Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times

Cummins, Jim, and Brown, Kristin, and Sayers, Dennis

ISBN 10: 020538935X / ISBN 13: 9780205389353

Published by Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA, 2006

About this Item

Audience: General/trade. CD-ROM is included, book is clean and tight, some light shelf wear, spine is not creased, no names or other markings, nearer fine than vg. Very good in very good dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020538935X
• ISBN 13: 9780205389353
• Binding: Soft cover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

An invaluable resource for both practicing and pre-service teachers, this long-awaited book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to “rethink” literacy and technology in today’s diverse classrooms.

 

Authored by some of the most respected researchers in the field today, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity reflects on the idea that great expectations are achievable through educational projects that foster academic growth, with classroom diversity and technology as catalysts for deeper learning, and that a narrow focus ongrade expectations yields superficial results. Arguing today’s learning principles need to incorporate the core values of community learning, critical pedagogy, multilingualism, anti-racist education, high academic standards, and technological fluency, Cummins, Sayers and Brown provide a thought-provoking introduction into these learning principles that will inspire the life-long learning of students. 

 

Take a peek inside...

Provides examples of projects, backed by research-based theories for their effective adaptation to help both pre-service and practicing teachers become more independent and creative in the ways they use technology.

Gives useful suggestions on how to effectively integrate literacy and technology into the classroom.

Presents P ortraits (Case studies) of collaborative projects promoting literacy learning and often involving technology on such topics as: Cognition, Assessment, Community of Learning, and Tools and Resources in Section II (Chapters 5-9).

Contains an appendix of short vignettes of exemplary projects that promote learning of standards-based expectations for academic achievement.

Includes a complimentary CD-ROM of additional resources for teachers as well as updated portraits on exemplary projects.

About the Author

Jim Cummins is a widely-recognized authority on bilingualism, literacy development and technology-assisted learning.  He is co-author of the widely successful series, Scott Foresman ESL (Scott Foresman) and spends time presenting and consulting across the United States and Canada.

 

Kristin Brown has been a leader in promoting global learning networks internationally and currently travels across the country doing professional development workshops with various school districts. 

 

Dennis Sayers has researched two-way bilingual immersion programs, technology and language awareness and has done professional development workshops in California.