Academic knowledge construction and multimodal curriculum development
By: Douglas J. Loveless, James Madison University, USA, Bryant Griffith, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA, Margaret E. Berci, College of Staten Island/CUNY, USA, Evan Ortlieb, Monash University, Australia, Pamela Sullivan, James Madison University, USA, [editors]
Series: Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design (AETID) Book Series
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Hershey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781466647978; 9781466647985; 9781466647992
Subjects: Higher Education; Effect of technological innovations on; Computer-assisted instruction; Educational technology; Computer network resources; Internet in education
Description: "This book presents practical conversations with philosophical and theoretical concerns regarding the use of digital technologies in the educational process, challenging the assumption that information accessibility is synonymous with learning"--
Notes: "Premier Reference Source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-448) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cyborgs or cyperpunks?: implications of schooling with digital technologies / Douglas J. Loveless; title: Digital literacy and the emergence of technology based curriculum theories / Melissa N. Mallon & Donald L. Gilstrap; title: Speed bump vs. road kill on the fiber-optic highway: teacher self-perception in the information age / Margaret E. Bérci; title: Teaching and learning fused through digital technologies: activating the power of the crowd in a university classroom setting / Xiaohong Yang; title: Interweaving the digital and physical worlds in collaborative project-based learning experiences / Michelle E. Jordan; title: Supporting computational expression: how novices use programming primitives in achieving a computational goal / David Weintrop and Uri Wilensky; title: Multimodality in pre-service teaching; title: Emergent digital literacy and mobile technology: preparing technologically literate preservice teachers through a multisensory approach / Helen Mele Robinson; title: Identifying the applicable nature of social media as tools for advancing preservice teachers epistemologies / Stephanie Grote-Garcia; title: Multimodality in the preparation of teachers of the social studies / Margaret E. Bérci; title: Building knowledge: implementing pbl and using mobile apps as an approach to learning / Samuel B. Fee; title: Philosophical guidelines for the social studies: enhancing intelligence with digital tools and artifacts / Daniel W. Stuckart; title: Pre-service teachers knowledge construction with technology / George Zhou & Judy Xu,; title: A great leap forward? ways technology can promote or interfere with assessments of student learning / Ellery Samuels; title: Digital literacies in reading education; title: Fostering emergent literacy skills with technology / Pamela Sullivan & Marianne Baker; title: Teaching literacy through technology in the middle school: a case study / Green; title: The use of digital story expressions with adolescents to promote content area literacy / James Gentry and Laurie Mcadams; title: Study skills in the digital age / Valerie J. Robnolt & Joan A. Rhodes; title: Blogging and digital storytelling to create content area text sets / Pamela Sullivan and Natalie Gainer; title: Preparing intermediate and secondary teachers of reading today: apprenticeship models with emerging tools / Katie Dredger; title: Digital media and educational research; title: A historical analysis of digital literacies / Nicholas Ng-a-Fook; title: A second life in qualitative research: creating transformative experiences / Kakali Bhattacharya; title: Digital icarus negotiating the (dis)advantages of video in research settings in the digital era / Dino Sossi; title: Understanding students perspectives as learners through photovoice / Theresa Harris & Miemsie Steyn; title: Of embodiment and ether: masculinities and negotiating an understanding of complex communities / Jim Burns; title: Teaching and learning in a polymodal age of digital information / Douglas J. Loveless and Bryant Griffith.