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Mixing Old Technologies with New
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 2 (1998) pp. 136–39
Notes that along with adding new technologies for literacy, and changing the ways in which older technologies are used, users also create literacies that are hybrids of existing practices. Lists electronic journals concerned with adolescent and...
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How Worldwide is the Web?
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 5 (1999) pp. 382–85
Notes that, in response to remark that one can find anything on the Web, a student said, "You can't find my grandmother in Kenya!" Describes resulting Web search, and discusses important lessons from what they found. Concludes the Web is far from...
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Digital Content: The Babel of Cyberspace
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 7 (1999) pp. 558–63
Takes a fanciful journey into the digital library imagined by Jorge Luis Borges, and uses it as a metaphor to examine what sort of library the World Wide Web is. Examines how digital libraries are growing and what they mean for literacy education....
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Open Source: Everyone Becomes a Printer
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 43, No. 8 (2000) pp. 766–70
Discusses "open source": a method of distributing software in which programmers make available to all the actual text of their programs. Notes that this makes possible "open-source" writing in the same way that the printing press made possible "open-...
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Dewey and Technology
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 3 (1998) pp. 222–26
Considers the role that new information and communication technologies may play. Calls for a reexamination of foundational ideas in education. Discusses technology and John Dewey's conception of learning. Lists some centers based in the United...
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Learning through Expression (Technology)
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 4 (1999) pp. 306–10
Offers a small compendium of examples of the diversity and richness of adolescent life as portrayed through personal Web pages. (RS)
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Challenges for the Evaluation of New Information and Communication Technologies
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 6 (1999) pp. 450–55
Explores some reasons why information and communication technologies are difficult to evaluate. Discusses 10 reasons why information technologies require new evaluation approaches. Discusses two ways to look at any educational innovation: in terms...
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New Literacies (Technology)
Bertram Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 42, No. 1 (1998) pp. 46–49
Intends to increase dialog about new communication and information technologies and explore what these media mean for literacy and literacy educators. Discusses whether the information age will transform literacy, and offers brief "boxes" containing ...
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Alternate Realizations of Purpose in Computer-Supported Writing
Andee Rubin; Bertram Bruce
Theory Into Practice Vol. 29, No. 4 (1990) pp. 256–63
Examines the use of a computer-based system (QUILL) with tools and environments for teaching writing, in real classroom settings, focusing on use of its electronic mail program. Whenever QUILL raised significant pedagogical issues, teachers...
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A New Writing Environment and an Old Culture: A Situated Evaluation of Computer Networking to Teach Writing
Bertram Bruce; Joyce Kreeft Peyton
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 1, No. 3 (1990) pp. 171–91
Discussion of the implementation of educational innovations in classrooms focuses on the implementation of ENFI (Electronic Networks for Interaction) among a consortium of colleges and universities using computer networks for teaching writing to...
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Voices of Youth: Podcasting as a Means for Inquiry-Based Community Engagement
Bertram Bruce; Ching-Chiu Lin
E-Learning Vol. 6, No. 2 (2009) pp. 230–241
A youth community informatics (YCI) research project intersected an inquiry learning model with the making of audiovisual podcasts to foster personal growth and community engagement in a group of Mexican American youth enrolled in an afterschool...