Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g39Epru22754; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:51:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <A091025FC707AB4C89FADBB24219D75C015EBC4A@exchange3.towson.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Pitcher, Sharon" <spitcher@towson.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:943] Re: Some Tech. Based Activities X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1720 Lines: 39 I agree with your reservations. Actually, in our reading clinic we use the Internet mostly modeling for parents cites where children can read about their interests in text that they can read. We have also used Storybook Weaver and Imagination Express which are both much more interactive and creative than ACR. Dr. Sharon Pitcher Director, Towson University Reading Clinic Towson University 8000 York Road Towson, MD 21252 Phone: 410-704-2895 Web Page: www.towson.edu/~spitcher -----Original Message----- From: Vanessa Vaile [mailto:vcrary@uswest.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:942] Re: Some Tech. Based Activities Does anyone have thoughts on Renaissance Reading's ACR (Acclerated Reading Program) or other lower elementary academic reading software? The elementary school teachers working with our program swear by it & insist on using it in PACT (basically the parents WATCH the children do the program!!), but (as you may haver guessed) I have reservations. Doesn't seem all that much fun. Doesn't make ME feel like reading & my own reading inclinations border on addictive. Labels & the backs of cereal boxes can make me want to read more... this does not. Integrating computers and reading and PACT is a good idea... multiple birds with one monitor, CPU, mouse.... Adults improve computer skills informally. Parents & children do reading (or math or other) related activity together. Potentially reduces generational variant of digital divide. Parents get in habit of monitoring what children are doing with computer. Computer use extends to writing uses. And so on. Vanessa Vaile Mountainair Family Literacy Program Mountainair NM
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