...a private high school in the Midwestern United States. The study is framed by the notion that literacy is a socially, culturally, and historically situated discursive construct rather than a purely individualized cognitive endeavor. This social constructivist theory of literacy emphasizes the social conditions necessary to navigate the economic, social, and political worlds of the 21st century. The purpose of the study was to explore the students‟ multiliteracy practices that they enact through their activities within digital popular culture. Data collection methods included synchronous interviews facilitated by video conferencing tools as well as observation of the participants‟ online activities and member checks conducted via email and instant messaging. The analytic strategy employed during this study was informed by Clarke‟s (2005) situational analysis method. The study‟s findings indicate that literacy practices in which the study participants have engaged through informal learning activities within digital youth culture have had a much greater impact on enabling them to cultivate the multimodal literacies necessary within a postmodern digital era than have their formal educational experiences. Keywords: Literacy; multiliteracy; digital popular culture; online, digital media; youth Introduction The experiences of students in today‟s U.S. schools as they gain the literacies necessary to participate in...
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...Technology with Adult Literacies Learners in Scotland A overview of the E-learning Support Project August 2007 – March 2008 Scottish Government Peter Lanigan Development Co-ordinator Learning Connections [pic] Background to the Project During the period 2004 to 2007, funding was provided by Learning Connections for some 26 innovative projects around Scotland using ICT in adult literacies learning. The funding provided small grants of up to £6000 to support developments and has encouraged the use of ICT / e-learning in various different context and locations. In reviewing this programme in 2007, we decided to adopt a different approach for 2007/8 which would encourage and support local integration of e-learning into literacies learning. We engaging the services of Sheerface Ltd. to work with individual literacies partnerships across Scotland. Project Aims The contractor appointed worked with Learning Connections to develop and support local initiatives for integrating ICT / e-learning into adult literacies learning in their particular area. Funding was available to support local initiatives to try out ideas for using ICT which were new to their literacies partnership. The aims were • to raise awareness of the lessons learned from the ICT Innovations projects undertaken 2004 to 2007, and other work undertakes by Learning Connections during that period • to promote and encourage the use of e-learning in literacies provision. ...
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...Larry Howard Donna Ginn Eng-112 25 January 2014 Critically Literacy I believe anyone can be literate, but being critically literally brings your ability to another level. It defines your comprehension to fully understand what you read and being able to interpret the point the author is intending to make. A good critical response relies on how well the reader is able to analyze the text presented to them. A well rounded critically literate being questions or challenges material instead of simply accepting it is true. The hermeneutics of suspicion says “Suspend belief/judgment until we prove whether or not something is true or false” (Marxist Theory). It comes from various influences in seeing things beyond the surface and not being easily fooled by everything you see. Our response to media and how we handle we handle it plays a role in critical literacy in a two main ways, which are commercials and cyber security. Critically literacy helps us question advertising such as sports drinks commercials on television .Gatorade uses celebrity athletes to promote their products as if using their product will make you as “Great” as the celebrity. An illiterate being would easily believe the story the company is trying to tell and hard work and dedication wouldn’t simply be enough to produce the same results without their brand, or with the competitors. Companies spend much time and money finding to ways to make their advertisements seem as if using their product is common sense...
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...living in these areas. Working especially with those that are unemployed, the organisation strives to create jobs and business opportunities for the economically and socially disadvantaged. The training offered to individuals recognize the issues that arise due to the socio-economic situation in these poverty-stricken communities and aim to address social issues such as HIV/AID, literacy and numeracy as well as teaching students practical skills. (http://www.learntoearn.org.za/OurPhilosophy.htm) Learn to Earn has training centres in Khayelitsha, Cape Town as well as in Zwelihe, near Hermanus. Since its establishment in 1989 more than 8800 people have been trained with various skills that would allow for potential employment. The core purpose of Learn to Earn is to empower individuals to provide for themselves and their families. By doing so, the training equips them with life skills to make them aware of human dignity and their human right to live a fulfilling and meaningful life based on self-respect. Some of Learn to Earn’s objectives are: * To train and develop all learners’ basic business, literacy and life skills. * To restore self-respect and dignity to people of disadvantaged communities and thus increasing their quality of life. * To train unemployed and disadvantaged people in various skills such as sewing, woodwork, baking and computer...
