Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Youn

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Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Youn. Toward Amore Visual Literacy : Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature. While sharing a wealth of stories from and suggestions for the classroom, Dail, Witte, and Bickmore'e(tm)s Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature will ignite teachers'e(tm) creativity for enhancing young adult literature with visual literacy practices. Item specifics Condition Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ... Read moreabout the condition ISBN-13 9781475835670 Book Title Toward a More Visual Literacy ISBN 9781475835670 Subject Area Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education Publication Name Toward Amore Visual Literacy : Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA Item Length 8.8 in Subject Computers & Technology, Publishing, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Curricula, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Literacy Publication Year 2018 Type Textbook Format Trade Paperback Language English Item Height 0.3 in Author Shelbie Witte Item Weight 7.2 Oz Item Width 6 in Number of Pages 146 Pages Country of Origin United States Category breadcrumb Books, Movies & Music Textbooks, Education & Reference Textbooks See more Toward a More Visual Literacy : Shifting the P... About this product Product Identifiers Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN-10 1475835671 ISBN-13 9781475835670 eBay Product ID (ePID) 242867484 Product Key Features Number of Pages 146 Pages Language English Publication Name Toward Amore Visual Literacy : Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature Publication Year 2018 Subject Computers & Technology, Publishing, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Curricula, Teaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Literacy Type Textbook Subject Area Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education Author Shelbie Witte Format Trade Paperback Dimensions Item Height 0.3 in Item Weight 7.2 Oz Item Length 8.8 in Item Width 6 in Additional Product Features Intended Audience Scholarly & Professional LCCN 2018-001520 Reviews While sharing a wealth of stories from and suggestions for the classroom, Dail, Witte, and Bickmore'e(tm)s Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature will ignite teachers'e(tm) creativity for enhancing young adult literature with visual literacy practices. Chapters written by an array of impressive authors--classroom teachers and pre-service teacher educators--include new ideas for teaching based on remix, gamification, socratic circles, collaborative writing, physical construction, and other new and traditional technologies. Reluctant readers may be transformed and gifted readers will be challenged by the creative approaches described here., Youth deserve the right to not just read books that speak to them, but to create, produce, and perform alongside the very texts that they are reading. Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature provides teachers insight into those very literacies that youth uptake in their interest-driven spaces, while providing practical ideas for teaching texts in innovative ways alongside their students rather than at their students. This book is a must read for any teacher looking for innovative ways to inspire their English language arts classroom in the digital era., While ELA teachers are constantly being told to integrate technology into their instruction, Toward a More Visual Literacy answers the crucial questions of how and why we should do so namely, to support young people as not only consumers, but also producers of digital texts that connect them to the world outside the classroom and help them forge transformative futures for themselves and our society. The contributors share innovative classroom literacy practices that foster digital social imagination and offer all educators inspiration for merging literary response, multimodal composing, and civic engagement., Though many teachers strive to "integrate" technology, there are very few who innovate with it. Framed with thoughtful attention to curricular guidelines offered by ISTE and NCTE and rooted in the scholarship of participatory culture Dail, Witte, and Bickmore's collection brings together over twenty voices from middle and high school classrooms. Exploring classic and contemporary texts from The Great Gatsby to Monster, from Feed to All American Boys, the authors in this collection share strategies for digital reading, flipping the classroom, rethinking the socratic seminar, and moving students into virtual worlds with tools like Minecraft and social media. Beyond typical school assignments that only aim to layer technology in as an afterthought, Toward a More Visual Literacydemonstrates practical ways for teachers to engage students in YA literature, both in their classrooms and throughout our digital world., While sharing a wealth of stories from and suggestions for the classroom, Dail, Witte, and Bickmores Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature will ignite teachers creativity for enhancing young adult literature with visual literacy practices. Chapters written by an array of impressive authors--classroom teachers and pre-service teacher educators--include new ideas for teaching based on remix, gamification, socratic circles, collaborative writing, physical construction, and other new and traditional technologies. Reluctant readers may be transformed and gifted readers will be challenged by the creative approaches described here., The issues canvassed in the book are crucial to the adaptation of pedagogies for literacies development so that students growing up into the online digital multimodal communication world are assured of the relevance and importance of this aspect of their formal education to their lives within and beyond their schooling., We may now be certain that the rise of the Internet did not, as feared, implode the teaching of English. But it has changed things, things that require confident and critical attention. That is precisely what this book offers. Dail, Witte, and Bickmore have assembled a digitally dextrous team of scholars whose chapters will leave readers with a newfound confidence in the creative power of young people'e(tm)s visual literacies., The editors of Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature have curated a collection of essays by teachers and teacher educators that examine the possibilities of exploring young adult literature through the lens of digital literacies. The chapters are written with teachers in mind and offer aspirational models of lessons that could be adapted and, to use a term from the collection, remixed for learners at any grade level., The editors of Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature have curated a collection of essays by teachers and teacher educators that examine the possibilities of exploring young adult literature through the lens of digital literacies. The chapters are written with teachers