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Author Monroe, Barbara Jean, 1948-

Title Crossing the digital divide : race, writing, and technology in the classroom / Barbara Monroe ; foreword by Victor Villanueva.

Imprint New York ; Teachers College Press, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  808.042071 M757c 2004    ---  Available
Description xiv, 154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-141) and index.
Contents 1. Reconsidering the terms of the debate -- Constructing the divide -- Reconstructing the divide -- Hearing the other side -- 2. Putting one's business on Front Street -- Theoretical framework -- Local contexts -- The decorum of information sharing -- The E-mail conversations -- The assigned writings -- Computing on Front Street -- Implications for teaching -- 3. Crucible for critical literacy -- Local contexts -- Intercultural contact -- The tyranny of the majority -- Implications for teaching -- 4. Storytime on the reservation -- Local contexts -- Writing a fictional narrative -- Bedtime story as epistemology -- TV time as storytime -- Implications for teaching -- 5. Revisiting the access issue -- Local updates, 2003 -- From "transform" to "reform" -- Taking action now.
Subject English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Data processing.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Data processing.
English lnaguage -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Computer-assisted instruction.
Report writing -- Study and teaching -- Data processing.
Report writing -- Computer-assisted instruction.
Educational technology.
African Americans -- Education.
Word processing in education.
ISBN 0807744638 (cloth : alk. paper)
080774462X (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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