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The Importance Of Technology Literacy In Students Learning

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Technology literacy plays a significant role in students learning. It is therefore crucial for educators to incorporate learning lessons and techniques that will help students build and strengthen their technology skills (McLaughlin, 2015). The literacy web tool that I am interested in exploring more extensively is Diigo. Diigo is an annotation tool that encourages students to collect resources, gather web pages, and add sticky notes and comments on their web page provided from the site (Diigo, 2017). Essential this site serves as a personal library where students can make notes and post interesting and helpful sources all in one place (Diigo, 2017). Students will also have the opportunity to share their web pages with classmates. What makes this site exciting is that students can upload a PDF file right onto their web page and make notes directly on the document. Therefore, students can opt to read science articles, take notes, highlight important information and complete assignments right on their computer.
In today's education, students are expected to read and understand complex texts, read higher level informational texts, expand their academic vocabulary and communicate their reading and learning abilities through writing, to meet the Common Core Standards (Buehl, 2014). By using this annotation web tools, students can build and develop essential literacy skills that will help them build sophisticated vocabulary, comprehend complex text, and understand important

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