Paola Ferrante is currently a teacher candidate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. She is currently involved in an action research project designed to improve the literacy skills of students in inner-city areas using Blackberry technology. Her other research interests include best practices for classroom management for students designated with behavioural exceptionalities and the literacy practices involved in social networking.
As an educator in an inner-city middle school and a parent of two teenage boys, I believe we must seriously question the effects of using popular digital literacies in our classrooms. Although our own Ministry of Education may...
Helen K. is a grade 8 teacher who believes that using digital literacies to reach her male students is a "natural progression." Her literacy unit that encourages students to utilize computers, video games, the internet and CD ROMs and deconstruct them...
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