Digital Tools

Catalog description

Digital (online, electronic) tools as best utilized in language arts curriculum and instruction for junior and senior high schools. Addresses many practical classroom matters; broadens knowledge of Web 2.0 opportunities for teaching and learning. Creates a detailed inventory of the digital tools familiar to secondary students, and compares these to what a clever English teacher can access in a public school classroom. Imaginations, studies, and designs digital tools to enhance student achievement. Uses digital tools to increase student access to history and culture and opportunities for individuals to find and articulate their voices, as well as opens avenues for their creativity. Empowers the English language arts classroom with critical understandings of media, culture and public relations (digital information manipulation) and develops secondary students from passive consumers to literate participants in democracy.