in mind and offer aspirational models of lessons that could be adapted and, to use a term from the collection, 'eoeremixed'e for learners at any grade level., The editors of Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature have curated a collection of essays by teachers and teacher educators that examine the possibilities of exploring young adult literature through the lens of digital literacies.The chapters are written with teachers in mind and offer aspirational models of lessons that could be adapted and, to use a term from the collection, "remixed" for learners at any grade level., We may now be certain that the rise of the Internet did not, as feared, implode the teaching of English. But it has changed things, things that require confident and critical attention. That is precisely what this book offers. Dail, Witte, and Bickmore have assembled a digitally dextrous team of scholars whose chapters will leave readers with a newfound confidence in the creative power of young peoples visual literacies., We may now be certain that the rise of the Internet did not, as feared, implode the teaching of English. But it has changed things, things that require confident and critical attention. That is precisely what this book offers. Dail, Witte, and Bickmore have assembled a digitally dextrous team of scholars whose chapters will leave readers with a newfound confidence in the creative power of young people's visual literacies., Though many teachers strive to "integrate" technology, there are very few who innovate with it. Framed with thoughtful attention to curricular guidelines offered by ISTE and NCTE 'e" and rooted in the scholarship of participatory culture 'e" Dail, Witte, and Bickmore's collection brings together over twenty voices from middle and high school classrooms. Exploring classic and contemporary texts from The Great Gatsby to Monster, from Feed to All American Boys, the authors in this collection share strategies for digital reading, flipping the classroom, rethinking the socratic seminar, and moving students into virtual worlds with tools like Minecraft and social media. Beyond typical school assignments that only aim to layer technology in as an afterthought, Toward a More Visual Literacydemonstrates practical ways for teachers to engage students in YA literature, both in their classrooms and throughout our digital world., While sharing a wealth of stories from and suggestions for the classroom, Dail, Witte, and Bickmore's Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature will ignite teachers' creativity for enhancing young adult literature with visual literacy practices. Chapters written by an array of impressive authors--classroom teachers and pre-service teacher educators--include new ideas for teaching based on remix, gamification, socratic circles, collaborative writing, physical construction, and other new and traditional technologies. Reluctant readers may be transformed and gifted readers will be challenged by the creative approaches described here., The editors of Toward a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature have curated a collection of essays by teachers and teacher educators that examine the possibilities of exploring young adult literature through the lens of digital literacies. The chapters are written with teachers in mind and offer aspirational models of lessons that could be adapted and, to use a term from the collection, "remixed" for learners at any grade level., While ELA teachers are constantly being told to integrate technology into their instruction, Toward a More Visual Literacy answers the crucial questions of how and why we should do so 'e" namely, to support young people as not only consumers, but also producers of digital texts that connect them to the world outside the classroom and help them forge transformative futures for themselves and our society. The contributors share innovative classroom literacy practices that foster digital social imagination and offer all educators inspiration for merging literary response, multimodal composing, and civic engagement., While ELA teachers are constantly being told to integrate technology into their instruction, Toward a More Visual Literacy answers the crucial questions of how and why we should do so - namely, to support young people as not only consumers, but also producers of digital texts that connect them to the world outside the classroom and help them forge transformative futures for themselves and our society. The contributors share innovative classroom literacy practices that foster digital social imagination and offer all educators inspiration for merging literary response, multimodal composing, and civic engagement., Though many teachers strive to "integrate" technology, there are very few who innovate with it. Framed with thoughtful attention to curricular guidelines offered by ISTE and NCTE - and rooted in the scholarship of participatory culture - Dail, Witte, and Bickmore's collection brings together over twenty voices from middle and high school classrooms. Exploring classic and contemporary texts from The Great Gatsby to Monster, from Feed to All American Boys, the authors in this collection share strategies for digital reading, flipping the classroom, rethinking the socratic seminar, and moving students into virtual worlds with tools like Minecraft and social media. Beyond typical school assignments that only aim to layer technology in as an afterthought, Toward a More Visual Literacydemonstrates practical ways for teachers to engage students in YA literature, both in their classrooms and throughout our digital world. Illustrated Yes Table Of Content Foreword Lisa Scherff Introduction: Positioning Students as Creators in the Classroom Jennifer S. Dail and Shelbie Witte Part I: Classroom Contexts: Helping Students Visualize Digitally Chapter 1- "It's about more than words:" Reading All American Boys in a Social Digital Reading Environment Sara Kajder Chapter 2- Flipping the Teaching of Young Adult Literature Amy Piotrowski Chapter 3- Learning Conversations: Ancient Practice Meets New Technology Jenny Cameron Paulsen and Matt Copeland Part II: Social Engagement: Connecting Youth Beyond School Chapter 4- Responding to Young Adult Literature through Civic Engagement Kristen Hawley Turner and Dawn Reed Chapter 5- Social Media, Gaming, and Jay Gatsby: Integrating Youth Motifs with Youth Literacies in High School English Alison Heron Hruby, Lindsay Ellis Johnson, Dakoda Trenary, and Dallas Cox Chapter 6- Infusing Young Adult Literature into the Virtual Classroom Brooke Eisenbach, Paula Greathouse, and Jennifer Farnham III: Critical Inquiry: Digging Deeper with Young Adult Literature Chapter 7- Emerging Media, Evolving Engagement: Expanding Teachers' Repertoires of Literary Study and Response Anna Smith and Robyn Seglem Chapter 8- Seeing the World Differently: Remixing Young Adult Literature through Critical Lenses Jennifer S. Dail and Aneté Vasquez Chapter 9- Song of Myself: A Digital Unit of Study Remixed Fawn Canady, Kymberly Martin, and Chyllis Scott About the Editors About the Contributors sold as is no returns or exchanges ships USA ONLY