ERIC Number: EJ1073920
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
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You Can't Have a Digital Revolution without Critical Literacy
Myers, John
Canadian Social Studies, v40 n1 Sum 2006
In working with new teachers and teacher candidates in teacher education with the many demands placed upon them, it makes sense to combine a number of learning goals. The following article examines the idea that literacy, technology, and subject curriculum goals are a powerful combination. Indeed, critical literacy with a stress on inferring, is a necessary component of sound use of the internet for source-based history. This article presents two simple but powerful templates for analyzing sources followed by examples of a key literacy orientation for busy teachers to use both on line and face to face in classrooms from grades 7-12. It concludes with a research agenda in the form of some key questions for some of the unexamined issues in the integration of critical literacy and information technology in the history classroom.
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Teacher Education, Information Technology, History Instruction, Technology Integration, Secondary Education, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods
University of Alberta. 347 Education South, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada. Web site: http://www2.education.ualberta.ca/css/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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