Computer-Mediated Discussions within a Virtual Learning Community of High School and University Students

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Author(s): Tamara L. Jetton (Central Michigan University, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Leo Tan Wee Hin (National Institute of Education, Singapore)and R. Subramaniam (National Institute of Education, Singapore)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch040

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Technologies in K-12 Education

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A university education professor and a high school English teacher redesigned the curricula of their classrooms, so their students could participate in a literacy project that focused on computer-mediated discussions of literature. The goal of the project was to develop both the technological literacies of these students and the more traditional literacies in the form of reading and writing skills. The Book Buddy Project afforded the author the opportunity to create a virtual learning community in which high school and university students incorporated the traditional literacies of reading and writing within a virtual environment that facilitated communication, collaboration, and learning with text.

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