IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

Classroom Digital Interaction: High Expectations, Misleading Metaphors, and the Dominance of Netspeak

Classroom Digital Interaction: High Expectations, Misleading Metaphors, and the Dominance of Netspeak
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Jennifer Higgs (University of California – Berkeley, USA), Catherine Anne Miller (University of California – Berkeley, USA)and P. David Pearson (University of California – Berkeley, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 22
Source title: Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kristine E. Pytash (Kent State University, USA)and Richard E. Ferdig (Research Center for Educational Technology - Kent State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch014

Purchase

View Classroom Digital Interaction: High Expectations, Misleading Metaphors, and the Dominance of Netspeak on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

As Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is increasingly adopted for literacy instruction in K-12 classrooms, careful attention should be paid to its instructional benefits and challenges. In this chapter, the authors take a careful look at how the metaphors of social interaction guiding teacher translation of CMC into their lessons mask the full range of affordances and limitations of CMC. Using a linguistic lens, they analyze teacher interviews and student online discussion data to make a case that using Classroom Digital Interaction (CDI) as a pedagogical tool requires a close look at the aims of literacy instruction and the constraints and affordances of computer mediated discussion.

Related Content

Anıl Durmuşahmet, Uğur Delen, Nurgül Soydaş. © 2026. 44 pages.
Sevinç Koçak, Nihal Toros Ntapiapis. © 2026. 28 pages.
Bahşende Çoban Azizoğlu. © 2026. 38 pages.
Zihni Can Çamur. © 2026. 34 pages.
Sevda Nur Keleş. © 2026. 28 pages.
Oğuzhan Alin. © 2026. 18 pages.
Nitesh Behare, Dhanashree Babar. © 2026. 24 pages.
Body Bottom