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Teaching As Dialogue: Toward Culturally Responsive Online Pedagogy, April Lawrence
Teaching As Dialogue: Toward Culturally Responsive Online Pedagogy, April Lawrence
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Despite the preponderance of online learning in K-12 public schools, still little is known about what constitutes good online teaching. The purpose of this interpretivist investigation was to learn about some of the ways in which culturally responsive teaching occurs online. This study focused on the practices of four full-time online high school teachers. Using the methods of grounded theory research, the author analyzed data generated through observations of online courses, interviews with teachers, and teacher-written narratives in order to learn how four instructors practiced culturally responsive online pedagogy in one state-supported online program. Results indicated that the teachers engaged …
Technology As Technocracy: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conscientious Use Of Technology For Authentic Family Engagement, Katherine Barko-Alva, Lisa Porter, Soccorro Herrera
Technology As Technocracy: Pre-Service Teachers’ Conscientious Use Of Technology For Authentic Family Engagement, Katherine Barko-Alva, Lisa Porter, Soccorro Herrera
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Pre-service and in-service teachers nationwide are asking the following questions: Could we have been more prepared? COVID-19 has made public and transparent the digital inequalities of today’s schools, particularly for culturally and linguistically diverse (i.e., CLD) students and their families. How can technology be used in a proactive way regardless of context to identify and document both the technological needs and assets of students and their families beyond the question of who is or is not connected? This chapter encourages educators to shift their current technological pedagogical practices by exploring possible solutions that pull-in family biographies rather than follow prescribed …