Adam Swanson's List: Technology increasing literacy skills

• Compared to school work, students surveyed said they valued texting (47 percent), writing academic papers (45 percent), and taking lecture notes (43 percent), as the top three most valuable forms of writing.
• “Our students write more than any generation in history,

• It turns out that the best texters, are the best spellers.
• The more you text, the better your literacy scores.
• The earlier you get your mobile phone, the better your literacy scores.
• The more practice you get in writing and reading, the better writer and reader you will be.
• kids that text read more than what we did as children because they have more access to writing
• I have actually read more “books” in the last little while than I ever have
• on my iPhone and/or iPad
• ease of acces

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• MENLO PARK, CA (KGO) --  A new study indicates that preschoolers become literate faster in a curriculum that uses video and online technology.
• As you can see, they're eager, they love the sound, they love the music. And I like the fact that they can get up and be engaged with the video. They don't have to just sit."
• "They're great,
• The study concluded that children, especially in low income groups, learned an average of 7.5 more letters than children who didn't use the system during the same time period.

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• every class that had iPads outperformed the non-iPad classrooms in every literacy measure
• “We are seeing high levels of student motivation, engagement and learning in the iPad classrooms.”

• Reading comprehension of Calistoga preschoolers increased from 58.5 percent to 76.4 percent, with Footsteps 2 Brilliance.

• One such study found that children who frequently view Sesame Street at age 2 score higher on school-readiness tests in kindergarten than those who don’t.
• Frequent Sesame Street viewing in preschool is associated with grade point averages in high school
• 16% higher than those of children who didn’t grow up watching the show.
• grades are also better in each of the core areas of English, math, and science.
• read more books for pleasure, place higher value on academic achievement, and express less aggressive attitudes than those who watch rarely or not at all.
• math, with literacy scores of 4-year-old viewers 67% higher than those who don’t watch.

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