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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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Stover, Katie; Yearta, Lindsay Sheronick; Sease, Rachel – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2014
Considering the digital landscape of the 21st century classroom, it is paramount that teacher education programs prepare preservice teachers to incorporate technology into their classrooms to engage in communicative and collaborative acts as readers and writers. This collective case study was conducted to explore what happened when nine preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Teacher Student Relationship
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Saunders, Jane M. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
This piece describes how a 5th grade language arts teacher employed technology to create and sustain a metaphorical, virtual, and physical figured world in her class by means of a web site called "The Hive Society." This world positioned students as intellectuals and scholars, and explored how Ms. Smith integrated 21st Century…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Grade 5, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites
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Youngs, Suzette; Serafini, Frank – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2013
Classroom discussions of multimodal texts, in particular historical fiction picturebooks, offer an interpretive space where readers are positioned to construct meanings in transaction with the written language, visual images, and design elements created by authors, illustrators and publishers (Serafini & Ladd, 2008; Sipe, 1999). This study was…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique), History, Fiction