Globalization, Digital Technology, and Teacher Education in the United States Reference library
Jared Keengwe
Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on Teacher Education
...A challenge for a demographic reality. Journal of Teacher Education , 61 (1–2), 132–142. Gay, G. (2002). Preparing for culturally responsive teaching. Journal of Teacher Education , 53 (2), 106–116. Global Digital Citizen Foundation . (n.d.). Global Digital Citizen . https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies/global-digital-citizenship Global Teacher Education . (2013). What is global competence? http://www.globalteachereducation.org/ Grabe, M. & Grabe, C. (2008). Integrating technology for meaningful learning (5th ed.). Boston...
Bell, Gertrude (14 July 1868) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
...1868 ; d. Baghdad , 11/12 July 1926). English archaeologist and architectural historian . The first woman to achieve a first-class honors in modern history at Oxford University, she traveled widely in Europe, Japan and especially the Middle East in the 1890s, achieving fluency in a number of European languages as well as in Persian, Turkish and Arabic. She developed an interest in archaeology and architecture that was reflected in an authoritative set of articles on the Early Byzantine churches of Syria and southern Turkey, based on her travels in ...
Social Media and School Leadership Efficiency Reference library
Byabazaire Yusuf, Lynne M. Walters, and Abdul Halim Mohamed
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration
...National Educational Technology Standards for students proposed by the International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) that call for education propelled by creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and digital citizenship ( ISTE, 2017 ). Social media open up more opportunities for globalization in schools, as social media tools enable heads of schools to share ideas with their colleagues across the globe. It is clear in the 21st century that social...
Literacy Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to the English Language (2 ed.)
...Revolution and, prior to the 20c, was generally confined to centres of education in cities. Country schools, whose pupils were needed to work the land and whose instructors were not always professionally certified, generally offered training in basic skills rather than fluency in written language. Both in town and country, however, children were drilled first on letter names and sounds, then on syllables and words. During the 19c, many reform-minded educators stressed the need for comprehension of reading materials, asserting that encountering words in...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) (China and India: Assessing Sustainability) Reference library
Ashok JHUNJHUNWALA and Janani RANGARAJAN
Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability
...) without any loss of signal. An analog signal could thus be quantized ( Rabaey 2003 ) or discretized in amplitude domain, and the resulting digital signal could now be represented by a string of numbers (for example, 10110010110, if coded using a binary number system). Furthermore, these digitized voice/video signals could be stored digitally and, more importantly, processed digitally. Systems themselves became digital, whether they were communication systems like telephones or entertainment systems like television. A breakthrough came with the advent of the...
Industrial and Organizational Psychology From a Global Perspective Reference library
Mo Wang, Chengquan Huang, Junhui Yang, and Zhefan Huang
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Industrial, Work, and Organizational Psychology
...to realize that the popularity of digital technology and the increasing usage of AI are changing the global workforce into a “digital workforce” ( Colbert et al., 2016 ). The increasing usage of information technology is changing the nature of work and the methods of completing work tasks considerably. Briggs and Makice (2012) proposed the concept of “digital fluency” to describe workers’ proficiency and comfort in achieving desired outcomes using technology. Digital equipment (e.g., computers/laptops, smartphones) and digital applications (e.g., virtual...
LGBTQ Youth Cultures and Social Media Reference library
Olu Jenzen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Queer Studies and Communication
...and LGBTQ+ online forums, some specifically for LGBTQ+ youth ( Cserni & Talmud, 2015 ; Gray, 2009a ). These sites served community needs, often as hubs of information and knowledge exchange. However, they lacked the fluency and more lively interaction of social media. LGBTQ+ communities are among the early adopters of online networked digital media, including earlier versions of social media such as MySpace (launched 2003 ), to mention one ( Macintosh & Bryson, 2008 ). A trans YouTube community emerged around 2006 ( Raun, 2016 ), and at around the same...
Evidence-based Practices for Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities Reference library
Rubina S. Lal and M. Thomas Kishore
Oxford Encyclopedia of Inclusive and Special Education
...prevents spelling errors, and saves the students with LD from the embarrassment that is caused by poorly handwritten or typed assignments. Similarly, use of digital pens has been effective in writing skills. While digital pens write like ball pens, they translate the written matter into digital files. The audio-recording facility in the digital pens links spoken words to written words before creating digital files. This helps students with LDs in reading and writing ( Patti & Garland, 2015 ). Mathematics Skills. Strategy training has been helpful for students...
