Computerized method and system for teaching prose, document and quantitative literacy
First Claim
1. A method for teaching literacy skills comprising computerized multimedia instruction means, said method comprising:
- (a) providing literacy instruction for identifying the structures of printed material;
(b) providing literacy instruction for understanding the structures of printed material;
(c) providing literacy instruction for understanding the uses of printed material;
(d) providing literacy instruction for applying strategies for locating and for processing information from printed material; and
(e) selecting at least one of said literacy instructions and providing exercises and questions relating to said at least one of said literacy instructions.
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Abstract
A multimedia computerized literacy system providing for and enhancing the teaching of Literacy Skills to enable people to function more effectively in schools, society, and the workplace. The design of the system is based on the identification and understanding of the structures, contents, and strategies which underlie prose, document, and quantitative literacy. In particular, the system'"'"'s design is based, in part, on the Knowledge Model Procedure, which builds upon a unique taxonomy of document structures, contents, and strategies in a way that facilitates the transfer of Literacy Skills across the wide array of document types, as well as across quantitative and prose Literacy Skills. In accordance with the Knowledge Model Procedure, the computerized literacy system, through a series of structure and use lessons, provides students with the skills to perform document, prose, and quantitative tasks of increasing complexity. The system uses specially designed exercise and practice tasks to enhance students'"'"' abilities to perform literacy tasks commonly required of adolescents and adults in modern society.
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38 Claims
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1. A method for teaching literacy skills comprising computerized multimedia instruction means, said method comprising:
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(a) providing literacy instruction for identifying the structures of printed material; (b) providing literacy instruction for understanding the structures of printed material; (c) providing literacy instruction for understanding the uses of printed material; (d) providing literacy instruction for applying strategies for locating and for processing information from printed material; and (e) selecting at least one of said literacy instructions and providing exercises and questions relating to said at least one of said literacy instructions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computerized multimedia literacy skills teaching system, wherein said literacy skills comprise identifying the structures of printed material, understanding the structures of printed material;
- understanding the uses of printed material; and
applying strategies for locating and processing information from printed material, and wherein operation of the system is controlled by a computer program, said system comprising;(a) storage means for storing textual, graphical, sound, and video information relating to the teaching of said literacy skills in discrete lessons segments, and exercises and questions relating to the information; (b) selecting means for providing a menu of said lesson segments; (c) control means for users to control the textual, graphical, sound, and video information displayed on the output means; (d) output means for displaying said textual, graphical, sound, and video information to a user; and (e) processing means for retrieving the textual, graphical, sound, and video information from the storage means and displaying the retrieved information on the output means for one of said lesson segments based on selections made by the user utilizing the selecting means and the control means. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24)
- understanding the uses of printed material; and
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25. A computerized multimedia literacy skills method for teaching document literacy skills comprising providing literacy instructions for identifying the structure of a document, for understanding the structures of a document, for understanding the uses of a document, and for applying strategies for locating and processing information from a document;
- selecting at least one of said literacy instructions;
providing exercises and questions relating to said at least one of said literacy instructions;
retrievably storing student responses to said exercises and questions;
providing hints and answers to said exercises and questions; and
comparing said student responses to said stored answers and providing feedback based on the results of said comparison;
wherein said document types are simple lists, combined lists, intersecting lists, nested lists, pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs and form, and wherein said strategies are locating, comparing, connecting, recycling, getting oriented, and getting the picture.
- selecting at least one of said literacy instructions;
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26. A method for teaching computerized multimedia literacy skills instructions comprising:
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(a) providing interactive computerized literacy instructions for identifying the structure of printed materials; (b) providing interactive computerized literacy instructions for understanding the structures of printed materials; (c) providing interactive computerized literacy instructions for understanding uses of printed material; (d) providing interactive computerized literacy instructions for understanding the uses of printed material; (e) providing interactive computerized literacy instructions for applying strategies for locating and for processing information from printed material; (f) selecting at least one of said interactive computerized literacy instructions and providing exercises and questions relating to said at least one of said interactive computerized literacy instructions; and (g) providing hints and answers to said exercises and questions. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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