Benefits of using ICT in teaching writing

Winch, Johnston, March, Ljungdahl & Holliday (2006) list the following benefits of using ICT in teaching writing -

• develops an understanding and awareness of written and visual text
• provides a high quality of presentation that can motivate students  who find handwriting difficult or messy
• allows students to reflect on their writing and to make changes easily by cutting and pasting text
• helps students to write more interesting texts because they can access a wide variety of information
• identifies, checks and corrects grammatical and spelling errors
• allows students to store and retrieve texts easily
• promotes both independant and collaborative writing
• provides possibilities for multimedia creations
• encourages students to write for longer periods because of the editing capacity
• allows for collaboration with other cultures
• gives opportunities for publishing and communicating within the classroom and worldwide
• encourages creativity
• enables student-centred teaching approaches
• easy access any time to course materials.

Reference:

Winch, G.,  Johnston. R., March, P., Ljungdahl. L. & Holliday, M. (2006). Literacy. 3rd ed. Oxford Press. Melbourne; Vic

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