Educational Technology Supports Reading and Motivates Students

Educational Technology Supports Reading and Motivates Students

Introduction

This paper discusses the educational technology and its support in reading and motivating students. There are various technologies introduced these days in educational sector which is beneficial for students in inspire the accumulation of knowledge and boost the drive for imparting information. The students and teachers highly regard the involvement of technology in educational field which also makes it convenient for teachers to teach effectively. The researches have proved correlation between the integration of technology within educational environment which is beneficial in future of students.

Discussion

Motivation using educational technology software can be a positive tool in helping all readers to build their comprehension skills, reading fluency, vocabulary and strengthen their overall school performance. By motivating students with technology, students will be more willing to learn new and exciting ideas along with convenient teaching. Technology can help students to learn new words (Walsh, 2007). Text found on the Internet, however, is already in agenda architecture and can be calmly manipulated by software programs. It is important for teachers and parents to use different strategies to help student's process text. Since information retrieved from the Internet is already in format, struggling readers can highlight words and go back to selected text.

It is important, to provide students with different opportunities to make changes and go back to reread text. While those students who are readers, with disabilities can find new ways to learn vocabulary, content and reading material online through the internet which may be perceived to be done in a more non-traditional way. Hearing or isolating the difficult learner to read in a different way may is important for comprehension. By using the computer, a student can highlight or words that they do not know, and take words out of a passage to look up and find the meanings of the passage. This can be done by looking up words in an online dictionary.

Internet Resources & E-Books

Using E-Readers and Internet Resources have improved student reading comprehension performance. Technology is considered as the means to reduce and bridge the gap between various elements. Teachers and traditional teaching method will better manage stundents accourdingg to the level of their understanding. This will enable them to build a healthy relationship with students in attempt to convey the education more effectively. Motivating students is a very positive aspect that can be done effortlessly with the recent innovations in technologies. It is regarded as the means of closing the literacy gap prevailing in the societies these days (Massaro, 2012).

The struggling readers who have a cognitive disability and not necessarily a physical disability can benefit from using Assistive Technology. There seems to be a problem for many struggling readers, their parents, and their teachers, which is that there are few cases to guide decision making about assistive technological supports when the nature of a disability is cognitive (e.g., specific learning disability, SLD) rather than physical. Thus, it can be stated that free computer programs ...