Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies

The allure and marketplace power of digital technologies continues to hold sway over the field of education with billions spent annually on technology in the United States alone. Literacy instruction at all levels is influenced by these evolving and ever-changing tools. While this opens the door to innovations in literacy curricula, it also adds a pedagogical responsibility to operate within a well-developed conceptual framework to ensure instruction is complemented or augmented by technology and does not become secondary to it. The Handbook of Research on Integrating Digital Technology With Literacy Pedagogies is a comprehensive research publication that considers the integration of digital technologies in all levels of literacy instruction and prepares the reader for inevitable technological advancements and changes. Covering a wide range of topics such as augmented reality, literacy, and online games, this book is essential for educators, administrators, IT specialists, curriculum developers, instructional designers, teaching professionals, academicians, researchers, education stakeholders, and students.

Pamela Sullivan is an Assistant Professor in the Early, Elementary, and Reading department at James Madison University. She has co-authored one book, The Essential Guide to Selecting and Using a Core Reading Program and has research interests in early literacy, family literacy, and technology. She is the editor for Reading in Virginia, the state reading association journal. She earned her Ph.D. in Reading from the University of Virginia and her Ed.S. in school psychology from the University of South Florida. She has been a teacher for students with varying exceptionalities, a school psychologist, and a reading intervention coordinator in the United States and in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands.