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Strategies for Gaining Access to the Information Superhighway: Off the Side Street and on to the Main Road (Issues and Trends)
Diane Lapp
Reading Teacher Vol. 48, No. 5 (1995) pp. 432–36
Addresses common questions regarding the use of technology in the classroom, highlights some of the technologies currently being used in classrooms, clarifies some associated terms, and provides some suggestions on how to get started. (SR)
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Tupaq, Katy Perry, and "Schindler's List" in the Secondary English Classroom: Assessing English in New Times
Cheryl A. McLean; Jennifer Rowsell; Diane Lapp
English in Australia Vol. 46, No. 3 (2011) pp. 9–20
This article argues that theoretical understandings of multimodality have enormous potential for assessment purposes in secondary school contexts. Informed by the work of three researchers in three North American high schools, the article offers...
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Homework in Secondary Classrooms: Making It Relevant and Respectful
Douglas Fisher; Diane Lapp; Nancy Frey
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 55, No. 1 (September 2011) pp. 71–74
In this article, the authors focus on homework as an adjunct for learning in secondary school classrooms. Four types of students are profiled, with detail on how the students respond to homework assignments when they do not understand the content....
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Blogging and Audience Awareness
Diane Lapp; Andrea Shea; Thomas DeVere Wolsey
Journal of Education Vol. 191, No. 1 (2011) pp. 33–44
Weblogs or blogging may foreground audience needs for a written work and help novice authors grow in audience awareness and elicit and use audience feedback. A case study of a second-grade classroom compared students' growing audience awareness and...
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iPad Deployment in a Diverse Urban High School: A Formative Experiment
Nancy Frey; Douglas Fisher; Diane Lapp
Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties Vol. 31, No. 2 (2015) pp. 135–150
We explore the use of iPads in a diverse urban high school and the ways in which teachers and students were supported to integrate these tools into their instruction. We provided 4 English teachers with 20 iPads with little or no professional...
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Technology & Literacy: Is There a Positive Relationship?
Douglas Fisher; Diane Lapp; James Flood
The California Reader Vol. 32, No. 4 (1999) pp. 35–38
As computers become an integral part of classrooms, educators need to determine if there are uses of computers that are supported by research. Recent research has examined uses of technology in the classroom for writing instruction, electronic...
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Teachers Online: Using Personal Visual Literary Skills to Enhance Professional Teaching Knowledge (Visual Literacy)
Diane Lapp; James Flood; Debra Bayles Martin
Reading Teacher Vol. 51, No. 8 (1998) pp. 702–5
Argues that the Internet is a valuable information source for teachers. Demonstrates this by presenting an online Internet conversation between three teachers using a teacher "chatroom" to explore an educational issue (how to help students learn to...
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Students Can Purposefully Create Information, Not Just Consume It
Diane Lapp; Douglas Fisher; Nancy Frey; Alex Gonzalez
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 58, No. 3 (November 2014) pp. 182–188
Social media has become adolescents' primary platform for communicating with one another. As a school faculty we wanted to explore our students' ability to contribute new information while being sensitive not to co-opt their out of school...
Topics: Curriculum, Adolescents, Students