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Handbook of literacy and technology : transformations in a post-typographic world
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Mahwah, N.J : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998
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9780805826425
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Edited papers presented at a conference held in Atlanta in Oct. 1996
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The major shift going on today in the technologies of reading and writing raises important questions about conventional conceptions of literacy and its role in education, society, and culture. What are the important characteristics of electronic forms of reading and writing distinguishing them from printed forms? To what extent and in what ways is literacy being transformed by new technologies? This central question is addressed in this volume from diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives. The contributing authors focus on a guiding question in one of the following areas, which correspond to the major sections of the book:

*Transforming Texts. What are the new differences between printed and electronic texts, and what are the implications of new textual forms for defining literacy, especially in regard to teaching and learning in schools?
*Transforming Readers and Writers. How do electronic reading and writing change conceptualizations of literacy development from childhood through adulthood?
*Transforming Classrooms and Schools. What are the effects of introducing new reading and writing technologies into schools and classrooms?
*Transforming Instruction. How can instruction be adapted in response to the changing literacy landscape, and how can teachers and students exploit forms of reading and writing to enhance teaching and learning?
*Transforming Society. What are the broad societal implications of the increasing prevalence of electronic forms of reading and writing?
*Transforming Literacy Research. What are the questions that must be addressed as digital reading and writing become more common, and what approaches to research will be most useful in addressing those questions?

This volume is the result of an interactive process. The contributors met as a group to discuss drafts of their chapters at a one-day meeting convened and sponsored by the National Reading Research Center, and had read each others' chapters prior to this gathering. That meeting was followed by a two-day conference attended by approximately 180 researchers, educators, and policymakers who responded to an open invitation to present papers and to attend sessions focusing on the six major themes of the book. Contributors then revised their chapters based on interactions with fellow contributors, conference participants, and volume editors. Thus, this work is more than just a compilation of the individual authors' views. Rather, it represents a synthesis of a broad range of current thinking about how literacy is being and may be transformed by technology.


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The growing cultural salience of electronic telecommunications, computers, hypertext, hypermedia, and the World Wide Web has energized efforts to critically examine and reconceptualize the nature of literacy and literacy instruction (see, for example, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy through the Communicative and Visual Arts, CH, Feb'98). This well-organized, carefully edited volume provides another valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and curriculum specialists seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative, scholarly introduction to the discourse on the interrelationships between literacy, technology, education, and sociocultural change. Reinking (Univ. of Georgia) divides the text into six sections that focus on the theme of technology-mediated transformations: transformations of texts and textbooks; of readers and writers; literacy research; society; schools and classrooms; learning and instruction. Contributors describe instructional uses of digital texts, electronic readers, hypertext and multimedia, noting how these emerging modes of representation generate new relationships between readers, writers, and text, which, in turn, disrupt traditional hierarchies and power relations. Individual chapters are well written and provide condensed, informative overviews of competing theoretical perspectives, key conceptual issues, innovative curriculum projects, and empirical research findings. Highly recommended for academic and general collections; all levels. J. A. Gamradt; University of New Mexico


Table of Contents

Introduction Synthesizing Technological Transformations of Literacy in a Post-Typographic Worldp. xi
Referencesp. xxviii
I Transforming Textsp. 1
1 Hypertext and the Question of Visual Literacyp. 3
Referencesp. 12
2 Transforming Text for At-Risk Readersp. 15
Referencesp. 40
3 Electronic Texts and the Transformation of Beginning Readingp. 45
Referencesp. 57
II Transforming Readers And Writersp. 61
4 Opportunities for Critical Literacy and Pedagogy in Student-Authored Hypermediap. 63
Referencesp. 78
5 Electronic Symbol Making: Young Children's Computer-Related Emerging Concepts About Literacyp. 79
Referencesp. 89
6 Early Adolescents' Use of Computer-Mediated Communication in Writing and Readingp. 93
Referencesp. 109
III Transforming Schools And Classroomsp. 113
7 Transforming Schools Through Systemic Change: New Work, New Knowledge, New Technologyp. 115
Referencesp. 126
8 Coding the Light: Rethinking Generational Authority in a Rural High School Telecommunications Projectp. 129
Acknowledgmentsp. 143
Referencesp. 143
9 Electronic Literacy Portfolios: Technology Transformations in a First-Grade Classroomp. 145
Referencesp. 162
IV Transforming Instructionp. 165
10 Transforming Adult Literacy Instruction Through Computer-Assisted Instructionp. 167
Referencesp. 182
11 Multimedia and Enhanced Learning: Transforming Preservice Educationp. 185
Referencesp. 201
12 Grounding the Design of New Technologies for Literacy and Learning in Teachers' Instructional Needsp. 203
Referencesp. 220
Acknowledgmentsp. 220
13 The Internet in the Classroom: Is It the End of Transmission-Oriented Pedagogy?p. 221
Referencesp. 230
V TRANSFORMING SOCIETYp. 233
14 Flies in the Web of Hypertextp. 235
Referencesp. 248
Appendixp. 249
15 Technology as Enfranchisement and Cultural Development: Crisscrossing Symbol Systems, Paradigm Shifts, and Social-Cultural Considerationsp. 253
Referencesp. 268
16 The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacyp. 269
Referencesp. 280
17 Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Mediap. 283
Referencesp. 299
18 Changing Workplaces, Changing Classes: The New Role of Technology in Workplace Literacyp. 303
Referencesp. 319
VI Transforming Literacy Researchp. 321
19 Researching the Relation Between Technology and Literacy: An Agenda for the 21st Centuryp. 323
Referencesp. 339
20 Literacy Research Oriented Toward Features of Technology and Classroomsp. 343
Referencesp. 357
Author Indexp. 361
Subject Indexp. 369
About the Authorsp. 375