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Insights From A Service Learning Project: Creating Digital Projects with...
A new post by Jill Castek Melanie Swandby, a 7th grade teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, CA was conducting a service learning project geared toward promoting safe driving...
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Digital Concept Mapping
A new post from Jill Castek I started a new study last week with colleagues Heather Cotanch, Rick Beach, John Scott and 6th grade math and science teacher Laura Kretschmar from Lighthouse Community...
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Expanding the Scope of Digital Writing with iBooks Author
A New Post by Jill Castek Tools for digital publishing are becoming much more sophisticated. With iBooks Author, it’s now easier than ever to create interactive and visually appealing iBooks for iPad....
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Exciting Summer Professional Development Offerings
A post by Jill Castek Professional development and professional networking are important ways to stay up-to-date with new developments and innovations in teaching and learning. This post features...
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Digital Literacies: An IRA Cross-Journal Virtual Issue
In response to the Common Core State Standards, and the growing literacy demands of a 21st century digital world, educators have increased their focus on practices related to critically navigating,...
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Collaborative Digital Reading Response
A post by Jill Castek I’ve gotten excited about the possibility of engaging students (both K-12 and university) in collaborative digital reading responses. I have found that encouraging students to...
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What do the PIAAC results suggest?
A post by Jill Castek In light of the PIAAC data being released last month (PIAAC stands for Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) I’ve been thinking a lot about opportunities...
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Digital Reading as Inquiry
This post was co-written by regular blogger Jill Castek in collaboration with Megan Goss from the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley Reading science texts can be quite...
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Literacy Beat goes to IRA (Friday)
Most of the Literacy Beat Team will be in New Orleans at the International Reading Association (IRA) this weekend. We have created a series of short posts with links to online resources about our...
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Literacy Beat @ IRA (Sunday)
Last year at IRA, Dana was awarded the TILE-SIG Research Award. This year, she is the keynote speaker. The title of her keynote is “Changing the Landscape of Literacy Teacher Education: Innovations...
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Using Technology to Improve Reading and Learning
When friends write a book, of course, you’re excited for them and can’t wait to read it. What’s even more wonderful is when you read the book and it’s terrific – one that you know you will use in...
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Cool Tools from the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy
A post by Jill Castek In July 2014, I was so inspired by the presenters and participants who attended the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy (also see the Institute Wikispace at...
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