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Digital Literacy and the Struggling Reader

As teachers in the 21st century, we are faced with an awesome task of preparing the students we teach today for the world they will interact in. In doing so, it is necessary to teach them to become literate. This term literate has changed over the years, depending on the current culture of the times. We live in the digital age. Most of our everyday activities involve some kind of technology. Whether it is the computer, cell phone, or Ipod, technology is all around us and changing everyday. The children we teach today, must not only be literate with today's advances, but be prepared to work with technology not created yet. This means they muat be able understand basic computer concepts and skills so that they can use computer technology in everyday life to develop new social and economic opportunities for themselves, their families, and their communities.

The struggling reader is determined be that student who is identified as having 2 or more years difference between the instructional level and the grade level. Digital literacy can be instructed to appeal to these students who learn through multiple intelligences. Digital literacy addresses a constructivist approach to teaching. "Learning is more authentic if the learner acquires the skill in a way that they can construct its meaning"(Kauch&Eggen, 1998). Digital literacy has a practical purpose in the global world we live in today. Allowing students to exchange ideas and collaborate with others outside of the classroom can develop many of the process skills that struggling readers lack.