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Kimbell-Lopez, Kimberly; Cummins, Carrice; Manning, Elizabeth – Computers in the Schools, 2016
Students are growing up in a digital world where technology is constantly changing and evolving. However, their use of these technologies is often more social rather than academically as a way to advance their understanding of key concepts or skills as it relates to instructional content. Teachers know how to teach, and our students are definitely…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Grade 7
Phillips, Andrea; Pane, John F.; Bogart, Andy – RAND Corporation, 2018
The Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative and Green River Regional Educational Cooperative received an Investing in Innovation (i3) development grant from the U.S. Department of Education to implement the Creating College and Career Readiness (C3R) initiative. The initiative offered a suite of software developed by WIN Learning (WIN) to support…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Jacobs, Gloria E. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
This article uses the analytic lens of power relations and models of power to examine how the participation of two students in an urban US eighth-grade English language arts class was symbolically and literally deleted. The researcher asks why do some students fail despite being placed in a technologically rich educational environment that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Urban Schools, Literacy
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Wissman, Kelly; Costello, Sean; Hamilton, Diane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This article explores the experiences and literacy practices of an adolescent boy enrolled in an academic support class, in which students received an open-ended invitation to respond to S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders" with the software programme Comic Life. In constructing this "telling case", we highlight how traditional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Literacy Education, Novels
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Witte, Shelbie – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2007
The Talkback Project used blog software to involve eighth-grade language arts students, preservice teachers, and parents in online discussion of young adult novels and their personal connections with them. The author shares the challenges associated with the project--including the implications of Internet safety and legal concerns associated with…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Language Arts, Student Journals, Web Sites
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Michalski, Paige; Hodges, Dodi; Banister, Savilla – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2005
This article chronicles one special educator's process of implementing adaptive instructional strategies in her middle school language arts classroom. Paige Michalski crafted adaptations for her students with disabilities in the curricular area of digital storytelling (Banaszewski, 2002; Dunn, 2000). Digital storytelling involves telling stories…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Verbal Communication, Language Arts, Computer Assisted Instruction