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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Literacy, Popular Culture, and Technology
Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Literacy,
Popular Culture, and Technology. We have divided the resources into two groups.
The first focuses on technology and the second on popular culture.
Technology*
What Is After-School Worth? Developing Literacy and Identity Out of School Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This professional development article examines the history and use of after-school programs in order to determine the value of such programs. The question is raised, then answered, regarding these programs' worth, especially as spaces in which we might foster powerful literacy practices among young people.... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS
Extending Literacy Through Participation in New Technologies Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: In this online version of the International Reading Association's Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, authors Umesh Thakkar, Bertram C. Bruce, Maureen Hogan, and Jo Williamson look at a cross-curriculum innovation in which students engage in reading, writing, problem solving, interacting with simulations and databases, and performing various hands-on activities.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Health Science, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First
Content Area Literacy Lessons Go High Tech Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This article addresses literacy and technology as integral tools within content lessons at all levels, beginning with a brief history of content reading instruction as it has developed over the past few decades. This account demonstrates the importance of content reading instruction as a means of providing teachers with tools that can help them help their students learn content material.... Projects: AdLIT
A Constructivist Stretch: Preservice Teachers Meet Preteens in a Technology-Based Literacy Project Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–7 Professional Commentary: This professional article describes a collaborative project that involved preservice teachers and 6th graders (11- to 12-year-old learners) working to develop and implement a technology-based literacy project. Intended to contribute to the professional literature about computer technology, this guided study established specific questions and guidelines for preservice teachers to be able to determine the influence of computers on teaching and learning in the preteen classroom.... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS
Popular Culture
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Popular Culture: Literacy Development Among Urban Youth Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: An educator who substantiates his research with his own classroom experience, Ernest Morrell illustrates how the critical teaching of popular culture can produce powerful academic and social results with urban youth. The author draws from data collected during the eight years that he taught urban teens in the San Francisco Bay area and southern California, and focuses on specific manifestations of popular culture--hip-hop, film, and mass media.... Projects: AdLIT
Working Toward Third Space in Content Area Literacy: An Examination of Everyday Funds of Knowledge and Discourse Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This article is a well-researched, 33-page pdf file where the authors analyze the intersections and disjunctures between everyday (home, community, peer group) and school funds of knowledge and discourse. The authors’ focus frames literacy learning in the school-based, content area literacy practices of middle school-aged youth in a predominantly Latino/urban community of Detroit, Michigan.... Projects: AdLIT
"At-Risk" Adolescents: Redefining Competence Through the Multiliteracies of Intermediality, Visual Arts, and Representation Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this professional development article, author David O'Brien posits a literacy where a variety of socially and culturally appropriate literacies (media and visual arts, amongst others) enables students to construct meaning. And by allowing students to employ a literacy beyond the traditional definition of print literacy where a singular skill or process is applied predominately in school-based settings and tasks, O'Brien concludes that we might help the "at-risk" learner, the struggling reader, to achieve success in literacy.This work on exploring multiliteracies as a way to reposition at-risk adolescents is the result of a 4-year study with high school students and two school-based colleagues at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, Indiana.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First
*Please note that the first resource in this list fits the popular culture category too.
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