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... Bisht and Preeti Kapur Centre for Research in Cognitive Systems NIIT Limited Synergy Building IIT Campus Haus Khas New Delhi 110016 India Webmaster’s e-mail: himanshut@niit.com Website: www.niitholeinthewall.com Abstract Earlier work, often referred to as the "hole in the wall" experiments, has shown that groups of children can learn to use public computers on their own. This paper presents the method and results of an experiment conducted to investigate whether such unsupervised group learn ing in shared public spaces is universal. The experiment was conducted with "hole in the wall" (minimally invasive education, or MIE) computers in 17 locations in rural India. Focus groups in each location were tested for computer literacy for 9 months. Results, which are discussed in the paper, show that groups of children can learn to use computers and the Internet on their own, irrespective of who or where they are. It is further observed that such group self -instruction is as effective as traditional classroom instruction. At the same time, such learning is considerably less expensive and independent of teachers and schools. The results point to a new pedagogy for children’s education in those circumstances where schools and teachers are either absent or not effective due to any reason. Introduction Current research on computers in education is, generally, on the influence and consequences of computers in the school settings that are characterized by direct...
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...An individual that is computer literate has many advantages in life. All high-paying jobs require its employee to be computer literate. This skill is a must in order to be successful in the workforce. Computers have become a part of our everyday lives. Life would be very difficult without them. I am very computer literate. Working on computers became a hobby of mines back in high school. Operating on one is not an easy task if one has no idea of what he or she is doing. I started out make many mistakes on computers before I became an expert at them. For example, my grandmother bought me a computer for Christmas and I was the happiest kid in the candy store. I immediately went to the games section and enjoyed them to the fullest. One day, I began to run low on disk space and decided to go into my system files and delete random files and folders that I thought were useless to the computer. Sure enough they were useless until my computer displayed symbols and signs where text should have been. It was as if my computer exhibited a different language but only through different shapes and signs. I was terrified that I had done this to my computer! My mom later called customer service to resolve the problem, but never again did I go into my system and delete random files unless I knew exactly what I was deleting! I’ve learned a lot from my mistakes on working with computers. I am now a pro in the field of computers. I’ve had clients in the past that I have worked...
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...Article 30 Digitalk: A New Literacy for a Digital Generation The use of instant messaging and the wording that a lot of young people use is very interesting. The biggest problem is that many of the children may not develop he language that is needed to hold a meaningful conversation in the world of business. This could lead to youth becoming more and more illiterate. Teaching students to separate digital from their classwork has posed some problems in writing. If we are able to teach the student how to separate digital from Standard English then we would be able to move forward in the learning process. Since such a large number of understudies utilization digital in their everyday lives. An awesome number of understudies are now code-exchanging between different dialects, whether jumping from IM to blog composing to talked dialect, and these understudies have a level of standards in everyday society. Article 34 All Joy and No Fun: Why Parents Hate Parenting Many studies have shown that people who have children are very unhappy. Today’s society makes it very hard to raise children. There are so many rules in place that it is even more difficult to make children behave. Today’s society expects so much in bringing up children that it puts added stress on the parents. Many parents feel that they never get enough time with their children because of work. Some feel that they would rather work than be with the children because of behavior issues. In the older times families all...
