Struggling readers are often unengaged with reading content and score below basic proficiency levels (NAEP, 2005). Remediating reading to students who read below grade level presents the challenge of engaging students in a task at which they have experienced little success. For that reason, reading is not a skill these students are not motivated to learn. How do educators, who remediate struggling readers, design a system or multi-faceted systems of academic delivery that will engage middle and high school students in text at and above grade level? Examining one facet of that system was the focus of my Action Research project.
I reviewed my Action Research project with Cedric McClain, a critical friend and coworker and my classmate Karmiko Burton.
Karmiko Burton made reccomendations regarding formatting. She suggested placing all text in the presenter's note section and to place only a few bullet points on the screen.
Cedric McClain stated:
This is an excellent topic for your Action Research project and the tools you chose to study this problem were excellent 21st century tools; mobile learning, web 2.0 tools and online gaming. The one thing I would add when you present this to a publisher is to state what specific mobile learning application, web 2.0 tool and online gaming application you used and what area of reading they addresses. This is excellent topic and there is a critical need for effective programs to address literacy. Excellent job on your Keynote presentation it is very clean and visually appealing, keep up the excellent work.
The URL to my keynote is:
files.me.com/clarki1/50acu1.key.zip
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