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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Digital Literacies"”.
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Choices Made By Elementary Teachers When Implementing Digital Literacies
The purpose of this study was to determine what types of choices teachers make when choosing technology to implement in their ELA instruction. A funneling approach was used to collect the data over a period of six weeks. Sixteen teachers were anonymously surveyed followed by four teacher …
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Digital literacies in high schools within uMhlathuze Local Municipalities
The concept of digital competence is central to this study and can be broadly defined as skills, knowledge, creativity, and attitudes that everybody needs to use digital media for learning and functioning in the knowledge society. It is undeniable that we live in an information age in which …
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Digital Literacies for International Teacher Education: a Ghanaian perspective
… quality education across the continent. Digital technologies that support new modes of teacher education can improve access and quality in developing regions (Moon and Villet, 2017a, b; Moon, 2007; Power, 2013), however little is known about how teachers develop digital literacies to …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… global material consequences of the rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are …
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Developing digital literacies: Engaging technical communication at an urban community technology center
… texts and practices as they develop their digital literacies at an urban community technology center (CTC) in the Southeastern United States. By taking an ethnographic and community-based approach to data collection and utilizing grounded theory for analysis, I found that learners engage in …
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Hip-hop is my passport! Using hip-hop and digital literacies to understand global citizenship education
… of hip-hop, global citizenship education and digital literacies in an effort to increase our understanding of how urban youth from two very different urban areas, (Detroit, Michigan, United States and Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) make sense of and construct identities as global …
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Navigating new terrain: Designing blended learning to develop digital literacies for students in a tertiary institution
… Māori and non-Māori students and enhance digital information literacy. Within this study, digital information literacy is identified as being intertwined with content learning and, as such, digital information literacy has become a vital component of students' tertiary learning. I found …
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Confidence, the Image of the Writer, and Digital Literacies: Exploring Writing Self-Efficacy in the College Classroom
… a term used for twenty-first century forms of digital composition that differ from traditional print literacy, is established and theoretical suggestions made regarding how teachers can incorporate new literacies into writing instruction to promote positive writing self-efficacy. The final …
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The Role of Language Ideologies in Curriculum Design: Possibilities in Computational and Digital Literacies Integration in Teacher Education
… forms of engaging with literacy are explored, digital practices and tools are being employed as useful supports for students and their language practices (García et al., 2017). As emerging technologies are further introduced in educational spaces, education programs have a role in shaping how …
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Capturing the context of digital literacy: a case study of Illinois public libraries in underserved communities
… the role of the public library in fostering digital literacies in underserved Illinois communities. Over the course of two years I collected data on the library as an institution, and as a context, by investigating people, policies, activities and infrastructure related to how individuals …
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Everybody's got a story: examining the building of empathy and understanding for the bully, the bullied, and the bystander through digital storytelling
Digital storytelling as a pedagogical practice has been extensively explored as a means of increasing engagement, developing 21st century skills such as creativity, critical thinking, collaboration and communication, and refining digital literacies in students. However, there is a lack of data on …
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How do students and staff at the University of Cape Town understand equitable access to the curriculum for students with VIs?
… such as inaccessible content. Eight elements of digital literacies were used to explore access to opportuni5es to acquire digital literacies and the UNCRPD to ensure alignment with the right to educa5on. A Q methodology study was conducted which is a hybrid of both quan5ta5ve and qualita5ve …
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Reconstructing social futures: digital voices in first-year writing
… the benefits of bringing students' out-of-school digital literacies into the first-year composition (FYC) classroom, and investigates whether or not this can provide students access to critically analyze their actions on these platforms. I taught a self-designed FYC course focusing on critically …
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First-year higher education students’ acquisition of digital content creation literacies in discipline-specific settings
Digital knowledge production involves the processing and presentation of digital information and content through the implementation of digital literacy practices in technical, cognitive and social-emotional dimensions. As such, this thesis addresses the question: How and why do first-year higher …
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Mobile & Wired: Tweens In An Interactive Mobile World
… their everyday lives, exploring the skills and digital literacies that are cultivated during these interactions. The study also considered the interplay between these experiences and concepts and the impact this has on our understanding of the tweens’ perception and use of time, place, and …
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Digital Rhetoric of the Invisible: Bisexual Literacy Practices on TikTok, 2020–2021
<p>This dissertation uses auto- and digital-ethnographic methods to analyze the literacy practices of bisexual TikTok users primarily during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, during which time TikTok exploded in popularity among U.S. social media users, especially among …
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E-learning, language education and the role of writing : a case study
… there is a mix of, on the one hand, low digitally skilled and reluctant teacher-adopters and, on the other, highly enthusiastic an~ digitally motivated ones, There is also an indication that access to simple infrastructure, with a relatively small investment, could produce good results in …
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Beyond the Tall, Tall Trees: Exploring Land and Digital Literacy in Rural Appalachia
… to better understand the way land impacts rural digital literacy sponsorship. With the help of 13 participants, I studied the ways land impacted their access to digital infrastructures and internet access and presented the following questions: how does land impeded access and support access to …
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“It’s like having a library, and you don’t get to go”: educators negotiating boundaries when working with new literacies
… changes. Today, this is the case with the new literacies. Although students increasingly turn to technology to communicate, school practices still largely ignore this cultural phenomenon. This qualitative study explores the roots of this resistance by examining how teachers negotiate the use of …
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Facilitating Comprehension and Motivation by Engaging Adolescents as iPad Readers
… years has seemingly everyone embracing the new digital literacies without any real knowledge of the skills, strategies, and dispositions required to comprehend digital text. Given the newness of this technology, it's hardly surprising that little empirical research has been conducted to examine …
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