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MEETING 13: READING COMPREHESION

(ROLES OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION)

A. INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS

This section will talk about strategies in reading relating to information technology, students
will understand:
1.1 Strategies of Reading.
1.2 Apply the Strategies

B. MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Instructional Goal 1.1:
Some Strategies of Reading

Research shows that skilled or expert readers possess some strategies to construct meaning
before, during, and after reading a text. When skilled students read, it is an active process.
Their minds are constantly processing information extracted from the text, e.g., questioning the
author, summarizing passages, or interpreting images. On the contrarily, struggling readers often
unthinkingly read the words on the page. For them, reading is an inactive activity. Constructing
meaning from the text does not naturally occur in the mind of a struggling reader.

Fortunately, the cognitive skills of expert readers can be taught. The most effective way for
students to learn these skills is through explicit and direct instruction. It is important that
teachers model these strategies to the class before allowing students to independently use one of
them. Modeling a strategy provides students with a clear understanding of why they were given
the task and how to complete it properly.

Below is a summary of the some strategies of highly skilled readers. The strategies can be
used with a variety of texts depending on the discipline. Examples of text include a painting, an
annual report for a business, a script for a play, a mathematical word problem, a pie chart, a
recipe, instruction for a science experiment, or information technology.

1. Activating: Students use their past experiences and/or knowledge to better understand the
text. (Example: text connections.)

2. Summarizing: Students restate the purpose and meaning of a text in their own words.
(Example: magnet summaries.)

3. Monitoring and Clarifying: Students determine if they understand the text. If there are
misunderstandings, they clarify and correct the confusion during and after reading a text.
(Example: text coding.)

4. Visualizing and Organizing: Students create mental images of the text. Graphic organizers
help to provide structure and allow students to generate ideas from the text. (Example:
graphic organizer.)

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5. Searching and Selecting: Students gather information from various resources to select that
which allows them to define key words, answer questions, or solve problems. (Example:
claim, evidence, and reasoning.)

6. Questioning: Students create questions about the text, ask themselves questions while reading
the text, and answer different levels of questions about the text from their peers and/or
teacher. (Example: question-answer relationship.)

7. Inferring: Students interpret the text and draw logical conclusions.

Roles of Computer in Education

Computers have changed the way we work, be it any profession. Computers aid
industrial processes, find application in medicine; they are the reason why software
industries developed and flourished. Computer technology has had a deep impact on
the education sector. This is also why the education system has made computer
education a part of school curriculum. The advantages of computers in education
primarily such us storage of information, audio-visual aids in teaching, access to the
internet and quick communication between students, teachers and parents.

Computer technology has made the dream of distance learning, a reality. Education is
no longer limited to classrooms. Physically distant locations have come closer due
to Internet accessibility. So, even if students and teachers are not in the same premises,
they can very well communicate with one another.
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Computers facilitate audio-visual
representation of information, thus making
the process of learning interactive and
interesting. Teachers bring presentations
on a flash drive, plug it in to a computer in
the classroom, and the teaching begins.

Today, computers are a part of almost

every industry. They are no longer limited
any specific field. They are used in
networking, for information access and
data storage, and also in the processing and
presentation of information. Computers
should be introduced early in education.
(Taken
from www.buzzle.com)
C. EXERCISES/ASSIGNMENTS.

Read the above text carefully and then decide the best answer to the question!

1. Why software industries developed and flourished?

a. Computers aid industrial processes, find application in medicine
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b. Teachers bring presentations on a flash drive

c. Easy access to the internet and quick communication
d. Computers facilitate audio-visual representation of information

2. What is the advantage of computer in education primarily?

a. Storage of information, audio-visual aids in teaching
b. They are no longer limited any specific field
c. Computers have changed the way we work
d. Find application in medicine

3. This is the advantage of computers in education, except…

a. Storage of information
b. Find application in medicine
c. Audio-visual aids in teaching
d. Quick communication between students, teachers and parents

4. ‘They’, the second line of the last paragraph, refers to:

a. Every industry
b. Computers
c. Fields
d. Classrooms

5. Computers … a part of almost every industry.

a. Were
b. Are
c. Is
d. Will

6. The word due to similarly with…

a. Because
b. But
c. Only
d. To

Write a paragraph describing the computer (s) you use at home or at work. Think about
these aspects: type/model, brand, memory, cost, screen, CPU, etc

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The components of a typical LAN

LAN, Modem, Backbone, Bridge, File Server, Gateway, Router

Study the above picture about ‘the components of a typical LAN’, and then find out the
words in the box having meaning of the following sentences!

1. A special computer that directs communicating messages when several networks are
connected together ……………….
2. A network contained within a small area, for example a company department…………..
3. A device for converting digital signals to analogue signals and vice versa to enable a
computer to transmit and receive data using an ordinary telephone line.
4. A hardware and software combination used to connect the same type of networks. It can
also separate a large network into two smaller ones and connect two LANs that are
nearby each other. ……………..

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5. A line or set of lines that connects local area networks together, as well as local area
networks with the Internet……………...
6. An interface that enables dissimilar networks to communicate, such as two LANs based
on different topologies or network operating systems. ……………..
7. A main computer that provides a storage area for data files on a network……………..

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5. http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/stratread.htm

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