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Intertwining Digital Technology and Literacy Methods Courses

Exemplary Practices of Six Literacy/English Teacher Educators

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As forms of communication (e.g., text messaging, blogging, videos, Instagram) proliferate, those of us in teacher education often grapple with the place of digital technology (DT) in our courses. We struggle with both the logistics of using DT and re-conceptualizing our courses to actualize what Bullock (2011) describes as “Teaching 2.0”. Part of the problem is we are being asked to teach in dramatically new ways, with few examples of what “this” looks like in practice.

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Kosnik, C., Dharamshi, P. (2016). Intertwining Digital Technology and Literacy Methods Courses. In: Kosnik, C., White, S., Beck, C., Marshall, B., Goodwin, A.L., Murray, J. (eds) Building Bridges. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-491-6_12

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