Can ICTs help increase literacy?

Can ICTs help increase literacy?

Published Jan 2004

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Can ICTs help increase literacy?

There is growing awareness that it is not the learning of literacy skills that brings about social and economic benefits but the ability to use literacy in specific instances. Literacy learning must encourage the use of skills in real life situations and promote the transfer of literacy skills from the adult classroom into the external world. Can new technologies be used to develop learning materials to assist with this?

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