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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.

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Date: 2015

Creator: Fang, Zhihui; Eutsler, Lauren; Coatoam Chapman, Suzanne & Qi, Yang

Item Type: Book Chapter

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Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

This article explores the intercultural movements toward social justice in education in the Americas, most particularly, North America, and how U.S. multicultural movements and policies influence countries like Brazil.

Date: March 31, 2011

Creator: Murakami-Ramalho, Elizabeth & Auxiliadora Lima Dias da Silva, Maria

Item Type: Article

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Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field

This article uses a qualitative, multi-case study research design to gain insight into the perceptions and experiences of special education teachers and administrators.

Date: 2016

Creator: Sledge, Ann & Pazey, Barbara L.

Item Type: Article

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Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

This article describes a duoethnography of two faculty members working in different leadership programs to reveal how their understanding of diversity and social justice has been formed over the course of their lives.

Date: October 3, 2016

Creator: Guerra, Patricia L. & Pazey, Barbara L.

Item Type: Article

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Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

This article uses the example of the Arab Spring to discuss how new media lowers barriers so that more voices may be heard.

Date: March 2014

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders

This article discusses two democratic media literacy skills that teachers can model and teach to help students as 21st century citizens.

Date: March 2017

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

This article reports a Texas suburban school district's efforts to promote cultural proficiency after leadership trainings.

Date: February 3, 2015

Creator: Ezzani, Miriam & Brooks, Melanie C.

Item Type: Article

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Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

This article explores the authors' experience using an ethical framework to teach a course on disability law to graduate level education students.

Date: November 2015

Creator: Pazey, Barbara L. & Cole, Heather A.

Item Type: Article

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Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

This article reviews literature on videoconferencing for global citizenship education and analyzes those efforts towards cosmopolitan citizenship.

Date: September 2016

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carano, Kenneth T.

Item Type: Article

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The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow

This article discusses educators' use of professional learning networks and its impact on their teaching and student learning.

Date: August 2016

Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Trust, Torrey & Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media

This article examines the work of media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman in the wake of participatory media.

Date: 2015

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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The Contemporary Lives of Age-Old Tales: Characters, Contexts, and Critical Issues

Article is a study examining three picture books to consider the significance of contemporary retellings of traditional tales.

Date: 2019

Creator: Mathis, Janelle

Item Type: Article

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Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience

This article seeks to better understand to what extent the Individual Education Plan (IEP) adequately prepared one girl for major life transitions following high-school graduation.

Date: October 2013

Creator: Sayman, Donna M. & Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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Book Review: On Rereading

Book review of "On Rereading" by Patricia Meyer Spacks.

Date: 2014

Creator: Eutsler, Lauren

Item Type: Review

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How Parent Perceptions Relate to Elementary Children’s Portable Technology Use by Gender and Grade Level

Article examining how parents' reports of children’s technology use in the home varies by a child’s gender or grade level. Strategies are provided for teachers, support specialists, and parents to improve how children use technology. Implications for app developers are suggested.

Date: October 29, 2018

Creator: Eutsler, Lauren; Antonenko, Pavlo D. & Dawson, Kara

Item Type: Article

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Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom

This article compares the leisure and school-related computer use of students in inclusive classrooms.

Date: May 29, 2018

Creator: Bagon, Špela; Gačnik, Mateja & Starcic, Andreja Istenic

Item Type: Article

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Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter

This article describes results from a survey of 109 English teachers describing their frequent and versatile uses of Twitter.

Date: April 2015

Creator: Carpenter, Jeffrey P. & Krutka, Daniel G.

Item Type: Article

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Partnering With Parents: Devices and Apps to Support Elementary Children Reading

Article providing evidence of how children from 120 homes across 46 classrooms use apps and portable technology to support their reading development. The finding that nearly all children in this study supported reading skills with portable technology in the home demonstrates the need to foster partnerships between parents and teachers that builds on children's technological knowledge and use to deepen learning between home and school.

Date: 2019

Creator: Eutsler, Lauren

Item Type: Article

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Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use

This article identifies 120 parents' intentions to adopt mobile technology and gathers in-depth perceptions about mobile technology adoption with a smaller subset of 13 parents.

Date: January 2, 2018

Creator: Eutsler, Lauren

Item Type: Article

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Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals

This article describes implications for school leadership and the need for preservice and continuing professional development concerning all aspects of response to intervention (RTI).

Date: March 2014

Creator: Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L. & Yates, James R.

Item Type: Article

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Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts

This article argues that whole district reform is possible in ways that increased student achievement results on standardized tests across two districts.

Date: March 13, 2015

Creator: Ezzani, Miriam

Item Type: Article

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Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter

This article draws on Deweyan conceptions of participatory learning and citizenship aims of the field as lenses through which to consider social media activities.

Date: 2016

Creator: Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.

Item Type: Article

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“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus

This article examines the quality of public schooling in primarily low socio-economic status (SES) areas of El Paso, Texas and reflects on the dismal realities established by the hegemonic social order.

Date: March 12, 2015

Creator: Rossatto, Cesar A.; Rivas, Cecilia E.; Heiman, Daniel & Esparza, Juanita

Item Type: Article

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"Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers

This article reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated professional learning network experiences through the analysis of survey data from 732 P-12 teachers.

Date: July 2, 2016

Creator: Trust, Torrey; Krutka, Daniel G. & Carpenter, Jeffrey P.

Item Type: Article

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Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas

Multicultural Efforts and Affirmative Action in Brazil: Policies Influencing Education in the Americas

Teacher Evaluation in the Special Education Setting: Voices from the Field

Transforming Educational Leadership Preparation: Starting with Ourselves

Democratic Twittering: Microblogging for a More Participatory Social Studies

"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders

(Mis)Understanding Islam in a Suburban Texas School District

Tensions and Transformations: Using an Ethical Framework to Teach a Course on Disability Law to Future Educational Leaders

Videoconferencing for Global Citizenship Education: Wise Practices for Social Studies Educators

The Virtual Workroom: Using Social Media, Teachers Reach Beyond School Walls to Learn and Grow

Platforms, Purpose, and Pedagogy: Reclaiming Context and Resisting Technopoly with Participatory Media

The Contemporary Lives of Age-Old Tales: Characters, Contexts, and Critical Issues

Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience

Book Review: On Rereading

How Parent Perceptions Relate to Elementary Children’s Portable Technology Use by Gender and Grade Level

Information Communication Technology Use among Students in Inclusive Classroom

Learning in 140 Characters: English Teachers’ Educational Uses of Twitter

Partnering With Parents: Devices and Apps to Support Elementary Children Reading

Parents’ mobile technology adoption influences on elementary children’s use

Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals

Coherent District Reform: A Case Study of Two California School Districts

Participatory Learning Through Social Media: How and Why Social Studies Educators Use Twitter

“Troublemaking,” “Making Trouble,” and “Making It” Through Institutionalized Schooling: Critical Pedagogy as a Transformational Exodus

"Together We Are Better": Professional Learning Networks for Teachers