Educators Online : Preparing Today’s Teachers for Tomorrow’s Digital Literacies

Educators Online : Preparing Today’s Teachers for Tomorrow’s Digital Literacies

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Book

Description

Educators Online: Preparing Today’s Teachers for Tomorrow’s Digital Literacies, fills a significant and glaring need for professional educators—that is, it prepares instructors to become digital- and tech-savvy. However, this book does not only focus on classroom practice and the delivery of instruction, but also on the scholarly and cocurricular benefits of these technologies for the educators.

My book opens with a discussion of what it means to be an educator participating in the Read/Write web. I explore issues of digital epistemologies and ethnographies, and discuss those areas (both personal and professional) that affect how educators present themselves online. Through both anecdotal and scholarly evidence, I suggest methods of bridging the numerous disconnects that occur in the complex relationships between literacies, schooling, learning and teaching. Essentially, my book informs and instructs today’s educators in these tools that are having such marked impact on our shrinking global, networked, educational cultures. These new technologies are not only changing the nature of literacy in contemporary society; they must also affect corresponding changes in the training of our teachers and teacher educators.

ISBN

9781433109317

Publication Date

2013

Publisher

Peter Lang

City

New York

Keywords

teaching, pedagogy, social media, collaborative, web 2.0, digital literacy, digital humanities

Subject(s)

Internet in education, Internet literacy--Study and teaching, Teachers--Training of

Disciplines

Adult and Continuing Education | Curriculum and Instruction | Curriculum and Social Inquiry | Digital Humanities | Educational Methods | Educational Technology | Instructional Media Design | Secondary Education

Department

English

College/School

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

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