I recently had the privilege to work with a group of early and elementary teachers from a school near UConn and spent the morning discussing the changes to literacy that are happening as a result of ICTs, and about halfway through the talk, I was interrupted by some teachers that didn’t believe what I was saying. It…
In our research in online reading comprehension, we often highlight the five skills we see being used as students read online: questioning, locating, synthesizing, evaluating, and communicating. Each of these skills has their own issues as students move online to encounter the multitude of texts that make up the online reading experience. In looking at…
Here with the New Literacies Collaborative, we frequently use the term new literacies and at many talks, presentations and conferences new literacies is added into a title or abstract…but what does New Literacies actually mean? For a class on new literacies that I teach here at the University of Connecticut I start the course by…
My task for the Statement of Philosophy and Pedagogy portion of the Comprehensive Exams is included below. I have embedded my response at the bottom. During completion of your coursework, you have encountered many theorists and scholars who have espoused tenets of thinking, teaching and learning. In 8, double-pages or fewer (Compliant with APA guideline;…
As part of my Cognition and Instruction Comprehensive Examinations, the second part was the Article Review and Study Design Task. I included in below the task I was given. My response is embedded below. PART I Attached is a study that appeared in Computers and Education: “Technology uses and student achievement: A longitudinal study” by Jing…