- Innovative thinking can occur through the use of technology
- Inclusion for all students in the classroom
- Higher student engagement
- Technology integration
- Easily transferred to home life or other social networks of friends
- Community connections
- Meaning making
- Students reading more frequently
- Students reading for longer periods of time
- Development of critical thinking
- Increase in fluency
- Development of vocabulary
- Broadening a students schema
- Collaboration through literacy instruction
Cons To New Literacies:
- Sufficient funds for schools to purchase materials and equipment needed
- Does the reader maintain full engagement while being involved in the text
- Lack of preparation from the educator to utilize technology properly
- Consistency in authentic and appropriate text for students
- Ensuring the safety of your students through the use of the internet
- That the technology is not equipped to meet the Common Core Standards requested by the state.
- Little consistency in multimedia formatting of information
- Little in the way of quality control of information that is constructed and communicated
- Amount of information [“info-garbage”] can be overwhelming
- Many resources are out of date or have not been updated for years
- Digital manipulation is a popular form of deception
- Information for kids is intertwined with hidden social, economic and political agendas
References:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBMBLhqMGjecUL0b1amqeSw
http://www.lite.iwarp.com/compint.html
http://www.lite.iwarp.com/compint.html
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