one another, and the practice of blogging is part of the newly emerging area of digital literacy.

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In the article, Critical Media Literacy, Democracy and the Reconstruction of Education by Doug Kellner and Jeff share discuss how our century is media statured and very technology dependent. Majority of the classroom are filled with technology. Even teachers are using technology to communicate with the parents. Media Education is greatly used in K-12 schooling in the United States. Most schools have electronic tablets to read books verse using a printed book copy.

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Technology Based Assessment Newsletter In This Issue Technology Based Assessment Newsletter | 3 Having the latest and greatest technology is constantly changing the way people function in their homes, schools and work place. Technology has become essential in schools to enhance learning, computers definitely increased on-line classes and administrators have encourage teacher to make effective and practical use of technology in classrooms.

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Importance of Information Literacy Information literacy is important for today’s learners, it promotes problem solving approaches and thinking skills when asking questions and seeking answers, finding information, forming opinions, evaluating sources and making decisions fostering successful learners, effective contributors, confident individuals and responsible citizens. People need to be able to identify what is real and relevant not just for school but for learning, life and work. Information literacy skills have been around for quite some time in different guises and several frameworks and definitions have been produced both nationally and internationally.

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