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From Morning Message to Digital Morning Message: Moving From the Tried and True to the New
Author(s) -
Labbo Linda D.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.58.8.9
Subject(s) - literacy , reading (process) , curriculum , psychology , pedagogy , computer literacy , mathematics education , political science , law
This regular column in The Reading Teacher offers support to educators who want to take an active stance when it comes to integrating technology with the literacy curriculum. Here, the author suggests practical ways that teachers can productively link classroom computer technologies to tried‐and‐true practices. She shares her rationale for recommending that teachers use computer‐related literacy instruction, describes one tried‐and‐true practice (Morning Message) and explains how conducting it with computer technologies can enhance and amplify students' literacy‐learning experiences, and closes by inviting educators to identify and try other computer‐enhanced practices with which they are comfortable. Since technology isn't going to go away and it is changing how we look at ourselves and the world around us, I believe that it is important for schools to help students develop technological skills that will equip them for the future. Teachers are the ones who will have the responsibility to do that. Sooner or later some governmental body is going to dictate what technology use in a school means. Sometimes that works out okay, but often decisions are made not by the people who have an intimate working knowledge of how children learn but by policy makers who are far removed from the daily interactions of children in a learning environment [emphasis added]. I'd much rather take a proactive stance [emphasis added] in the integration of technology into my classroom than a reactive one. L. Stattlemeyer in Routman, 2000, p. 510