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The Teaching Professor, Volume 25, Number 8
CLASH! Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo

This book offers ideas that secondary teachers, university content faculty, and teacher educators can use to challenge traditional literacy practices and demonstrate creative, innovative ways of incorporating new literacies into the classroom, all within a strong theoretical framework. Teachers are trying to catch up to the new challenges of the twenty-first century. It is a superheroic feat that must be achieved if education is to stay relevant and viable. There is a lot of zip, bam, whap, and wow in the fast-paced, social networking, technological world, but not so much in the often laboriously slow-paced educational world. Where is the balance? How do teachers and students learn together, since one group has seasoned wisdom with limited technological know-how and the other uses all the cool new tools, but not in the service of learning? These are some important issues to consider in finding the balance in an unstable, fast-moving, ever-changing world. This book is practical and useful to literacy teachers, teacher educators, and university faculty by bringing together the expertise of composition/rhetoric researchers and writers, literacy specialists, technology specialists, and teachers who are on the cutting edge of new literacies. (From the Publisher)

One page Teaching Tactic: to introduce and discuss course content on the first day of class, students work in groups to list what they know about the topic.

Effective pedagogy in the capstone course or integrative seminar — a 1000 word response to a Call for Papers.

Effective pedagogy in the capstone course or integrative seminar — a 1000 word response to a Call for Papers.

Effective pedagogy in the capstone course or integrative seminar — a 1000 word response to a Call for Papers.

One page Teaching Tactic: students discuss the nature of religion by comparing brief descriptions of founders.

One page Teaching Tactic: students are exposed to a reading of sacred text in the native language.

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