What I really appreciate about the four resource model is that it does not discard the knowledge that the teachers have already acquired. What Honan (2004) did in her project…
The article Technological Literacy by Carmen Luke (1997) gives a historical overview of technology, but having in mind that it was written more than 10 years ago, the information is…
The article Reading on the internet: the link between literacy and technology by Elizabeth Schmar-Dobler published in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 47(1) – available on Reading Online –…
In the article Popular culture, textual practice and identity: literacy and the new technologies in the middle years of schooling by C. Beavis (2000), the author states that with the…
The article Talking about visual texts with students by J. Callow (2003) claims that visual literacy is part of the new literacies and in describing it, a type of metalanguage…
The article Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities by L.D. Roberts, L.M. Smith and C.M. Pollock, published in “Communicating in Synchronous Text-Based Virtual Communities” (Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Technologies…
Activity on p. 92 from Pragmatics and Discouse by Joan Cutting. a) Direct directive speech acts: – spoken by others Context: ‘teacher enters the classroom’ – one student…
In “Defining new literacies in curricular practice” by Ladislaus M. Semali (Reading online, vol. 5, no. 4), the author debates the importance of having a definition of “new literacies” in…
The article Facilitating Asynchronous Discussion (Bedard-Voorthees, A. “ Facilitating Asynchronous Discussion,” Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, vol. 2 (2005): 912-917) presents techniques of how online instructors can facilitate meaningful asynchronous discussions….
The authors of the article Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Interactions by T. Kung-Ming and S. Khoon-Seng did not consider television as a tool of asynchronous interaction. The article is based on…