Dr. James Damico recently visited the New Literacies Collaborative to discuss his work on the Critical web reader.
His talk explored ways students and teachers have used a set of Web-based tools, called the Critical Web Reader (cwr.indiana.edu), to investigate complex, multi-faceted topics, such as conspiracy theories about Sept. 11, poverty, religious differences, and climate change.
James Damico is an Associate Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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James Damico visited the Friday Institute and the New Literacies Collaborative today and presented his work with the Critical Web Reader -http://cwr.indiana.edu/ (CRW). The CRW tool has been designed to support inquiry using Internet-based resources given unique challenges that emerge from the various contexts of such activities. These challenges relate to issues such as credibility, careful or close reading, limitations on instructional time, and the strong need to engage students with technology. The CRW responds by focusing on reading that meets teachers where they are while being sensitive to time. Tasks supported by CRW focus reading online and include, traveling to a website, examining a website, and journeying beyond the site. The CRW focuses on the middle process of examining the site. The CRW recognizes approaches that have…
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For this blog posting, I want to share some information about how collaborative video data analysis can be a tool for expanding research possibilities. As technology advances, our way of documenting, analyzing, and conceptualizing learning is expanding in so many ways. There are many new computer programs, technology tools, and web applications that have the potential to increase the way that educators engage in classroom research.
Video-based data analysis, which is currently undergoing a period of rapid development, has the potential to offer new ways of researching classrooms because it encourages collaboration between researchers and classroom teachers. Computer assisted video data analysis software can further the use of video as a research tool; it has the potential to encourage attention to and analysis of both verbal and non-verbal behaviors of research participants (Coiro, 2009) and encourage collaborative participation between teachers and researchers…
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I recently wrapped up two rounds of a research study and a series of articles in collaboration with John Lee that focused on the integration of an educational blog as the primary instructional tool in a high school U.S. history classroom. It was apparent to me that the teachers I worked with in professional development workshops or met at professional conferences often reserved creative and engaging uses of technology for their brightest students. Lower level students would have few opportunities to use technology for anything more than skill acquisition or basic Internet research. This digital divide seemed wrong-headed from both a social justice and pedagogical perspective.
Educational research has demonstrated that the status quo in the classroom generally does not work for low achieving/at risk kids. Rather, they need opportunities to engage with the material in active and meaningful ways. Many at risk students are tactile rather than visual or auditory learners –…
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The effectiveness of a technologically-facilitated classroom-based early reading intervention: The Targeted Reading Intervention
Amendum, S. J., Vernon-Feagans, L., & Ginsberg, M. C. (2011). The effectiveness of a technologically-facilitated classroom-based early reading intervention: The Targeted Reading Intervention. Elementary School Journal, 112, 107-131.
This research brief summarizes a study which evaluated the efficacy of a classroom-teacher-delivered reading intervention for struggling readers called the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), designed principally for kindergarten and first-grade teachers and their struggling students in rural, low-wealth communities. The TRI was delivered to schools and teachers via an innovative Web-conferencing system using laptop computers…
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Elizabeth Moeller {Godwin} replied to John Lee's discussion A Cosmopolitan Life in the group Global Learning, 2012As mentioned in the "Action Steps" part of our session and as described on our session's "Action Steps" session wiki page, we…Continue
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In recent years, technological innovations have enabled new forms for representing information in visual ways. While several fields have benefited from these new visual forms, social studies has been…Continue
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November 3-7, 2010, a team from the New Literacies Collaborative traveled to Beijing, China for a New Literacies Institute at the Beijing Royal School (BRS). The five day workshop was the product of a collaboration between the College of Education at North Carolina State University and BRS. For more see the workshop website at http://nli2010beijing.wikispaces.com/
The New Literacies Collaborative met at theFriday Institutein Raleigh, NC on December 10, 2010, and members of the NLC team that traveled to China discussed their work. This talk is available below.
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