Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113812544X ISBN 13: 9781138125445

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

While current educational technologies have the potential to fundamentally enhance literacy education, many of these tools remain unknown to or unused by today’s practitioners due to a lack of access and support. Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction presents actionable information to educators, administrators, and researchers about available educational technologies that provide adaptive, personalized literacy instruction to students of all ages. These accessible, comprehensive chapters, written by leading researchers who have developed systems and strategies for classrooms, introduce effective technologies for reading comprehension and writing skills.

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Review:

"This book unquestionably achieves Crossley and McNamara’s goal of providing an invaluable resource for all those invested in improving the literacy skills of K-12 students and adults with reading and writing needs. The contributors―a virtual who’s-who in literacy and technology research―demonstrate not only the feasibility and utility of their tested technological systems, but also the many benefits accrued from their implementation. In light of the ever-expanding diversity in classrooms, the increasing assessment pressures on educators, and the growing demand for specialized technology knowledge, the information captured in this book is unparalleled. Every school administrator, every educational technologist, and every literacy researcher should learn from the critical information it conveys."

--Patricia A. Alexander, Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy and Director of the Disciplined Reading and Learning Research Laboratory, University of Maryland, USA

"Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction is an exciting resource for anyone wishing to make informed decisions about technology supports for reading and writing. The book identifies deliberate practice, individualized feedback, and strategy training as key components of literacy instruction. By describing the most promising current and emerging technologies this book will help teachers, decision makers, and researchers take advantage of technology for literacy instruction."

--Marcia C. Linn, Professor of Development and Cognition in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA

About the Author:

Scott A. Crossley is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University, USA.

Danielle S. McNamara is Professor in Cognitive and Learning Sciences and ISTL Senior Investigator at Arizona State University, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 113812544X
• ISBN 13: 9781138125445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Crossley Scott A.