A Conceptual Framework for Emergent Digital Literacy

As we progress in the 21st century, children learn to become proficient readers and writers of both digital and non-digital texts. Knowledge, skills, and understandings of literacy emerge through sociocultural interactions with non-digital tools (e.g., paper-printed books) and digital tools (e.g., touch screen tablets). However, debate is ongoing over the role that digital experiences play in emergent literacy development. Researchers have voiced the need to conceptualise a common framework for literacy development that considers the emergence of digital literacy skills alongside conventional literacy skills and how these skills might interact during development. This is particularly important in light of the increasing use of digital texts used by young children, such as E-books and digital games. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework that might guide research and practice by examining the relationships between emergent literacy skills, emergent digital literacy skills, and proficiency in reading and writing.     

A Framework for Scientific Inquiry in Preschool

Early Childhood Education Journal - Preschool children have the capacity to engage in scientific practices and inquiry and develop understanding at a conceptual level. While engaging in inquiry...     

Understanding Technology Literacy: A Framework for Evaluating Educational Technology Integration

Federal legislation in the United States currently mandates that technology be integrated into school curricula because of the popular belief that learning is enhanced through the use of technology. The challenge for educators is to understand how best to teach with technology while developing the technological expertise of their students. This article outlines a framework of technological literacy designed to help educators understand, evaluate, and promote effective and appropriate technology integration.     

The Critical Educators of Color Pipeline: Leveraging Youth Research to Nurture Future Critical Educators of Color

This research study explores a teacher pipeline program intent on developing critical educators among minoritized high school students aspiring to become teachers. Critical educators typically employ critical perspectives, foreground the notion of cariño, and possess agentive qualities to create transformative learning experiences for students of color, especially in under-resourced communities. This teacher pipeline program leverages youth participatory action research (YPAR) as a pedagogy for minoritized high school students to engage in original research studying critical educators in their schools. Findings illustrate that through YPAR, young people surface key perspectives aligned with those of critical educators: the role of institutionalized racism in exacerbating the opportunity gap and the centrality of building relationships in classrooms. In the discussion, the author elaborates on how YPAR advances the pedagogy in teacher pipeline programs, promotes critical perspectives amongst secondary students, and positions these emergent teachers to envision critical educators as making a substantive difference in the lives of marginalized students. The author concludes with implications for educational leaders in P-20 settings to consider in the promotion of a critical educators of color pipeline.

     

A Critical Literacy Frame for UK secondary education contexts

This paper presents a pedagogical, analytical and heuristic tool for the critical analysis of texts, the Critical Literacy Frame, developed through a critical textual and discourse analysis of the genre of broadcast adversarial political interviewing, further informed by questionnaires and interviews with key informants. It is grounded in a social‐constructionist orientation to language, and is underpinned theoretically by insights from Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Literacy. The potential for such a frame, in the context of UK secondary education, particularly with reference to A level English Language and Citizenship, is considered and recommendations for pedagogy, curriculum, teacher‐education, policy and further complementary research are offered.     

欧盟教师数字胜任力框架:技术创新教师发展的新指南

数字科技的爆发式发展对公民应有的能力素养产生了革命性影响.欧盟为了从教育实践层面培养合格的数字公民,于2017年专门面向成员国教师发布了欧盟教师数字胜任力框架,期望通过此框架指导和提升教师的数字胜任力,以赋能学习者数字胜任力的发展,从而培养富有竞争力的数字公民.此框架由专业化参与域、数字化资源域、教学和学习域、评价域、赋能学习者域、促进学习者的数字胜任力域构成,共涵盖22项具体能力.值得提及的是,此框架还从胜任力发展的视角研制了教师数字胜任力进阶发展模型,以指导教师对其胜任力水平开展自主评价和个性化发展.该框架对我国教育信息化2.0阶段推进教师发展具有启示意义:应尽快开展教师数字胜任力研究、制定教师数字胜任力发展标准,以及从以人为本的发展视角持续推进教师发展实践.     

