Here is some copy and paste from work I just did up from the work that April and I have done. Love some thoughts comments etc.
Research on blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools are typically situated within the concept of what some refer to as new media literacies (Gee, 1996; Lankshear & Knobel, 2007). [...]
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New Media Literacies applied to Blogging
Posted in Literature, thoughts on the matter on April 25, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Operationalization of reform-based science teaching: Another take
Posted in Literature, thoughts on the matter on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We all have been working with Mark Windschitl’s dilemmas and they have informed our work to the core. April and I have been talking about some of his other work presented at a conference that also seems powerful (as the dilemmas?). The four themes are:
1. Selecting “Big Ideas” in Science: This is the degree to which participants [...]
professional blogging
Posted in Literature, ways to look at the data on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Efimova, L. & Fiedler, S. (2004). Learning webs: Learning in weblog networks. In P. Kommers, P. Issias, & M.B. Nunes (Eds.), Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2004 (pp. 490-494). Lisbon, Portugal: IADIS Press.
The authors make the argument that professional blogging projects offer “an emergent enviornment for the creation of loosely [...]
third space in funds of knowledge and discourse
Posted in Literature on June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Moje, E. B., Ciechanowski, K. M., Kramer, K., Ellis, L., Carrillo, R. & Collazo, T.
(2004). Working toward third space in content area literacy: An examination of everyday funds of knowledge and discourse. Reading Research Quarterly, 39(1), p. 38-70.
This study documents the different funds of knowledge and Discourse that students bear, particularly the out-of-school funds that [...]
“social and spatial numeracy practices”
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Ares, N, Evans, D & Schademan, A. (in process). Mathematics and numeracy as social and spatial practice.
In this paper, the authors focus on the resources marginalized students bring with them that help them connect to
“powerful mathematical learning” (p.2).
These mathematical knowledge-rich resources, [...]
professional identity development of teachers
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Alsup, J. (2006). What does it mean to be a secondary school teacher? Teacher identity discourses : Negotiating personal and professional spaces. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
“In our rush to reform education, we have forgotten a simple truth: reform will never be achieved by renewing appropriations, restructuring schools, rewriting curricula, and revising texts if we [...]
Sfard, A. & Prusak, A. (2005). Telling identities: In search of an analytic tool for investigating learning as a culturall shaped activity. Educational Reseracher (34)4, 14-22.
Posted in Literature on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Identities ARE stories – the focus is on human beings in action and on the mechanisms underlying human action. Identity-making as a communicational practice NOT as an extra-discursive entity that “represents” or “describes”. Identity is always changing and stories provide ’snapshots’ into identity during different periods of time. Identities are collections of stories about persons [...]
a blogging article
Posted in Literature, methods, thoughts on the matter on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Davies, J. & Merchant, G. (2006) Looking from the inside out: Academic blogging as new literacy in A New Literacies Sampler, New York: Peter Lang.
Check out the summary I wrote on the other group’s reseach blog. I found this chapter to be very interesting for a number of reasons:
Strong literature support for blogging as [...]
Framing Constructivism via Negotiation of Dilemmas
Posted in Literature on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Windschitl, Mark (2002) Framing Constructivism in practice as the negotiation of dilemmas: An analysis of the conceptiual, pedagogical, cultural and political challenges facing teachers. Review of Education Research, 72 (2), 131-175.
Constructivism as a basis for teaching is central to the dilemmas that Windschitl outlines in this rich and meaty paper. The four dilemmas are conceptual, [...]
Gee, J. (2003) Learning and identity: What does it mean to be a half-elf?
Posted in Literature on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gee, J. (2003) Learning and identity: What does it mean to be a half-elf? What video games have to teach us about language and literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
So sorry! I thought I posted this with the first one!
Problem: Creative learning in semiotic domains requires identity work, that is, people are required to try [...]
