New Literacies and Teacher Learning: Professional Development and the Digital Turn / Edition 1

by Michele Knobel, Judy Kalman

Overview

New Literacies and Teacher Learning examines the complexities of teacher professional development today in relation to new literacies and digital technologies, set within the wider context of strong demands for teachers to be innovative and to improve students' learning outcomes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433129117
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	03/30/2016
Series:	New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies , #74
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michele Knobel (BEd, University College of Southern Queensland; MEd, University of Southern Queensland; MEd.TESOL and PhD, Queensland University of Technology) is a professor at Montclair State University. Her publications include New Literacies (2011, with Colin Lankshear) and A New Literacies Reader (Peter Lang, 2013, edited with Colin Lankshear).
Judy Kalman (BA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; M.S., Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados-IPN; PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor at DIE-CINVESTAV, Mexico City. Publications include Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America (2013, edited with Brian Street) and El Profe 2.0 (2013, with Irán Guerrero and Óscar Hernández).

Table of Contents

Contents: Michele Knobel/Judy Kalman: Teacher Learning, Digital Technologies and New Literacies – Oscar Hernández Razo/Victor Rendón Cazales/Judy Kalman: Accompaniment: A Socio-Cultural Approach for Rethinking Practice and Uses of Digital Technologies with Teachers – Susi Bostock/Kathleen Lisi-Neumann/Melissa Collucci: Doing-It-Ourselves Development: (Re)defining, (Re)designing and (Re)valuing the Role of Teaching, Learning, and Literacies – Heather Lotherington/Stephanie Fisher/Jennifer Jenson/Laura Mae Lindo: Professional Development from the Inside Out: Redesigning Learning through Collaborative Action Research – Ola Erstad: Literacy Spaces, Digital Pathways and Connected Learning: Teachers’ Professional Development in Times of New Mobilities – Reijo Kupiainen/Hanna Leinonen/Marita Mäkinen/Angela Wiseman: A Digital Book Project with Primary Education Teachers in Finland – Inés Dussel: Professional Development and Digital Literacies in Argentinean Classrooms: Rethinking «What Works» in Massive Technology Programs – Teresa Strong-Wilson/Claudia Mitchell/Marcea Ingersoll: Exploring Multidirectional Memory-Work and the Digital as a Phase Space for Teacher Professional Development – Erik Jacobson: Expanding Notions of Professional Development in Adult Basic Education – Carly Biddolph/Jen Scott Curwood: #PD: Examining the Intersection of Twitter and Professional Learning – Christina Cantrill/Kylie Peppler: Connected Learning Professional Development: Production-Centered and Openly Networked Teaching Communities.