21st century literacies

  TL;DR version: By employing a critical literacy perspective to "making" and Connected Learning, teachers and students can engage in activism & cyberactivism for the purposes of ...

William O'Byrne - 2013-05-14 07:49 - 0 comments

• This page is part of Teaching Reading: A Semester of Inquiry

Kayla Martinson, Shelby Williamson, Josh Mortensen This resource approaches the following three questions: Why should students read literature in the 21st century? What qualifies as a ...

Antero Garcia - 2013-05-13 14:48

This is part of an ongoing series of discussions I am having with my good friend, Anna Smith, about digital literacies. ( You can follow the entire thread of our back and forth talks here .) The other day, ...

Kevin Hodgson - 2013-02-06 06:39 - 0 comments

The  #literacies  chat is a weekly chat on Twitter bringing together educators, researchers and thinkers fascinated by contemporary literacies. #literacies chats are held the 1st and 3rd Thursdays ...

anna smith - 2013-02-06 13:46

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Pamela Moran - 2012-06-11 09:09

Since the beginning of the school year I have been using cell phones in my classroom as a way to help connect my students with technology and to use as a worthwhile digital writing tool. Notably, I have ...

Jeremy Hyler - 2012-03-06 08:15 - 0 comments

• This page is part of Using Media to (Re) Claim The Hood: Essential Questions & Powerful English Pedagogy

Digital Media & Interconnection  This is a picture (taken with my iPhone) of a local hip-hop artist videotaping Detroit youth who are presenting their participatory action research project to ...

Danielle Filipiak - 2012-03-13 04:37

Many teachers are wondering whether digital writing can align with the ELA strand of the  Common Core State Standards , now adopted by ...

Christina Cantrill - 2012-11-04 15:33

Youth practice recording, interviewing, writing, rehearsing, editing, and presenting throughout media literacy programs, but what other skills do they practice and master in these programs that will help ...

Joslyn Young - 2011-09-29 17:38

Literacies are reading, writing, composing, creating, producing, changing, adapting, and evolving, but what do we know about how new and traditional literacies are already connected in the lives of ...

Joslyn Young - 2011-11-04 19:06