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=**Tutorial Group One.**=


 * Task Two: What are the implications of new technologies for Literacy.**

Group One Response: Their are both positive and negative factors affecting the use of new technologies in literacy. Students use technology everyday and are able to create prior meaning from their current knowldge, by reflecting on their work. This also creates a link between students learning and their environment/community, demonstrating the relevance of their learning. Teachers may find the negative factors include, students handwriting suffering, using spellcheck as well as the common use of 'abbreviations' used when texting may affect spelling and students writing skills.

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Students find it easier to interpret and understand texts as they are relevant to their situations and learning environments, as well as the fact they are exposed to them everyday. Although there are many new technologies, students may lose skills associated with 'old technologies' such as handwriting and grammar. Positives however, encourage students to fully engage with their learning experience and develop collaborative learning skills.

Group Three Response: New technologies can be beneficial to use within classrooms, however care must be taken to ensure that the content and use is relevant. Technology is to be used as a pedagogical tool and students will need to know about the implementation of ICT into their assessment.

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 * Task Two: Using the Internet for Good and not Evil.**

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=**Tutorial Group Two.**=


 * Task Two: What are the implications of new technologies for Literacy.**

Group One Response: New technologies aim to improve literacy and keep up with current literacies. Literacy is ever-changing and increasingly multi-modal. This is mainly a good thing, because students can find success no matter what their strengths, but can be a negative when students are overwhelemed or when teachers are not trained to implement technology. When a teacher becomes favourable to new technolgies, there are a number of ways to increase literacy learning through creating new ways to teach, learn, and succeed.

- Heightens student motivation. - Easier for different learners to learn.

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 * Task Two: Using the Internet for Good and not Evil.**

Group One Response: Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning web resources into activities appropriate for learners. It helps you combine the ** Filaments ** of the web with a learner's ** mentality **. Filamentality tries to make web-based learning more effective and efficient than aimlessly wandering around on the Internet looking for “good stuff” and hoping for positive outcomes.

Group Two Response: Format-A stereotypical webquest sees a team of students accessing websites in order to produce the tecnology enhanced group product. Alignment with Bloom's Taxonomy- It is on the Analyse level ( Compare, organise, question, research, deconstruct, outline and attribute. Best teaching/learning situation- As a research tool for exploring concepts, using the collation of relevant websites, videos, activities etc.

Group Three Response: __**Quest Garden**__ Description of the format: Students are given a scenario and task. They then need to work (usually in groups) to explore the task and come up with a response or position. This usually involves the students developing some sort of project piece (report, article, 3d structure etc). There is also a teacher page, which provides teachers with information based on what resources are required, the appropriate age group, links to curriculum and other information. Blooms: This is a high level of Blooms as students are required to work through an inquiry-based activity. Students are required to use higher order thinking. Situations: These are great as an inquiry-based project where students are able to explore the topics in more detail.

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=**Tutorial Group Three.**=


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