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How to improve literacy in all subjects using new learning technologies Paul Hynes – Programme Leader SSAT paul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk. Cheap, free, quick and easy. The 2007 Illinois Institute of Design think tank on Schools in the Digital Age.

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  1. How to improve literacy in all subjects using new learning technologiesPaul Hynes – Programme Leader SSATpaul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk Cheap, free, quick and easy

  2. The 2007 Illinois Institute of Design think tank on Schools in the Digital Age “Kids lead high tech lives outside school and decidedly low tech lives inside school. This new ‘divide’ is making the activities inside school appear to have less real world relevance to kids.” Technology use in schools Technology use outside school “a crisis of relevance”?

  3. The first 30 ideas… • 30 top tips for using learning technologies for English and literacy • Includes accessibility features, podcasting, digital video, wikis, webquests, blogs, forums etc. • Includes a CD of examples and ‘walkthrough’ videos • SSAT eshop

  4. Reading

  5. Google Lit Trips • http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Home.html

  6. Feeling original texts

  7. Software ebook readers • e.g. Microsoft Reader, Adobe Reader • Download e-books or create your own • Link to dictionary, text to speech, adding notes etc. • (MS Reader uses files in the ‘.lit’ format)

  8. Hardware ebook readers The tool you have been looking for? • Amazon Kindle • Sony Reader • iPad Format issues The solution free convertor - http://calibre-ebook.com/ Standard ones are: ePub, lit, pdf

  9. Writing

  10. GlogsterOnline posters

  11. Grammar Ninja • www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

  12. www.wordle.net

  13. Visuwords • www.visuwords.com

  14. Using Wikis • A webpage anyone can edit with no web authoring skills • Assessable and offer differentiation • See your VLE, wikispaces, ning etc.

  15. http://midsummerdreaming.wikispaces.com/

  16. Fanfiction.net • Students as authors

  17. Drake’s island • Collaborative project between Stoke Damerel Community College and Plymouth Services for Children and Young People. • Tasks used fantasy or adventure stimulus material and had a written outcome which was published in an online blog.

  18. Drake’s Island • Findings: • Stimulated and improved boys’ writing • Challenges gave them an incentive and purpose. • 93% of the boys said they felt that their English had improved as a result of the project • 73% said that reading fantasy extracts had encouraged them to read more • 75% of the boys had reached or exceeded their FFTD two terms earlier than expected. • 100% of the boys said they enjoyed using and learning in Second Life • The majority said they wanted more tasks, which would have meant more reading and written work • Comments: • ‘I have loved it and I can’t think of anything better.’ • ‘It didn’t feel the same as an English lesson it was ten times better and more amazing in everyway.’

  19. Use of Myst games series • Children swamped by high quality visual images all the time • Teacher helps them develop visual literacy skills to explain to them what it is they are watching • Children and teacher travel through the game together, in a shared experience. • Bringing concepts such as "metaphor" and "simile" alive • As part of the creative process; write about, describe, and explore through words, what they encounter and what they might mean • They are not linear games - choose the pace at which you move • More – search online for Tim Rylands

  20. Blogging - Giving students a reason to write

  21. Speaking and Listening

  22. Audiobooks • A kick start to get students interested in books? • www.archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry • Free – come in MP3 format • Play on MP3 players, phones, PlayStation Portables etc.

  23. Podcast a poem • Students and teachers record themselves and play back • Microsoft Sound Recorder or Audacity • Save as MP3 files for Mobile phones, MP3 players, PSPs, etc. • Make the audio files available through network or VLE

  24. Shakespeare shorts BBC challenge – students produce 1 minute versions of Shakespeare plays www.teachers.tv/series/shakespeare-shorts

  25. Youth Sport Trust Top Tips101+ top tips for using sport to support English (and maths) on a DVD Visit their stand in the Achievement Gallery

  26. How to improve literacy in all subjects using new learning technologiesPaul Hynes – Programme Leader SSATpaul.hynes@ssatrust.org.uk Cheap, free, quick and easy

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