The purpose of this article is to describe lessons learned from studying the leadership in eight award-winning secondary schools and districts that were recognized for successfully leveraging technology as part of the...
The purpose of this article is to describe lessons learned from studying the leadership in eight award-winning secondary schools and districts that were recognized for successfully leveraging technology as part of their efforts for school improvement. Data were collected through observations, interviews, and document analysis in schools and districts with ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse students in communities facing the types of challenges that many schools face today. Based on the cross-case analysis of eight intrinsic case studies, this article offers numerous examples and lessons learned about the role that leadership and vision, technology planning and support, professional development, curriculum and instructional practices, school culture, funding, and partnerships play in leveraging technology for school improvement.
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Rashné R. JehangirFaculty member
department of postsecondary teaching and learning University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development
Rashné R. Jehangir challenges her students and herself to engage with tough issues like class, race, gender, disability, and homophobia. How does she help them learn from, and even embrace, the confict that inevi...
Rashné R. Jehangir challenges her students and herself to engage with tough issues like class, race, gender, disability, and homophobia. How does she help them learn from, and even embrace, the confict that inevitably arises? Read on to find out.
The GNU/Linux operating system is one of most familiar examples of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The Free and Open Source Software paradigm encourages a sense of community and participation, building upon shar...
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(纸本)9781450310178
The GNU/Linux operating system is one of most familiar examples of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The Free and Open Source Software paradigm encourages a sense of community and participation, building upon shared knowledge. The same tenets of collaboration and shared knowledge are espoused by academia and the educational system [8]. However, there is little discussion of the GNU/Linux community and the FOSS framework in much of the K-16 education system. If identified as a participatory learning community, the GNU/Linux community and its utilization of the FOSS framework would represent a stark contrast to the proprietary, black box software and software practices currently adopted in much of K-16 education. Therefore, researchers conducted an online survey to determine if the GNU/Linux community exhibited significant elements of the legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) learning process. This research does not focus on specific units of learning using GNU/Linux but rather is a more general investigation of a possible GNU/Linux community to determine whether more specific research evaluating the educational efficacy of FOSS and the FOSS framework is warranted. This paper presents an analysis of survey data provided by 4603 respondents reflecting on learning within the context of GNU/Linux and other FOSS communities. The intent of the paper is to facilitate an evaluation of GNU/Linux and its properties as a participatory learning community by educational technologists, educators, education administrators, and other education stakeholders. In this paper, researchers analyze data to determine whether the GNU/Linux community exhibits significant characteristics of a community engaged in the process of legitimate peripheral participation. Researchers then identify some of the more significant correlations identified among participatory activities within the GNU/Linux community and learning. Lastly, researchers present community members'perceptions of learning
There is a large body of research examining the discipline experiences of Black males (Lewis et al. in Souls: A Critical Journey of Black Politics, Culture, and Society,2009;Skiba et al. in The Urban Review, 34, 317-3...
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This case study discusses how educational entities collaborate in meaningful ways to address teaching force representation and shortages in critical fields for diverse populations in urban education settings. The auth...
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Despite the high stakes attached to students' performance on assessments of academic writing, we still know little about the challenges students face when composing in academic contexts. To begin to address this p...
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This article presents integrated multicultural instructional design (IMID), a new pedagogical model that is responsive to the growing student diversity in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. and throughout the worl...
This chapter illustrates how shared and divergent partner motivations and outcome expectations in a Sino-U.S. cross-border higher education program have created synergy, but also challenged the implementation of a par...
This chapter illustrates how shared and divergent partner motivations and outcome expectations in a Sino-U.S. cross-border higher education program have created synergy, but also challenged the implementation of a partnership.
Drawing on data collected during the second year of a longitudinal qualitative study that followed over 10 Latino/a bilingual students, this article foregrounds the experiences of participants during their sixth-grade...
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An important, yet either often missing or under emphasized realization in both federal and state standards for literacy is that literacy is primarily a language process and culture is a reflection of language. As such...
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An important, yet either often missing or under emphasized realization in both federal and state standards for literacy is that literacy is primarily a language process and culture is a reflection of language. As such, language and culture must be retained as essential components upon which reading instruction is based. Our nation and our states truly want individuals who can use literacy to learn and to enhance their quality of life as well as the quality of life of those around them. This article looks at essential considerations that must be given to the role of language and culture in literacy instruction.
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