Handbook of literacy and technology : transformations in a post-typographic world / edited by David Reinking ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reinking, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading--Computer-assisted instruction--Congresses.

Reading.

English language--Composition and exercises--Computer-assisted instruction--Congresses.

English language.

Educational technology--Congresses.

Educational technology.

Literacy--Congresses.

Literacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Other Title:

Literacy and technology

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The major shift going on today in the technologies of reading and writing raises important questions about conventional conceptions of literacy and its role in education, society, and culture. What are the important characteristics of electronic forms of reading and writing distinguishing them from printed forms? To what extent and in what ways is literacy being transformed by new technologies? This central question is addressed in this volume from diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives. The contributing authors focus on a guiding question in one of the following areas, which correspond to th

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Synthesizing Technological Transformations of Literacy in a Post-Typographic World; I Transforming Texts; 1 Hypertext and the Question of Visual Literacy; 2 Transforming Text for At-Risk Readers; 3 Electronic Texts and the Transformation of Beginning Reading; II Transforming Readers and Writers; 4 Opportunities for Critical Literacy and Pedagogy in Student-Authored Hypermedia; 5 Electronic Symbol Making: Young Children's Computer-Related Emerging Concepts About Literacy

6 Early Adolescents' Use of Computer-Mediated Communication in Writing and ReadingIII Transforming Schools and Classrooms; 7 Transforming Schools Through Systemic Change: New Work, New Knowledge, New Technology; 8 Coding the Light: Rethinking Generational Authority in a Rural High School Telecommunications Project; 9 Electronic Literacy Portfolios: Technology Transformations in a First-Grade Classroom; IV Transforming Instruction; 10 Transforming Adult Literacy Instruction Through Computer-Assisted Instruction; 11 Multimedia and Enhanced Learning: Transforming Preservice Education

12 Grounding the Design of New Technologies for Literacy and Learning in Teachers' Instructional Needs13 The Internet in the Classroom: Is It the End of Transmission-Oriented Pedagogy?; V Transforming Society; 14 Flies in the Web of Hypertext; 15 Technology as Enfranchisement and Cultural Development: Crisscrossing Symbol Systems, Paradigm Shifts, and Social-Cultural Considerations; 16 The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacy; 17 Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media

18 Changing Workplaces, Changing Classes: The New Role of Technology in Workplace LiteracyVI Transforming Literacy Research; 19 Researching the Relation Between Technology and Literacy: An Agenda for the 21st Century; 20 Literacy Research Oriented Toward Features of Technology and Classrooms; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Edited papers presented at a conference held in Atlanta in Oct. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-68462-6

1-282-37843-0

9786612378430

1-4106-0379-2

0-585-11513-3

9781410603791

OCLC:

609851476