Digital Literacies

Social Learning and Classroom Practices

Victoria Carrington, Muriel Robinson, Victoria Carrington, Muriel Robinson

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781847870384
  9781847870377
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446242193
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

Facebook, blogs, texts, computer games, instant messages… The ways in which we make meanings and engage with each other are changing. Are you a student teacher trying to get to grips with these new digital technologies? Would you like to find ways to make use of them in your classroom?

Digital technologies are an everyday part of life for students and Understanding Digital Literacies explores the ways in which they can be used in schools. Carrington and Robinson provide an insight into the research on digital technologies, stressing its relevance for schools, and suggest ways to develop new, more relevant pedagogies, particularly for social learning, literacy and literate practices. With a practical focus, the examples and issues explored in this book will help you to analyse your own practice and to carry out your own small-scale research projects.

Explaining the theoretical issues and demonstrating their practical implementation, this topical book will be an essential resource to new student teachers on undergraduate and PGCE courses, and those returning to postgraduate study.

Index

Added to a page number ‘f’ denotes a figure and ‘t’ denotes a table.

access, to technology 20, 49, 68, 77, 122

accuracy, of Wikipedia 71–2

action adventure blogging 90

Active Worlds 7, 96

Adjustments 151

Admins, Flickr 35

adult-childhood

competence/boundaries 67

adulthood 67

affinity spaces 5, 15, 30, 86

apprenticeship, print literacy 67

audience, video productions 20–3

authorship 65–6, 77

autonomous literacy 50

avatar-based game play see

Barnsborough project

Barnsborough project 96–7

background to 95–6

creating and controlling 99–100

digital literacy 105–7

environment 100

initial aim 97

limitation 102–3

risk and appropriateness 102

texts for teaching 100–1

transgressive behaviour 103–5

Bebo 30, 47, 49

Bentley Bros 21–2, 23

‘big idea’, in print and digital stories 151–2, 156–7

BJs story 151–2

blocking, on Flickr 35

bloggers 84–5, 88–9

blogging 6–7

learner competence 32

for teachers and pupils 91

blogosphere 84, 88, 91

blogrolls 86

blogs

as an example of literacy as social practice 83

as citizenship journalism 81

defined 84

format of 85–8

as a learning tool 88–91

social context 82–3

trusting and verifying 81–2

Byron Review: Children and the New Technology (DCSF) 46, 57

camcorder study 16–24

capitalism 66

The Chalks 53–6

changing literacies 6–7

chat function 106

‘chavs’ video 23

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre 57

childhood 67–8

children

dialectical relationship between communities and 5

as producers of online digital texts 43–58

technological change 66–8

see also pupils

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Series published in association with UKLA
• Introduction: contentious technologies
• PART A DIGITAL TEXTS IN AND OUT OF SCHOOL
• PART B CHANGING LITERACIES
• PART C CHANGING LITERACIES, CHANGING PEDAGOGIES
• PART D INTERCONNECTIVITY
• Index