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4 Steps To Standards Integration, Vanessa Greenwood
4 Steps To Standards Integration, Vanessa Greenwood
School of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works
It is too easy for teachers and library media specialists to entangle themselves in the multiple strands of standards: State core curriculum content standards, National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS.S), National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS.T), and the Information Literacy Standards (ALA). To prevent teachers from drowning professionally in this vast sea of accountability, the author presents an exercise that untangles the standards and helps teachers to align their teaching style with immediately accessible instructional technologies. This exercise is a useful anchor for inservice teachers and media specialists to experiment using new media technologies to support existing curriculum …
Extending The Conversation: New Technologies, New Literacies, And English Education, Janet A. Swenson, Carl A. Young, Ewa Mcgrail, Robert A. Rozema, Phyllis Whitin
Extending The Conversation: New Technologies, New Literacies, And English Education, Janet A. Swenson, Carl A. Young, Ewa Mcgrail, Robert A. Rozema, Phyllis Whitin
Middle and Secondary Education Faculty Publications
The authors contend that new technologies have developed new literacies and new ways of thinking that are reshaping our lives. In the rapidly changing world, they argue, these new literacies and their practices must become central to effective English education programs. To frame their argument, they introduce the notion of "technological" pedagogical content knowledge to bridge the perceived binary of technology and English education. Throughout, they analyze how reflection on new technologies and integration of them into coursework for specific purposes is an educational, political, and even a moral imperative.