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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"New Literacies"”.
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A Secondary English Teacher's Use of New Literacies with Voice and Struggling Writers
… instruction with adolescents. Increasingly new literacies and digital tools are being used in the high school English classroom but with relatively little known about how these tools can teach voice during writing instruction. This qualitative single-case study examined how a public school, …
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The effect of new literacies and technology on student engagement and transforming the literacy block
… track, and measure the effect of technology and new literacies on student engagement and the language arts block. Data was kept over a four-week period and tracked through student interviews, informal observations, and student work samples. Throughout the study, students showed growth in their …
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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
… these 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 …
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Integrating the Internet, Other Information Communication Technologies, and the New Literacies of Online Research and Comprehension into Literacy Instruction
… integrated the Internet, other ICTs, and the new literacies of online research and comprehension into literacy instruction. The research questions focused on participants’ perceptions about the role, benefits, and obstacles of integration as well as their planning, preparation, and delivery of …
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New work practices, new literacies and new identities : a shift towards a "new work culture" in a soft drinks factory in Maputo
… focuses on literacy at work in the light of the 'new work culture' and it was strongly influenced by the works of Prinsloo & Scholtz (2000) on one hand, and Hull et al (1996) on the other, whose meta-categories of literate functions I use recurrently along my report. The study was conducted in an …
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A Deweyan Perspective on Knowledge Producing Schools: Re-creative technologies for communities of inquirers
… are embedded. KPS schools attempts, through New Literacies, to bring out-of-school practices into schools, in an effort to make students' schooling experiences overall and those incorporating technology more relevant. The position of this dissertation supports KPS goals while rejecting the …
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Impact of technology implementation in a fourth grade classroom: Teacher and student perspectives
… in a fourth grade classroom and how lowercase new literacies and uppercase New Literacies take shape. The researcher acted as an active participant by providing support to the teacher and students with Internet applications and technology devices. Interviews were conducted with students and …
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Post-Literacy: Designing Writing Curricula around Emerging Literate Activities
… on the integration of digital and multimodal literacies in first-year writing curricula. This dissertation situates itself among other scholarship in new literacies, such as the work of Gee, Selfe and Hawisher. Particularly focusing on digital and multimodal literacies, I utilize Actor-Network …
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A Mixed Methods Case Study Exploring the Outcomes of Implementing a Digital Learning Management System In A Fourth Grade Language Arts Classroom
… them to become literate across a wide range of literacies. Not only is it critical that classroom teachers instruct students in the effective use of technology and the new literacies, but it is also important that teachers understand the impact that the technology revolution has had on …
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Building bridges to primary education in Mauritius? emergent literacy experiences in a foreign language context : a case study of preschool children
… second/foreign language literacy instruction and new literacies was reviewed in order to find some "anchor points" (Hamilton, 2006) in the literature. These "anchor points" guided this exploratory study on emergent/early literacy experiences in a multilingual context. After a pilot study, I …
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Gaming as a Literacy Practice
… sheds light on the merits of gaming and other new literacies by examining the literacy development of a select group of adult males. This research was centered on vernacular technological literacy practices, the evolution of gaming practices, gaming intersections, and supporting school-based …
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Perspectives from University Graduates facing A.I and Automation in Ireland: How do Irish Higher Education’s graduates from Maynooth University perceive AI is going to impact them?
… and education system, based on the pursue of new literacies updated to the XXI century.
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Increasing multimedia literacy in composition for multilingual writers: a case study of art analysis
… in order to explore ways to foster multimodal literacies in English Language Learners (ELL's). "Digital composing environments force writers, readers, and texts to change .... Today, more than ever before, attention is being given to the role of the arts, multi-modality, and new literacies as …
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Student Experiences, Attitudes, and Perceptions Toward Online Collaborative Tools: A Case Study
… tools, based on the principles of the New Literacies Studies (Gee, 2010), to construct and share meaning. Data collection included semi-structured interviews, participant observation and student artifacts. The data from these sources were analyzed using the constant comparative method …
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Confidence, the Image of the Writer, and Digital Literacies: Exploring Writing Self-Efficacy in the College Classroom
… the relationship between self-efficacy and new literacy (Lankshear and Knobel), 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 …
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Quiet on the Set!: Writing Socially in an Elementary After-School Video Club
… to literacy that recognizes videomaking as a new literacies practice. As a literacy practice, videomaking incorporates multiple authors, multiple communicative modes (visual, spatial, aural, gestural, and linguistic), and involves complex and dynamic social interactions between both readers …
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A "Responsibility to Speak Out": Perspectives on Writing from Black African-Born Male Youth with Limited or Disrupted Formal Education
… writing activity genre research (Russell, 2009), New Literacies Studies (Gee, 2000; New London Group, 1996), and postcolonial theory (Said, 1978; Spivak, 1998), the study illuminates participants' perspectives on writing and makes suggestions for teaching adolescent youth, especially immigrant …
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Multilingualism and sociocultural factors prevalent in rural language classrooms
… in rural English language classrooms. The New Literacies Studies theory was the theoretical underpinnings of this study and an interpretative phenomenological paradigm was also used. Qualitative research methodology informed the secondary data analysis that was part of this study. Secondary …
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