Travisscott95's List: Group digital literacy project

• The majority of studies they found dealt with reading comprehension and vocabulary development.
• Pearson et al. concluded that a wide range of digital tools enhance reading comprehension and vocabulary development by providing students access to word pronunciation, word meaning, contextual information, and comprehension scaffolds to guide an individual’s reading.
• Numerous other studies demonstrate that students who learn in existing multimedia and/or hypertext environments show greater gains in areas of language development than students who learn in more traditional environment
• Zhao concluded that technology can be used to enhance language
• Enhancing comprehensibility through learner control and multimedia annotations.
• Digital reading materials can be hyperlinked to different media, which students can choose to help their comprehension of the material.
• Providing meaningful and authentic communication opportunities. Students can engage in authentic types of communication through e-mail, chat rooms, and other digital means.
• When reviewing this body of research they found convincing evidence that technology can be effective in teaching basic skills, can significantly improve scores on standardized achievement tests, can provide the means for students with special needs to communicate via e-mail, and can help teachers accommodate students’ varying learning styles.

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