Writing Travelers' Tales on New Literacyscapes

Kevin M. Leander

Reading Research Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003) pp. 392–97

Contends that knowledge about information and communication technologies (ICTs) is unevenly experienced and distributed among youths and adults. Notes that teachers and researchers are confronted with the need to observe and learn from students...

ChipScope: Actually, That Funny Way of Looking at It Works Pretty Well

Kevin M. Leander

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 5 (2014) pp. 471–474

In this article, the author describes and reflects on a kind of vision that is unique to Bertram C. ("Chip") Bruce. This "funny way of looking at it" includes a way of seeing the world as it is made in myriad connections, a way...

Laboratories for Writing

Kevin M. Leander

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 43, No. 7 (2000) pp. 662–68

Looks at online writing centers and their multiple relations to cyber spaces and physical places, as well as to institutional and cultural practices. Notes proliferation of online writing centers, hybrid relations of online and offline writing...

The embodied rhythms of learning: From learning across settings to learners crossing settings

Kevin M. Leander; Ty Hollett

International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 84, No. 1 (2017) pp. 100–110

What does it mean to take an embodied temporal approach to learning crossing settings? What role might the analysis of rhythm have in such an approach? We address these issues in this paper by discussion theoretical connections between Ingold’s ...

Language: English

The Changing Social Spaces of Learning: Mapping New Mobilities

Kevin M. Leander; Nathan C. Phillips; Katherine Headrick Taylor

Review of Research in Education Vol. 34, No. 1 (2010) pp. 329–394

Writing on contemporary culture and social life, sociologists and cultural theorists have been describing new or changing forms of movement, variously described as cultural "flows," "liquid life," or a "networked society." The change in such...

From I-Search to iSearch 2.0

Tara L. Alvey; Nathan C. Phillips; Emily C. Bigelow; Blaine E. Smith; Erin Pfaff; Walt Colt; Kevin M. Leander; Bridget Dalton; Jasmine Y. Ma

English Teaching: Practice and Critique Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 139–148

This classroom narrative proposes a process for reinventing academic research and writing in secondary schools for the 21st Century. We build on Macrorie's (1988) I-Search paper, drawing on affordances of Web 2.0 technologies and culture, to...