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...Storytelling at its Best Caitlin Lawrence ENG-114-90 Storytelling is at the centre of human experience. It is a compelling form of communication, a way to interact with each other. Storytelling is as ancient as humankind, it predates the written word and even the spoken word! Through stories we let people know what is important to us: our struggles and our life lessons, our beliefs, our values, our traditions, our hopes and our dreams. Telling stories is a way to honour our past, describe our present and shape our future. The Storytelling in Organizations bring narrative insights into the contemporary business scene by documenting and promoting the constructive role and widespread importance of storytelling in corporate, non-profit, small business, education, and other settings. Further, by clarifying the dynamic, integral relationship between narrative and organizational development, advances the role of storytellers as workplace consultants. Organizational stories provide an effective way to convey fundamental understandings necessary to workplace design and culture. The specific kind of knowledge that stories communicate is crucial. While information can be said to be the lifeblood of every organization, information alone is never enough. Crucial to success are stories that speak to the heart of why information matters. Stories supply facts with meaning, and value propositions with illustrations; they testify to core beliefs and kindle aspirations that motivate and...
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...Chapter 1 Becoming Computer Literate Exercise Assignment: Using the key terms and ideas you learned in this chapter, write a one- or two-paragraph summary for your school adviser so that he or she can use it to explain to students the importance of being computer literate in today’s job market. Using the internet, find additional examples of careers most people would not expect to require computer knowledge and show how computer literacy is still critical to success in those careers. Add these examples to your document to support your position. Summary for school adviser: Not just in today’s job market but in today’s world, no matter what position you obtain or where you go, it is always critical to show employers or others that you have knowledge in computer proficiency. Learning to write emails, memos, do excel spreadsheets and using a functional client management system will provide you with many tools and skills to free you up for thinking and doing things. Not to mention research on the web and using a good search engine. Computer literacy is so essential in this day and age because so much of the world relies on computers for doing day to day activities that make the companies run much better and become more successful. A world without computers is like a world without knowledge so if you can become computer literate then you can definitely achieve anything in life! Example of career: After exploring the internet and researching any other careers in which people...
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...It is obvious that the population density of the Republic of Serendib is very high, because there are 34 million people living in 285,610 sq km. However, the adult literacy rate is 92%, which means a majority can read and write. Thus, advertising is a good business opportunity, besides 70% population lives in rural, and while 30% live in urban, which suggests that people regularly shuttle between countryside and city. Owning to that fact, business can set billboards in the roads in order to attract people's attention and impress potential consumers. Some billboards also can be built in the downtown to get attention. It is overt that the population density of the Republic of Serendib is very high, because there are 34 million people living in 285,610 sq km. In addition, the population distribution is extremely not balanced. 70 percent people live in the bucolic, but in contrast only 30 percent people stay in municipal. In rush hours, the crowd is inevitable. Therefore, it is an opportunity niche to develop the transportation. Besides, the GDP per capita is not high, so develop more public transportation and freeway, which can save people time. Building roads can also lead many relevant peripheral industry, like concrete industry. GDP of Republic of Serendib is not high with US$ 420 billion, and the GDP per capital is US $14,580 in a low level. It is implied that the Republic of Serendib is developing country. And the country is a rural-based which also points to improving...
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...Women, both illiterate and partially literate have limited access to health care and job opportunities and remain confined to the bounds of their household chores, raising children and looking after families. A good education or qualification does not bring women at par with the men. They are still deprived of many work opportunities as men are believed to be more capable than their female counterparts with similar qualifications. The notion that women do not have caliber and intelligence to take up managerial positions or high profile jobs is another proof of the discrimination against women in our society. According to 2011 census, the female literacy rate was 65.46% compared to 82.14% for males. The underlying thought that educating women is of no value as they will only serve their husbands and family in future makes the parents unwilling to spend on girl’s education. Women are not able to enjoy equal status in society as men and have very little say or authority. The grant of equal rights by the Constitution does not bring any significant change in their position and respect in the society. Law and property rights are also enforced inefficiently and inheritance is usually the sole right of sons and not the daughters. Even though laws are now enforced for the rights of women on parental property, not many people are aware of it and the social structure is such that daughters do not usually insist on their property rights. Society favors men and gives them higher...
