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Book SynopsisThe almost universal reliance upon digital tools for social, academic, and career development will only become more pronounced in the years to come. Teacher education programs remain ill-equipped to adequately prepare educators with the pedagogies needed to foster digital literacies. What is needed is a set of best practices towards teaching digital literacies so that teachers can better meet the emerging needs of their students in today’s classrooms.
Where should teachers begin? What are the essentials of digital literacies within K-12 contexts? And how might we reimagine teacher education programs to optimally prepare teachers for working with technologically connected youth, whose literacies are more complex, interconnected, and diverse than ever?
This volume provides a practical framework for teacher education programs to develop K-12 students’ digital literacies. It offers a set of best practices in teaching digital literacies that promote access to research-based pedagogies for immediate implementation in classrooms.
Trade ReviewContributed by researchers from the US, the 15 essays in this volume describe best practices in teaching digital literacies. They discuss how disruptive innovations related to digital literacy can improve traditional approaches to teacher education; the use of the Technology Integration Planning Cycle to prepare pre-service teachers for multimodal instruction; how making ebooks can facilitate digital literacy skills among teacher candidates; preparing pre-service teachers to teach digital literacies in under-resourced elementary schools; the use of metacognition and critical-thinking to support literacy development in a digital age; using backchanneling technologies to facilitate dialogic discussions about literature; and how two pre-service teachers evaluated digital information sources about climate change, to illustrate the challenges and possibilities of an instructional approach aimed at cultivating digital literacies among pre-service teachers. Others address the design of a digital internship to meet the learning goals of students and teacher candidates; pre-service teachers' use of multimodal text sets and technology in teaching reading; a book review podcast project in an adolescent and young adult literature course in a teacher education program; the use of the software platform TechScaffold in teacher education for decision-making processes to support technology integration; promoting English language arts content area learning through collaboratively engaged social media practice; the use of tactile picture book making and multimodal composition for equity in English language arts; a visual framework, the beginning, acting, telling model, for teaching digital literacy through inquiry and information seeking; and empowering students as critical readers and writers and online spaces. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *
Table of ContentsDisruptive Innovations in Teacher Education;
Evan Ortlieb, Annalisa Susca, Jean Votypka, and Earl H. Cheek Jr.Using the Technology Integration Planning Cycle to Prepare Pre-Service Teachers for Multimodal Instruction;
Beth Beschorner, Jamie Colwell, Amy Carter Hutchison, and Lindsay Woodward Designing Ebooks: Enhancing Prospective Teachers' Digital Literacy Skills;
Chinwe H. Ikpeze Only One iPad: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers to Teach Digital Literacies in Under-Resourced Elementary Schools;
Chrystine Cooper Mitchell and Jennifer Dandridge Turner Locating Meaning in a Digital Age;
Heather Casey Using Backchanneling Technology to Facilitate Dialogic Discussions about Literature;
James S. Chisholm Digital Literacies and Climate Change: Exploring Reliability and Truth(s) with Pre-Service Teachers;
James Damico, Alexandra Panos, and Michelle Myers Digital Internships: Enriching Teaching and Learning with Primary Resources;
Jenny M. Martin Pre-Service Teachers' Multimodal Text Sets and Use of Technology in Teaching Reading: Lessons Learned from a Design-Based Study;
Lisa M. O’Brien, Alejandra Salinas, Kelly C. Reinhart, and Jeanne R. Paratore Taking the Book Review on Air: Bringing Young Adult Literature to Life in Teacher Education;
Molly Buckley-Marudas Using TechScaffold to Foster Teachers' Decision-Making Processes to Support Technology Integration;
Richard Beach, John Michael Scott, and Greg Klotz Language Today: Promoting ELA Content Area Learning through Collaboratively Engaged Social Media Practice;
Carl A. Young, Nicolette Filson, and Rachael Debnam-O’Dea Tactile Picture Book Making and Multimodal Composition: Students Design for Equity in English Language Arts;
Bridget Dalton and Kirsten Musetti The Beginning, Acting, Telling (BAT) Model: A Visual Framework for Teaching Digital Literacy through Inquiry and Information Seeking;
Valerie Nesset and Mary McVee Empowering Students as Critical Readers and Writers in Online Spaces;
Ian O’Byrne
