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Update Your Classroom with Learning Objects and Twenty-First Century Skills

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Update Your Classroom with Learning Objects and Twenty-First Century Skills

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This article will be beneficial to this study because it explores the attributes of twenty-first century curriculum and natural ways in which to integrate technology into the classroom.  As technology changes the nature of the classroom it can also better meet the needs of todays’ millennial students and aid in supporting a modern twenty-first century curriculum.  The skills identified to be taught include the following; digital age literacy, technological literacies, effective/interactive communication, and high productivity, to name a few (Cramer, 2007, p.128).  The article also reiterates the importance of how technology and learning objects can be used to transform learning in the classroom.

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This article was useful for research because it touched upon technological literacy, digital literacy, and effective communications. The author’s note that even though students must be able to read, write, listen, and speak, they must be able to decipher meaning and express ideas through a range of media.  Participating in the digital world requires also a variety of technology tools to be used in effective ways in order to increase productivity.  Technological literacy is essential for students understanding of life skills as well as job readiness.  Further explained is how effective communication skills are vital for success in the future.  Specifically noted is how interactive communication, “exchanging means using a range of contemporary tools, transmissions, and processes” (Burkhardt, Monsour, Valdez, Gunn, Dawson, Lemke, and Martin, 2003, p. 47).  Finally, the article concludes with moving forward and ways to bring twenty-first century skills to the school.

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Creating our future: Students speak up about their vision for 21st century learning

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Creating our future: Students speak up about their vision for 21st century learning

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This study is a good article for an action research project because it reveals a realistic view from students on how technology is being used to drive student achievement and productivity.  Results from the study show the following related to students’ use of digital resources as related to school work; seventy-nine percent (79%) of students use digital resources for completing school writing assignments and sixty-three percent (63%) use digital resources to create notes and/or highlight.  With an abundance of school related work being completed using a computer, the ability to effectively type is crucial to embrace this new vision of education.  Driving student productivity and achievement through technologies (keyboarding) also allows for more student interest in content and work.

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This article is important for research because it reiterates how student development of basic touch typing skills is a fundamental part of an effective computer literacy program.  It further describes the importance of a keyboarding as a communication and data entry tool as well as how “keyboarding has become a necessary personal, academic, and professional skill” (CTE Resource Center, 2012, p. 5).  For example, when students enter the work force in later years, they will most likely use computers.  The article emphasizes that through the knowledge and learned skill of touch typing, students will not only succeed in their classes, but also expand future opportunities in the job market.  Also suggested is how the work habits developed in keyboarding assist students in planning and successfully carrying out projects in other classes.

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CTE Resource Center - Verso - Keyboarding Methodology Instructional Guide for Teachers and Administrators (2012)

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Supporting Career and Technical Education in Virginia's Public Schools 2002 Bremo Road * Lower Level * Henrico, VA 23226 * Ph: 804-673-3778 * Fax 804-673-3798 * info@cteresource.org The CTE Resource Center is administered by Henrico County Public Schools for the Virginia Department of Education.

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The Status of Elementary Keyboarding: A Longitudinal Study

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The Status of Elementary Keyboarding: A Longitudinal Study

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This study is great for research because it looked specifically at the instruction of keyboarding to students.  Even though the study was conducted on the elementary level, it is relevant because the specific areas of touch typing curriculum studied included time allocation, software/textbook usage, reinforcement strategies, and environmental setting of students. The traditional ‘hunt-and-peck’ method of typing is found to be inefficient for students in today’s society, however through learning touch typing in the classroom student’s benefit in a variety of ways.  Furthermore, research from Rogers, Laehn, Lang, O'Leary,  and Sommers (2003) expresses how touch typing aids in improvement in language arts (reading, spelling, and writing ability), techniques for the computer, motivation, creative thought, preparation for the future, and in cross-curricular areas.

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A New Look @ Reserach -Based Keyboarding Instruction

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A New Look @ Reserach -Based Keyboarding Instruction

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This study explores how introducing keyboarding early aids in improving language arts, writing, spelling, reading comprehension, and word processing.  Writing intern develops faster through word processing because essential keyboarding skills emphasize growth in concepts.  “Mastering keyboarding involves learning technique, ergonomics, and key location” (Zeitz, 2007).  The author suggests using instructional software in order to target skills of keyboarding along with other computer activities in order to increase students’ overall touch typing success. This article will influence research because it shows how keyboarding skills aid typing from the thought process directly onto the computer.  In mastering keyboarding, technique is found to be the most important element when learning, practicing, and applying touch typing to any platform.

