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IGI Global, 2018
In the digital age, numerous technological tools are available to enhance educational practices. When used effectively, student engagement and mobile learning are significantly increased. "Social Media in Education: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice" contains a compendium of the latest academic material on the usage, strategies, and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Educational Practices, Technology Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning)
Gardiner, Veronica; Cumming-Potvin, Wendy; Hesterman, Sandra – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
In response to rapidly changing communication practices in an increasingly technological world, evolving literacy concepts such as multimodality, are now acknowledged in the new Australian Curriculum. Ironically, primary school teacher professional development in Western Australia remains closely tied to a mono-modal, print focussed paradigm. This…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Books, Clubs, Foreign Countries
Linik, Joyce Riha – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
At a middle school, English language learners "beg" to take quizzes via iPod, engaging in interactive language arts exercises that seem more game than test. In a high school classroom, students write, videotape, and edit public service announcements, documentaries, and films. Students from the Seattle metropolitan area create stories via…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teaching Methods, Information Skills, Knowledge Economy
Page, Melissa A. – English Journal, 2012
The classroom dynamic has become a competition of whose information is more important: the quickly accessed and popular digital texts or the perhaps less popular print texts. Whether or not teachers or school systems sanction the reading or teaching of popular culture texts in the classroom, students are reading--are even bombarded with--messages…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Skills, Popular Culture, Layout (Publications)
Hayes, Elisabeth R., Ed.; Duncan, Sean C., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
As video games have become an important economic and cultural force, scholars are increasingly trying to better understand the ways that engagement with games may drive learning, literacy, and social participation in the twenty-first century. In this book, the authors consider games and just as importantly, the social interactions around games,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Video Games, Epistemology, Multiple Literacies
Al-Hazza, Tami Craft; Lucking, Robert – Reading Improvement, 2012
This research study examined the values and perceptions of prospective teachers relative to a series of issues in what has become known as the New Literacies, the way youngsters read, seek information, and react to it through use of new technologies. The findings of this research reveal significant differences between female and male prospective…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes, Multiple Literacies
Blank, Jolyn – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2012
Early literacy instruction is receiving increasing emphasis. Many teachers of young children recognize that skills such as identifying and forming letters and practicing oral language skills are important (Helm & Katz, 2010). At the same time, teachers also report feeling pressure to focus on intensive drill and practice of isolated skills such as…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Early Childhood Education
Yu, Eunjyu – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 2014
In a study designed to analyze faculty and student perceptions of the value of digital writing in the first year composition classroom, 21 first-year college students and a nationwide sample of 50 college composition teachers participated in conceptualizing digital multimodal composition and defining the benchmarks for first-year college digital…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Freshman Composition, Electronic Publishing, Benchmarking
Lynch, Julianne; Redpath, Terri – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2014
With the revolution that has taken place in the functionality and uptake of portable networked "smart" technologies, educators are looking to see what potential applications such technologies might have for school education. This article reports on a study on the use of portable personal computing devices in the early years of schooling.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
Rodrigo, Russell; Nguyen, Tam – Journal of Learning Design, 2013
This paper presents a qualitative case study of socialised blended learning, using a social network platform to investigate the level of literacies and interactions of students in a blended learning environment of traditional face-to-face design studio and online participatory teaching. Using student and staff feedback, the paper examines the use…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Case Studies, Inclusion, Blended Learning
Catlin, Susan Jane – Canadian Journal of Education, 2013
My action research investigation into place-conscious writing practices invited experienced Non-Aboriginal teachers from the Northwest Territories to think through writing practices that might engage Northern students, many of whom are Indigenous. In this paper, I will focus on what the teachers had to say about the influences of aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Place Based Education, Learner Engagement
McLean, Cheryl A.; Rowsell, Jennifer – Teaching Education, 2013
The article features a graduate literacy teacher education course that compelled students to think in terms of design and multimodality. In an effort to innovate our own literacy teacher education work, we came together to devise a course that encouraged students to adopt a design lens to their thinking, planning, and assessing of literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teacher Education, Learning Processes, Multiple Literacies
Ellcessor, Elizabeth; Duncan, Sean C. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2011
This paper expands on Gee's (2004) notion of "affinity spaces" by placing them in the context of games, media stars, and their fans and combining cultural studies and new literacies approaches. The Guild, a web series about the misadventures of MMOplayers, written by and starring actor, writer, producer, and gamer Felicia Day, is…
Descriptors: Games, Communities of Practice, Multiple Literacies, Self Concept
Friesen, Norm – Peter Lang New York, 2011
This book examines how common e-learning technologies open up compelling, if limited, experiential spaces for users, similar to the imaginary worlds opened up by works of fiction. However, these experiential worlds are markedly different from the "real" world of physical objects and embodied relations. This book shows these differences to be of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Fiction, Multiple Literacies
Kinloch, Valerie, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2011
Urban Literacies showcases cutting-edge perspectives on urban education and language and literacy by respected junior and senior scholars, researchers, and teacher educators. The authors explore--through various theoretical orientations and diverse methodologies--meanings of urban education in the lives of students and their families across three…
Descriptors: Mentors, Popular Culture, Literacy, Urban Education