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Crossing the digital divide : race, writing, and technology in the classroom
- Title
- Crossing the digital divide : race, writing, and technology in the classroom / Barbara Monroe ; foreword by Victor Villanueva.
- Author
- Monroe, Barbara Jean, 1948-
- Publication
- New York : Teachers College Press, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PE1405.U6 M66 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Villanueva, Victor
- Description
- xiv, 154 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- As communities on "the other side" of the digital divide become immersed in electronic media, how can we evaluate their experiences to transform the teaching of writing and improve student learning? This important book offers a balanced view of instructional technology and critical multiculturalism as experienced in today's public schools.
- Series Statement
- Language and literacy series
- Uniform Title
- Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
- Subject
- English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching > United States
- English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching > Data processing
- English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > Data processing
- English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching > United States
- English language > Rhetoric > Computer-assisted instruction
- Report writing > Study and teaching > Data processing
- Report writing > Computer-assisted instruction
- Educational technology > United States
- African Americans > Education
- Word processing in education
- Educational technology
- English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching
- English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching
- Englischunterricht
- Aufsatz
- Computerunterstützter Unterricht
- United States
- USA
- Schwarze
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Reconsidering the terms of the debate -- Constructing the divide -- Reconstructing the divide -- Hearing the other side -- pt. 2. Putting one's business on Front Street -- Theoretical framework -- Local contexts -- The decorum of information sharing -- The E-mail conversations -- The assigned writings -- Computing on Front Street -- Implications for teaching -- pt. 3. Crucible for critical literacy -- Local contexts -- Intercultural contact -- The tyranny of the majority -- Implications for teaching -- pt. 4. Storytime on the reservation -- Local contexts -- Writing a fictional narrative -- Bedtime story as epistemology -- TV time as storytime -- Implications for teaching -- pt. 5. Revisiting the access issue -- Local updates, 2003 -- From "transform" to "reform" -- Taking action now.
- ISBN
- 0807744638
- 9780807744635
- 080774462X
- 9780807744628
- LCCN
- 2003068697
- OCLC
- ocm54046351
- 54046351
- SCSB-8860601
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library