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Question: Advantages of reading/writing online vs. reading print and writing by hand?
Lately, I’ve been asked by several teacher colleagues for information that could help them understand the complexities of digital literacies, and by extension, digital literacies instruction. I’ve decided to begin posting my responses to my colleagues on my blog, in case there are others who could benefit from these thoughts. I also welcome input from…
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Infographic: How do Theoretical Frames in Literacies Fit Together?
This week, I’m presenting at a two-day workshop for the Association of Independent School Librarians. The title of the PD session is “At the Center of IT All: Scaffolding Advanced Information Literacies for K-12 Students in School Libraries”. One of the questions that the AISL wanted to explore through this PD session is one that…
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Old-school tech, new school reading: On repurposing transparency film to support multiple text integration online
I’m nearing the end of data collection in a study that (I hope) will provide teachers with much-needed information on methods that support (or don’t support?) 9th grade students’ reading of multiple, multi-modal Internet texts on science-focused topics of inquiry. As I was developing my teaching intervention, I was especially concerned with methods that would…
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Digital literacies in the classroom: A critique of Rhodes and Robnolt, 2009
I’ve just finished reading Rhodes, J A. & Robnolt, V.J. (2009). Digital literacies in the classroom. In L. Christenbury, R. Bomer & P. Smagorinsky (Eds.) Handbook of adolescent literacy research (pp. 153-169). New York: The Guilford Press. The chapter is useful, particularly for its closely juxtaposed definitions of Multiliteracies (The New London Group, 1996); New…
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How are digital tools shaping family literacy?
Last week in my adolescent literacy development seminar, we discussed issues and literature related to family literacies. Toward the end of class, our professor, Doug Hartman, cited a landmark study by Victoria Purcell-Gates ( at UBC in Language and Literacy Education where I completed my M.A.) that focused on three kinds of texts in the…