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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Fighting the Rip: Using Digital Texts in Classrooms
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Honan, Eileen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This paper reports on a study investigating the use of digital texts in schools serving low and middle/upper socioeconomic communities. It draws on theoretical notions of rhizomes from the work of Deleuze and Guattari to explain the network of relations that are formed in classrooms, and that form the context for a set of patterns observed when…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Electronic Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Reading Materials
Digital Literacies in Two Low Socioeconomic Classrooms: Snapshots of Practice
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Henderson, Robyn; Honan, Eileen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
The teaching of digital literacies is regarded as an important facet of literacy teaching in the 21st century. With many literacy tests continuing to indicate that students' levels of achievement tend to be differentiated along socioeconomic lines, it seems timely to consider the connections between home and school and how these play out in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Family Environment