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Today the ability to read is almost essential to be able to participate in society. If you experience reading difficulties, you are cut off from participating in society, search information on the web and in books and from reading e-mail. People with reading difficulties increasingly experience limitations in the possibilities.
For some students technology may stop reading difficulties from being a disqualifying factor. For others technology will diminish the problems connected with reading difficulties. Technology also offers the teacher tools to improve reading lessons for students with reading difficulties. Technology may help differentiate the learning scenario to match the individual student with the result that he or she will learn more.
This module is about the ways of supporting the student in the reading process. It is less about ways to compensate for reading difficulties - this aspect can be studied in the module “ICT as a compensatory tool”.
To be able to use ICT as a differentiating and supporting tool, you must be aware of the possibilities in connection with reading. You will have the opportunity to use the computer to read aloud and you will work with the combination of sound, text and pictures.
Synthetic speech is artificial sound in which the computer on basis of phonemes and phoneme compounds can pronounce anything. Synthetic speech has a machine-like sound but in connection with longer passages it is more pleasant to listen to as it has intonation, pauses and tone (prosody) as opposed to digital speech.
In this module, however, the focus is on digital speech. Digital speech is recorded voice. The words are recorded one by one, and when activated in a text, each word is pronounced correctly. Digital speech is excellent when listening to individual words or sentences but it cannot intonate. Digital speech is well suited for early reading and when teaching bilingual students. Digital speech is available in large sound collections comprising many recorded words. You can also make your own digital speech by recording sound on your computer. All modern computers can record sound.
You will learn how you and your students can record sound on the computer and how you can work with sound collections and your own recordings as support for reading-writing development, for instance in collaboration with word processing.
The module also is about scanning - how to scan a text or use a scanner pen in reading classes. Many students will benefit from texts that include more than letters. A text can be supported by pictures, or a text can “be” pictures.
For some students technology may stop reading difficulties from being a disqualifying factor. For others technology will diminish the problems connected with reading difficulties. Technology also offers the teacher tools to improve reading lessons for students with reading difficulties. Technology may help differentiate the learning scenario to match the individual student with the result that he or she will learn more.
This module is about the ways of supporting the student in the reading process. It is less about ways to compensate for reading difficulties - this aspect can be studied in the module “ICT as a compensatory tool”.
To be able to use ICT as a differentiating and supporting tool, you must be aware of the possibilities in connection with reading. You will have the opportunity to use the computer to read aloud and you will work with the combination of sound, text and pictures.
Synthetic speech is artificial sound in which the computer on basis of phonemes and phoneme compounds can pronounce anything. Synthetic speech has a machine-like sound but in connection with longer passages it is more pleasant to listen to as it has intonation, pauses and tone (prosody) as opposed to digital speech.
In this module, however, the focus is on digital speech. Digital speech is recorded voice. The words are recorded one by one, and when activated in a text, each word is pronounced correctly. Digital speech is excellent when listening to individual words or sentences but it cannot intonate. Digital speech is well suited for early reading and when teaching bilingual students. Digital speech is available in large sound collections comprising many recorded words. You can also make your own digital speech by recording sound on your computer. All modern computers can record sound.
You will learn how you and your students can record sound on the computer and how you can work with sound collections and your own recordings as support for reading-writing development, for instance in collaboration with word processing.
The module also is about scanning - how to scan a text or use a scanner pen in reading classes. Many students will benefit from texts that include more than letters. A text can be supported by pictures, or a text can “be” pictures.