外语教师教育者发展新动向——英国文化教育协会《教师教育者持续专业发展框架》探析

外语教师教育者特殊的专业角色决定了其持续专业发展的独特性。英国文化教育协会《教师教育者持续专业发展框架》描绘了外语教师教育者的十大专业实践、七项执行力和五大自我意识。强化反思实践导向、理解和服务教师学习、提升专业能力、增进角色意识等为其显著特点。它为外语教师教育者指明了专业发展方向、可能的专业实践活动及其范围,亦可为我国外语教师教育者的持续专业发展提供有益的经验和启示。     

A Critical Social Literacy Project: Newfoundlanders Challenge The Shipping News

In this paper we challenge traditional classroom reading and writing practices by presenting a critique of a critical literacy project that used hypermedia as the vehicle for textual engagement and resistance. We begin with remarks that locate critical literacy within a postmodern world, explain why we invited our students in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University of Newfoundland to read The Shipping News (1993), and continue with an analysis of their constructed World Wide Web texts. In addition to the Web pages, our data consist of students' commentaries on the course assignments, emails to the instructors, and the Internet audience's responses to the site. Literacy emerges and expands well beyond its earlier restrictive text-based practices. It assumes a plurality of constructions and meanings that are situated within social engagements with the world in which the students live.     

中小学科学探究教学案例编写框架

探究教学案例是教师在课堂上实施探究教学的实例。探究教学的案例应该以问题与证据为核心轴,以课堂教学中学生活动（动手或动脑）为设计中心,以理解相应知识和掌握探究技能为基本点,以识别科学问题、解释科学现象、使用科学证据的能力为检验指标。编制一个科学探究案例要有构思、有活动、有评议,其基本格式包括了题目、活动构思、活动记录和评议四部分。     

Critical Guidelines for U.S.-Based Counselor Educators when Working Transnationally: A Delphi Study

U.S.-based counselor education faculty increasingly are participating in transnational experiences, such as global research and study abroad. The purpose of this study was to develop guidelines for U.S.-based counselor educators when working transnationally. Using Delphi methodology, 69 consensus guidelines were developed from an expert panel. Implications for the counseling profession are discussed.     

Ways with Visual Languages: Making the Case for Critical Media Literacy

Teaching is a stressful profession. The causes are many but solutions are available to help the teacher cope. The author offers thirteen practical suggestions to manage stress.     

Critical Literacy for Young Citizens: First Graders Investigate the First Thanksgiving

In this piece, we share a story about the power of historical investigation as a means of developing critical literacy in young children. Drawing on the work of VanSledright (Social Educ 68:230, 2004), we outline four aspects of historical thinking as they relate to the development of critically minded citizens. We then turn to a discussion of a first-grade lesson on the First Thanksgiving Feast, reflect on the meanings children took from this experience, and explore possible implications and extensions.     

面向K-12教师的智能教育素养框架构建

本研究在分析智能教育、人工智能教育、教育人工智能等关键概念发展演进及内在关联的基础上,结合知识、能力与素养之间的内涵与关系,阐述了面向K-12教师的智能教育素养的概念及特征:智能教育素养是以创意为内核,教师基于知识、能力、思维、文化价值协同发展,借助教育人工智能技术促进创意设计、创意应用与创意生成的教学实践过程,体现内生性、关联性、持续性、创价性等特征.文章还以教师角色重塑为核心基点,以学习文化、社会活动文化、技术文化为境脉,构建了包含知识基础层、能力聚合层、思维支撑层、文化价值深化层的K-12教师智能教育素养结构模型,并阐明了各层结构中的核心构成要素,以期为提升教师智能教育素养提供引导,为开发智能教育素养测评工具提供理论依据.     

A Principled Pedagogy for Religious Educators

Abstract

Drawing on whiteness literature and over fifty years of combined classroom instruction experience, two professors of race and religion—one black, one white—at predominantly white institutions, answer the question, “How do we as religious educators effectively teach white students to challenge racially distorted assumptions and promote racially just outcomes?” In reply, they call into question the idea of “safe space,” dissect “the white gaze,” and offer three pedagogical principles for preparing white students to be allies in antiracist struggle: principled dislocation, supportive relocation, and sustained cultivation.     

An Australian Proposal for Doing Critical Literacy Assessment: The Case of Writing

In this article we present current thinking and practices in Queens land, Australia, about how to do critical literacy assessment in the English classroom. In taking this focus, we propose and discuss a framework that brings together interest in text analysis and social practices. Then, we apply the framework showing how it can be used to generate writing tasks and assessment criteria that are consistent with critical pedagogy. Finally, the challenges of moving to a socially critical, discourse‐oriented approach to assessment are considered.