Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times
This thought-provoking book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to “rethink” literacy and technology in today’s diverse classrooms.\ Authored by some of the most inspirational researchers in the field, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times provides a research-based blueprint for implementing pedagogical approaches that promote literacy engagement among low-income and minority students. Extensive case studies of classroom practice document...
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An invaluable resource for both practicing and pre-service teachers, this long-awaited book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to “rethink” literacy and technology in today’s diverse classrooms.Authored by some of the most respected researchers in the field today, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity reflects on the idea that great expectations are achievable through educational projects that foster academic growth, with classroom diversity and technology as catalysts for deeper learning, and that a narrow focus ongrade expectations yields superficial results. Arguing today’s learning principles need to incorporate the core values of community learning, critical pedagogy, multilingualism, anti-racist education, high academic standards, and technological fluency, Cummins, Sayers and Brown provide a thought-provoking introduction into these learning principles that will inspire the life-long learning of students.Take a peek inside...Provides examples of projects, backed by research-based theories for their effective adaptation to help both pre-service and practicing teachers become more independent and creative in the ways they use technology. Gives useful suggestions on how to effectively integrate literacy and technology into the classroom. Presents Portraits (Case studies) of collaborative projects promoting literacy learning and often involving technology on such topics as: Cognition, Assessment, Community of Learning, and Tools and Resources in Section II (Chapters 5-9). Contains an appendix of short vignettes of exemplary projects that promote learning of standards-based expectations for academic achievement. Includes a complimentary CD-ROM of additional resources for teachers as well as updated portraits on exemplary projects.
Preface Part I - Changing Times, Changing Schools Chapter 1 - LiteracyChapter 2 - PedagogyChapter 3 - AssessmentChapter 4 - TechnologyPart II - From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Narratives from the Frontier Chapter 5 - Vignettes of classes in global learning networksChapter 6 - Project FRESA: Cultivating Community-Connected LearningChapter 7 - The Oral History Project: From a shrug to “How much time do I have, Mr. Green?”Chapter 8 - The Biographies Project: Opportunities for Math—and Change—in the School LibraryChapter 9 - Nuestro Diccionario (Our Dictionary): Student LexicographyChapter 10 - Closing the Digital Divide Around the WorldPart III - Imagining Educational Futures Chapter 11 - Framing Directions for ChangeChapter 12 - Implementing ChangeAppendix: Vignettes “Media Assassins” at the 99 St. SchoolThe Algebra ProjectCalifornia Students Use Technology to Connect with Tsunami SurvivorsStudent Generated Databases Using Knowledge ForumÒ in the Eastern ArcticEducational Video CenterAuthors in the Classroom: “The Early Authors Program”Virtual Pre-K“Write the Truth”DiaLogos: A Sister Class Exchange between Greece and CanadaDual Language BookmakingReferences
