Best Practices in Teaching Digital Literacies

Contributed by researchers from the US, the 15 essays in this volume describe best practices in teaching digital literacies. They discuss how disruptive innovations related to digital literacy can improve traditional approaches to teacher education; the use of the Technology Integration Planning Cycle to prepare pre-service teachers for multimodal instruction; how making ebooks can facilitate digital literacy skills among teacher candidates; preparing pre-service teachers to teach digital literacies in under-resourced elementary schools; the use of metacognition and critical-thinking to support literacy development in a digital age; using backchanneling technologies to facilitate dialogic discussions about literature; and how two pre-service teachers evaluated digital information sources about climate change, to illustrate the challenges and possibilities of an instructional approach aimed at cultivating digital literacies among pre-service teachers. Others address the design of a digital internship to meet the learning goals of students and teacher candidates; pre-service teachers' use of multimodal text sets and technology in teaching reading; a book review podcast project in an adolescent and young adult literature course in a teacher education program; the use of the software platform TechScaffold in teacher education for decision-making processes to support technology integration; promoting English language arts content area learning through collaboratively engaged social media practice; the use of tactile picture book making and multimodal composition for equity in English language arts; a visual framework, the beginning, acting, telling model, for teaching digital literacy through inquiry and information seeking; and empowering students as critical readers and writers and online spaces. -- Annotation ©2018 * (protoview.com) *