Facebook, blogs, texts, computer games, instant messages… The ways in which we make meanings and engage with each other are changing. Are you a student teacher trying to get to grips with these new digital technologies? Would you like to find ways to make use of them in your classroom?

Digital technologies are an everyday part of life for students and Understanding Digital Literacies explores the ways in which they can be used in schools. Carrington and Robinson provide an insight into the research on digital technologies, stressing its relevance for schools, and suggest ways to develop new, more relevant pedagogies, particularly for social learning, literacy and literate practices. With a practical focus, the examples and issues explored in this book will help you to analyse your own practice and to carry out your own small-scale research projects.

Explaining the theoretical issues and demonstrating their practical implementation, this topical book will be an essential resource to new student teachers on undergraduate and PGCE courses, and those returning to postgraduate study.

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Information

Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

2009

ISBN

9781446242193

Edition

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Education Technology

Index

Added to a page number ‘f’ denotes a figure and ‘t’ denotes a table.

access, to technology 20, 49, 68, 77, 122

accuracy, of Wikipedia 71–2

action adventure blogging 90

Active Worlds 7, 96

Adjustments 151

Admins, Flickr 35

adult-childhood

competence/boundaries 67

adulthood 67

affinity spaces 5, 15, 30, 86

apprenticeship, print literacy 67

audience, video productions 20–3

authorship 65–6, 77

autonomous literacy 50

avatar-based game play see

Barnsborough project

Barnsborough project 96–7

background to 95–6

creating and controlling 99–100

digital literacy 105–7

environment 100

initial aim 97

limitation 102–3

risk and appropriateness 102

texts for teaching 100–1

transgressive behaviour 103–5

Bebo 30, 47, 49

Bentley Bros 21–2, 23

‘big idea’, in print and digital stories 151–2, 156–7

BJs story 151–2

blocking, on Flickr 35

bloggers 84–5, 88–9

blogging 6–7

learner competence 32

for teachers and pupils 91

blogosphere 84, 88, 91