Integrating technology and reading.

Nowadays is more common find a kid with and i-pod on his hand than a book. Technology is everywhere, children have i-pods, phones, laptops... and they can be combined with education. Educators should think and investigate how they can use technology to teach and motivate reading. These technologies can facilitate the reading experience in many ways and be used to enhance reading skills.

For example, media resources bring reading alive, that means that children can see photographs, do on-line activities...and all of these expand the reading experience and make it easily understood. These text materials are interactive and include graphics, video, audio, which help to motivate students.

We can use various media and technology tools for reading and literature instruction  and i the internet there are a lot of materials, but teachers may control what children are going to read, and may help students to develop a critical thinking skill needed "to read" in the internet.

Educators can find a lot of appropriate material  and is a good learning strategy allowing children to choose reading materials based on their own interests.

Here are some internet resources:


 AuthorChats.
Free online chat side between authors and school children. Sponsored by classroom conect.


Book Adventure.
Allows children to create book lists  from over 4000 books, read the books off line and return to take comprehension quizzes.


Grimm Brothers.
An electronic path finder for selecting just the rigth Grimm fairy tale.


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