April 1, 2006
Libraries: Changing information space and practice
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The book examines how libraries are changing as they incorporate the @ (representing digital technologies) to become libr@ries. The central question concerns how traditional libraries are not being supplanted by digital ones, but rather incorporating them within their histories and traditional value systems.
Kaptizke, Cushla, & Bruce, Bertram C. (2006). Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [ISBN 0-8058-5481-9]
April 1, 2003
Literacy in the Information Age
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Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries Into Meaning Making With New Technologies
[Summary adapted from the International Reading Association description]
Educators today want to go beyond how-to manuals and publications that merely celebrate the many exciting new technologies as they appear in schools. Students are immersed in an evolving world of new technology development in which they are not passive recipients of these technologies but active interpreters of them. How do you help learners interpret these technologies as we all become immersed in the new information age?
The book includes a collection of 32 “Technology Departments” from the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy during 1998-2002. These columns examine critical aspects of literacy in the new information age and the issues surrounding the use of new technologies. They build on specific examples from classrooms, Web use, and other experiences with new digital information and communication environments.
Within the book, the columns, now revised into chapters, are grouped conceptually into six sections
- Historical Perspective,
- New Media Practices,
- Personal Meanings,
- Ethical and Policy Issues,
- Learning Opportunities, and
- Community.
The book also addresses issues such as credibility, access, and privacy, and most centrally an understanding of what new media mean for teaching, learning, and literacy development. Educators feel the challenge of preparing students to live productively within this emerging world and deciding what learning experiences can best prepare students for becoming literate in today’s world. This collection provides tools to explore the way new literacies are evolving as they become ever more central in our lives.
Bruce, B. C. (Ed.) (2003). Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies. Newark, DE: International Reading Association. [364 pp.; ISBN 0-87207-003-4]
The book is now available online.
April 1, 1995
Teacher to teacher
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Alvermann, D. E., Arrington, H. J., Bridge, C. A., Bruce, B. C., Fountas, I. C., Garcia, E., Paris, S. G., Ruiz, N. T., Schmidt, B. A., Searfoss, L. W., & Winograd, P. (1995). Teacher to teacher: A professional’s handbook for the primary classroom. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath. [218 pp.; ISBN 0-669-35984-X]
Also, Alvermann, D. E., Arrington, H. J., Bridge, C. A., Bruce, B. C., Fountas, I. C., Garcia, E., Paris, S. G., Ruiz, N. T., Schmidt, B. A., Searfoss, L. W., & Winograd, P. (1995). Teacher to teacher: A professional’s handbook for the intermediate classroom. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath. [216 pp.; ISBN 0-669-35985-8]
September 1, 1993
Electronic Quills
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Quill was a suite of software tools designed to foster an environment for literacy in classrooms. We wrote it in Paschal for the Apple II computer. The software, teacher’s guide, and workshops were used widely, including in village schools in Alaska, which I visited three times during the project in 1983-84. Carol Barnhardt played a major role in setting up that Alaska project and in helping us understand the history and context of schooling in Alaska.
Andee Rubin and I later wrote the book, Electronic Quills, which looks in detail at the stories of early users. 1982-84.
Bruce, B. C., & Rubin, A. D. (1993). Electronic Quills: A situated evaluation of using computers for writing in classrooms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. [232 pp.; ISBN 0-805-81168-0]
April 1, 1993
Network-based classrooms: Promises and realities
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Students in network-based classrooms converse in writing through the use of communications software on local-area computer networks. Through the electronic medium they are immersed in a writing community–one that supports new forms of collaboration, authentic purposes for writing, writing across the curriculum, and new social relations in the classroom. The potential for collaborative and participatory learning in these classrooms is enormous.
The book examines an important type of network-based classroom known as ENFI (Electronic Networks For Interaction). Teachers have set up ENFI or similar classrooms in elementary and secondary schools and at more than a hundred colleges and universities. In these settings, teaching and learning have been dramatically transformed, but the new technology has brought with it difficulties and surprises. The process of creating such a classroom raises important questions about the meaning and the realities of educational change.
Bruce, B. C., Peyton, J. K., & Batson, T. W. (Eds.). (1993). Network-based classrooms: Promises and realities. New York: Cambridge University Press. [302 pp.; ISBN 0-521-41636-1]
August 31, 1991
Reasoning Under Uncertainty
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Reasoning Under Uncertainty was a project funded by the National Science Foundation, under its EHR/Applications of Advanced Technology program, during the years 1985-91. The project led to a variety a publications and presentations (e.g., Rosebery & Rubin, 2007; Rubin & Bruce, 1991). Andee Rubin and I were the PIs, but the project eventually involved many other colleagues at Bolt Beranek and Newman, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A centerpiece of the project was the Reasoning Under Uncertainty curriculum, a 285 page guide for teachers at middle-school, high-school, and college levels. We developed the curriculum through extensive work with students at Belmont High School and Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School.
The curriculum conceived reasoning involving probability and statistics as central to both science and everyday life. One touchpoint was the daily Boston Globe, which never failed to have articles about elections, the economy, sports, fashion trends, and more, that could not be well comprehended without an understanding of concepts such as margin of error. Thus, we sought to expand the concept of literacy to include quantitative reasoning, or more generally, inquiry (Bruce & Davidson, 1996).
Using both online and offline materials, students could work with existing datasets, such as one demonstrating the relationship between cricket chirps and temperature, or another from Boston magazine showing income, education, and health patterns for Boston-area neighborhoods. They could also collect and analyze their own data, such as license plate data from cars passing through a traffic rotary, which could be used to determine town location of the cars. (more…)
April 1, 1980
Theoretical issues in reading comprehension
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Preface
For many years, the study of reading was taken to apply almost exclusively to the process of learning the written code. It was often assumed that once a child could recognize words in their written form, the understanding system already available from the child’s oral language experience would permit comprehension to proceed smoothly. We now know that reading comprehension is not nearly so simple a matter. First, there is reason to doubt the logic that equates reading comprehension with word recognition plus oral language comprehension. Second, researchers have become increasingly aware of the complexities of comprehension itself, written or oral. (more…)
December 3, 2009 at 10:28 am
Thank you! just what I need to read right now…