Digital Texts

What do you think about digital texts? What does the future hold?

I think that digital texts can be very helpful for some students. This will allow students to read at their own pace and also have the opportunity to look up a word or click on a link that will provide addition information. Digital texts allow students with fine motor difficulties to get words on a paper by typing. I also really enjoyed what we talked about in class by making links within the text for students to look words up that they may not know. I also found it very interesting when some of the students talked about how they had bad handwriting and they would be more focused on their handwriting than their answers. Digital texts would help them a ton. They could just type up their answers and that would hopefully solve the problem.

I think the future holds a lot more than digital texts. Things will involve a lot more technology in the future. There has been a on of technology advancements just in the last couple years. I think there will be especially a lot more e-books.

My sister owns a kindle and she loves it. It allows her to travel with multiple books but on one device and a device that is small. The kindle makes it a lot more convenient to carry a book/books around. It also has many different features on it to help guide reading. I know it has a dictionary that you can look up words as you read. This would a be a great tool for students to use while reading because almost everyone comes across a word they do not understand and its a lot easier to be able to look it up right then and there, rather than have to wait and look it up at a later time.

In one of the classrooms I was in there was a 1st and 2nd grader with emotional impairments. When it came to writing a letter to another student, the 1st grader typed it on the computer and the 2nd grader wrote it on paper. Both students had the correct formatting of the letter, both sounded out words, both made their own sentences. It was great! I really enjoyed seeing something like this happening because the accommodation that was made for the 1st grader allowed him to also write a letter whereas if he were to write it with a pencil/pen he may not have been able to write his letter.

So, overall digital texts can be very important and helpful for some students to be able to advance with their writing and reading skills.