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...Combining the old age tradition of storytelling with the latest technology lead to compelling tool that motivates students to read more and write better. The approach is called digital storytelling. It is a good way to engage students in both traditional and innovative way of telling a story. It is emerging as a way to shape narrative and facilitates efforts to capture classroom moments for learners to reflect upon and revise practice, as well as to develop teaching consciousness. Digital stories revolve around a chosen theme and often contain a particular viewpoint. They are typically just a few minutes long and have a variety of uses, including telling of personal tales, recounting of historical events, or as a means to inform or instruct...
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...Group 2 (III-2 BECED) TEACHNOLOGY IN ECE MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Software for Teachers (Example) Assess2Achieve- is a comprehensive software package that includes planning, assessment, evaluations and report writing for teachers Benefits: • Assess2Achieve enables you to store all the assessment information for each child in one place. You are able to search for an individual child records or a group of children records as an efficient means for using assessment successfully. It enables the teacher to record individual pupil assessments rapidly, therefore saving the teacher time. • Assess2Achieve solves this problem because it is a software system that enables you to store all the evaluation information in one place. Then you are able to search for a particular subject or topic as an efficient means to using evaluations successfully. • With Assess2Achieve teachers can now pass on their back-ups to the class. future teacher to enable him/her to access more detailed information about his/her class. Data stores from different teachers can be amalgamated to give an overview of a whole school so that reports can be created with information supplied by different teachers. • The format is friendly to non-computer professionals. Assess2Achieve has a paper like look to the application, even though it is a data store. Teachers can use the software flexibly to suit the needs of the curriculum, their pupils, the differentiation...
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...* Intelligence with the ability to 1) learn, 2) problem solve, or 3) see relationships in reading * Language differences/Dialect/Cultural difference | | In Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Snow, Burns, & Griffin (1998) presented a synthesis of research on the conditions that contribute to successful reading. The authors identified the following factors as predictors of success and failure in reading: Physical and Clinical Factors | Predictors of School Entry | Acquired Knowledge of Literacy | Family-based Risk Factors | Neighborhood, Community, and School-based Factors | Cognitive deficienciesHearing problemsEarly language impairmentAttention deficit/hyperactivity disordersVision problems | Acquired proficiency in languageVerbal memoryLexical and syntactic skillsOverall languagePhonological awarenessOral Vocabulary | Reading readinessLetter identificationConcepts of printPhonemic awareness | Family history of reading difficultiesHome literacy environmentOpportunities for verbal interactionHome language other than EnglishUse of a nonstandard dialect of English in the homeSocioeconomic status | Environmental risksLow performing schoolsLow expectationsLack of resourcesConflicting community valuesNegative peer pressure | http://faculty.scf.edu/sharric/lesson2/lesson2topic4.htmWhile in Example A you may struggle to seek out the inner meaning, in Example B you are probably only interested in one or two details (or perhaps it's the other way around). Either...
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...CHAPTER 5 – Writing to reflect * Writer is OBSERVER * Kinds of documents: Memoir, photo essays, short stories, literacy narratives, reflective essays * HOW TO WRITE: * Find a conversation and Listen in: Explore ur experience -> Ask questions abt promising subjects -> Conduct an observation * Reflect on Your Subject: Examine ur subject ( explore processes, consider implications, examine similarities and differences, trace causes and effects, consider value, identify challenges and difficulties, reflect on ur experience ) -> Collect detail ( compare ur subject with something else, discuss ur ideas) -> Find significance * Prepare a draft: Convey your main idea (P137)-> Tell a story ( Setting, character, plot, conflict, climax, resolution, point of view) -> Go into detail -> Choose your point of view (third-person pronouns or first-person pronouns) -> Consider genre and design (readable font, double –spacing, using illustrations) -> Frame your reflections (Organization, Introduction and Conclusion) * Review and Improve ur draft: Ensure that ur main idea is clear -> Examine the presentation of ur observations -> Review dialogue -> Show, don’t tell. CHAPTER 6 – Writing to inform * Writer is REPORTER. * Kinds of documents: Brochures, Websites, Articles, Profiles, Informative essays. * HOW TO WRITE: * Find a conversation and Listen in: Explore ur interests (Personal interests and hobbies, Academics...
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