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Astaylor's List: Misinformation Debate Team B

  • Jul 14, 14

    www.ascd.org/...ology-to-Improve-Literacy.aspx

    • In the classroom, some educators are attempting to harness the power of technology to increase literacy rates for struggling students, but does using technology really make a difference? An initial assessment of the research on the current generation of technology used to aid literacy yields interesting, if somewhat lackluster, results.
    • Stanford University education professor Michael Kamil, an advocate of technology's role in the classroom, notes that the national evaluation Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort found that technology didn't significantly influence student performance.

  • Jul 14, 14

    newsroom.ucla.edu/...logy-producing-a-decline-79127 declined literacy

    • "By using more visual media, students will process information better," she said. "However, most visual media are real-time media that do not allow time for reflection, analysis or imagination — those do not get developed by real-time media such as television or video games. Technology is not a panacea in education, because of the skills that are being lost.
        
       
        
      "Studies show that reading develops imagination, induction, reflection and critical thinking, as well as vocabulary," Greenfield said. "Reading for pleasure is the key to developing these skills. Students today have more visual literacy and less print literacy. Many students do not read for pleasure and have not for decades."
        
       
        
      Parents should encourage their children to read and should read to their young children, she said.
        
       
        
      Among the studies Greenfield analyzed was a classroom study showing that students who were given access to the Internet during class and were encouraged to use it during lectures did not process what the speaker said as well as students who did not have Internet access. When students were tested after class lectures, those who did not have Internet access performed better than those who did

  • Jul 14, 14

    www.dailymail.co.uk/...racy-skills-charity-warns.html declined literacy

    • A survey, conducted by The National Literacy Trust, found that 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book.

      Worryingly, only 12 per cent of those who read using new technology said they really  enjoyed reading, compared with 51 per cent of those who favoured books.

      Pupils who get free school meals, generally a sign they are from poorer  backgrounds, are the least likely group to pick up a traditional book, the research found.

  • Jul 15, 14

    www.bjupress.com/...declining-literacy.php declined literacy

    • Defining literacy as "using printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one’s goals, and to develop one’s knowledge and potential," the assessment found that "average prose literacy decreased for all levels of educational attainment between 1992  and 2003" although "the educational attainment of America’s adults increased between 1992 and 2003." Even though more adults have completed more education, their reading is weaker.

       

      But wait—there’s more troubling news. A recent report from ACT, the nonprofit American College Testing program, reveals that "only half of the 1.2 million high school seniors who took its test in 2005 are prepared for the reading requirements of a first-year college course."2

       

      The impact of this declining literacy is far-reaching. A related study conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts presents "a detailed but bleak assessment of the decline of reading’s role in the nation’s culture." Entitled Reading at Risk, the report of this survey of national trends among American adults reveals that "literary reading in America is not only declining rapidly among all groups, but the rate of decline has accelerated, especially among the young."3

    • Although recent reading textbooks again emphasize phonics, the damage done seems to have far-reaching ramifications. The mainstream textbook  publishers have adjusted the books in all disciplines to the students’ inability to read. Rather than raising the bar, they’ve lowered it to accommodate the lower-reading levels of most students.
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