Global Educators Cohort Program - Teacher Education

TE991: Research on Literacy and Technology

Spring 2009

This seminar explores the issues, research, tools, and scholars central to the research on literacy and technology.

On this wiki page you will find:

• notes, handouts, and additional resources for chapters in the 2008 Handbook of Research on New Literacies. [Jump there]
• notes about our video conferences with guest speakers. [Jump there]
• links to useful resources in the New Literacies field. [Jump there]

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Handbook of Research on New Literacies

Notes, handouts, and additional resources for particular chapters



Chapter 8: Learning, change, and power: Competing frames of technology and literacy (by Mark Warschauer & Page Ware)

Chapter 9: The Web as a source of information for students in K-12 education (by Els Kuiper & Monique Volman)

Chapter 13: Multimedia literacy (by Richard Mayer)
For Paul's notes and class activity, click here.

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Guest speaker notes

Donald Leu (Tuesday 1/20/09): Notes by Michelle Schira-Hagerman  Leu_01-20-2009.doc
Homepage at the UConn Neag School of Education.





Carly Shuler (Tuesday 1/27/09)
Homepage at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.




Julie Coiro (Tuesday 2/2/2009)
Homepage at the University of Rhode Island.





Jill Castek (Tuesday 2/9/2009)
Homepage (old one) at the University of Connecticut





Lisa Zawilinski & Greg McVerry (Tuesday 2/16/2009)
Short bios for Lisa and Greg on the website of the Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents (TICA) project.

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Useful resources and sites of interest

The Teaching Internet Comprehension to Adolescents (TICA) project website at the University of Connecticut. TICA is a collaborative project involving researchers at the University of Connecticut and Clemson University. Visit their website here.