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Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Literacy Instruction

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. Word processing is the pioneer application of educational
technology used in writing instruction. Although it requires the mastery of
basic keyboarding skills, word processing allows many students to write and
edit their work more easily. In addition, word-processing tools such as spelling
checkers are useful aids that improve the quality of student writing. Research
indicates that students who are comfortable with word processing write longer
papers, spend more time writing and revising, and show improved mechanics and
word choice (Lehr, 1995). Nevertheless, research also indicates that using a
word processor does not by itself improve student writing. Rather, the teacher
has a critical role in guiding the writing process, providing feedback, and
encouraging revision (Reinking & Bridwell-Bowles, 1996).
A meta-analysis of 32 studies comparing
two groups of students who received identical writing instruction—with one
group using word processing for writing assignments and the other group writing
by hand—found that the quality of writing was higher for students using word
processing (Bangert-Drowns, 1993). These studies—which included various grade
levels, from college and high school down to elementary—indicated that the
greatest successes with word processing were at the higher grade levels. More
recent research indicates that younger students also benefit from word-processing
skills. A study of children's writing in a high-computer-access setting compared
to a setting with infrequent usage, conducted during a three-year period beginning
with third grade, showed that frequent use of word processing contributed to
improved writing skills (Owston & Wideman, 1997). Another study of second-grade
students indicated that word processing improved children's general writing
skills and contributed to longer compositions (Jones, 1994).
Students who are unmonitored in their technology use may not reap real benefits
in literacy. They need continued challenges and connections with the teacher
to ensure that they are attaining higher-order thinking skills. Healy (1998),
for example, warns that the activities offered on software programs often require
only shallow processing and do not contribute to children's real learning.

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epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge or of how we come to know
Methodology is focused on the specific ways -- the methods -- that we can use to try to
understand our world better.
A lot of our stereotypes about science come from a
period where science was dominated by a particular philosophy -- positivism
positivism is a
rejection of metaphysics
goal of knowledge is simply to describe the
phenomena that we experience
he purpose of science is simply to stick to what we can
observe and measure.
B.F. Skinner argued that psychology needed
to concentrate only on the positive and negative reinforcers of behavior in order to
predict how people will behave -- everything else in between (like what the person is
thinking) is irrelevant because it can't be measured.
The
positivist believed in empiricism -- the idea that observation and measurement was
the core of the scientific endeavor.
A post-positivist might begin by recognizing that the way scientists think and work and
the way we think in our everyday life are not distinctly different. Scientific reasoning
and common sense reasoning are essentially the same process.
he difference is that the post-positivist critical
realist recognizes that all observation is fallible and has error and that all theory is
revisable

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Learning Theories of Instructional Design

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