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A New Look @ Research-Based Keyboarding Instruction

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Last summer I wrote a white paper for Sunburst Technologies, A New Look @ Research-Based Keyboarding Instruction, which was a review of the existing research in teaching keyboarding.

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Digital Literacy Skills for Faculty & Students 

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Digital Literacy Skills for Faculty & Students 

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This video is useful for research because it examines digital skill sets critical for students in to be effective in today’s society.  As students today are techy, social, connected, and collaborative, they require specific skills in which to participate online; reading critically, checking data and information, and asking questions.  Through infusing digital literacy skills into the classroom, activities can be shaped to push students beyond simple content recognition.  Touch typing abilities learned in the classroom can stretch beyond simple application.  Keyboarding can be further examined for relevance of context, cross-curricular relations, and accuracy within content.

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Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for SurvivalSkills in the Digital Era

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Digital Literacy: A Conceptual Framework for SurvivalSkills in the Digital Era

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This article is a good resource for an action research project.  The study explores how digital literacy is needed in order for students to function effectively in digital environments.  The author defines digital literacy as a “survival skill in the digital era” (Eshet-Alkalai, 2004, p. 102).  Skills referred to in this study include complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional.  Furthermore, the study shows how digital literacy may be used to measure the quality of learners’ work in digital environments, as well as provide a more effective means of communication in designing better user-oriented environments.  Focusing mainly on reproduction literacy and information literacy, the study shows how digital literacy itself can be refined and how student students function differently in these different digital environments.

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This article is a great tool for research.  Moore-Hart studies the incorporation of keyboarding and technology related tools in the classroom with both emerging and developing learners.  Results from the study show that from the incorporation of technology in the classroom that overall improvement of students’ typing abilities, reading fluency, and communication (writing) using word processing tools developed.  Further findings suggest that technology stimulates literacy learning through challenging experiences (Moore-Hart, 2008).  Moore-Hart (2008) additionally suggests that beyond the development of communication, “opportunities for problem solving, language development, and higher-level thinking evolved naturally” (p. 196) using technology.  Therefore, it can be seen that the incorporation of technology and lessons taught on the computers led to improved keyboarding and writing skills among students.  Additionally, sample writings of developing learners show extended writing time spent, stronger evidence of review, and more clearly written text.

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Abstract

This study investigates how two elementary teachers begin to use technology in a private school that had access to technology at many levels. Using a collaborative teacher-research model, the researcher specifically examined how to support teachers' practice as they integrated technology tools within their literacy curriculum. Due to a supportive context, the teachers refined their writing instruction to include technology tools, and students improved their literacy through challenging learning experiences.

Recommended Citation

Moore-Hart, M. A. (2008). Supporting Teachers in their Integration of Technology with Literacy. Reading Horizons, 48 (3). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol48/iss3/4

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Supporting Teachers in their Integration of Technology with Literacy

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This study investigates how two elementary teachers begin to use technology in a private school that had access to technology at many levels. Using a collaborative teacher-research model, the researcher specifically examined how to support teachers' practice as they integrated technology tools within their literacy curriculum.

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Communicate Effectively by Learning Typing

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Communicate Effectively by Learning Typing

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This video clip is a good reference to use for an action research project.  The narrator expresses how verbal communication has been replaced with written communication in the twenty-first century.  Words are less often communicated through vocal cords and now are being conveyed through typing with fingers.  However, with the abundance of communication in today’s society, there is one thing in common – the majority of it is typed on the computer. This distinct change in how we communicate with one another shows the need for students and adults alike to attain a strong touch typing ability that will allow for active participation in today’s society.  The ability to touch type effectively is now more important than ever.

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Communicate Effectively By Learning Typing

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Most of our communication channels these days involve typing. When you learn to type faster, especially when you learn how to touch type, you will be able to interact faster and much better not only with your e-mails, but also in your conversations in the most important public space we have today: the Internet.

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This study explores the use of keyboarding for writing in the classroom.  Touch typing “is not a simple skill to acquire and maintain, and achieving fluency while keyboarding requires many hours of practice” (Preminger, Weiss, & Weintraub, 2004, p. 194).  The three phases to keyboarding include cognitive, associative, and autonomous.  Benefits to keyboarding and using the computer are found to benefit the writing process through legible, accurate, and more efficient writings.  Furthermore, the authors of the study do find students to be less hesitant to edit their written work, hence increasing the productivity and quality of their work overall.  It was also found that using the computer to type text improves students' attitudes towards learning to write (and communicate).  Alternatively, the study finds that if students are not familiar with keyboarding, their touch typing speed may decrease overall, with the quality of their writing becoming affected.