Reading Comprehension and Culturally Diverse Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand Reference library
Stuart McNaughton, Rebecca Jesson, and Aaron Wilson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...about a quarter of 13-year-old students say they have never had the opportunity to read books that reflect their social and cultural identities ( National Monitoring of Student Achievement [NMSSA], 2014 ). Reading Comprehension as Digitally Mediated A final feature of reading comprehension comes from the increasing access to digital learning and therefore texts online. Reading on screen seems to result in lower performances on reading comprehension as compared with the same text on paper ( Eyre et al., 2017 ). However, the effects are small and noticeable only...
News Editing and the Editorial Process Reference library
Tim Klein, Elisabeth Fondren, and Leonard M. Apcar
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies
...field, with journals such as Journalism Studies , Journalism, and Journalism Practice , and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication . New subfields, such as digital journalism studies, continue to develop, with journals such as Digital Journalism , The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism , and The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies . Editing in the Digital Era The entire news cycle has accelerated, and the daily deadlines of print newspapers have been replaced by an incessant 24-hour race to publish. With declining ad revenue,...
fringe Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
...primarily on its *phenomenology , which remains controversial. Nonetheless, separate aspects of fringe cognition, some at the fringes of the core concept of the fringe itself, have become targets for empirical study, including ‘cognitive feelings’ of familiarity, rightness, fluency, ‘tip of the tongue’, and others ( See feeling of knowing ). While these excursions can potentially illuminate the fringe as an element of consciousness, only when fringe phenomenology is understood will there be an unambiguous target for cognitive and neural explanation. 1. ...
Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching Learners With Mild to Moderate Disabilities Reference library
Rebekka J. Jez
Oxford Encyclopedia of Inclusive and Special Education
...This program has learners take turns coaching and giving feedback to their peers (role of the tutor), which has been shown to have a positive effect on comprehension and reading fluency for youth with disabilities ( Mathes & Babyak, 2001 ; McMaster, Fuchs, Fuchs, & Compton, 2005 ; Stein et al., 2008 ). Reading. One evidence-based practice that effectively increases reading fluency, achievement, and comprehension for fifth through 12th graders with specific learning disabilities is repeated reading ( Ellis & Graves, 1990 ; Wexler, Vaughn, Roberts, &...
Literacy Reference library
Lee Morrissey
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory
...(partially invested in developing and intensifying literacy), to mention just a few. At the same time, “literacy” has become a powerful and diffuse metaphor, representing a fluency, a competency, or a skill in manipulating information. As a consequence of this meaning of and centrality accorded to literacy, there are said to be many varieties of literacy (e.g., cultural literacy, digital literacy, financial literacy, and numerical literacy), indeed, more forms of literacies than there are written languages as the metaphor of literacy drifts away from its...
New Mexico Newspapers Reference library
Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...36 This is the world to which Aurora was exposed at an early age, and she too became involved in the politics of the preservation of language and culture within 20th-century New Mexico. Her essay on language rights following the Enabling Act of 1910 —which required fluency in the English language to hold state government positions—gained her notoriety as an early pioneer of women’s participation in the press. The 1920s and 1930s saw more Hispanic New Mexican women participating in the press, most of whom were connected, in some way, to los periodiqueros...
Bollywood and Asian American Culture Reference library
Jigna Desai
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
...role of popular culture and media, including Bollywood, in Asian America seriously. However, new directions from Bollywood research include further attention to audiences and cross-ethnic viewing. Links to Digital Materials Indian Cinema , University of Iowa. The Life and Times of V. Shantaram: A Colossus of Indian Cinema . South Asian American Digital Archive . Further Reading Desai, Jigna . Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film . New York: Routledge, 2004. Desai, Jigna . “The Scale of Diasporic Cinema: Negotiating National...
Effective Practices for Teaching Writing to Students with Disabilities in the United States Reference library
April Camping and Steve Graham
Oxford Encyclopedia of Inclusive and Special Education
...Harris, Graham, Mason, & Friedlander, 2008 ). Effective writing teachers also recognize the importance of teaching students foundational writing skills involving handwriting, spelling, typing, and sentence construction ( Graham et al., 2015 ). Until reasonable mastery of and fluency with these skills is attained, they may cause interference with other writing processes ( Berninger, 1999 ). For instance, a student who has to think about how to spell words frequently while writing is likely to experience difficulty with the generation and organization of...
Critical ESL Education in Canada Reference library
Sunny Man Chu Lau
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...their own language and education policies, English-as-a-second language 1 (ESL) education varies across provinces and territories. In most “Anglo-Canadian” education contexts where English is the medium of instruction, ESL support is provided to learners who need the language fluency and proficiency to access content, most of whom have recent immigrant or refugee backgrounds (i.e., those who arrived in Canada within the past 5 years) or whose mother tongues are Indigenous languages. Different jurisdictions also use different labels for such curricular...
Strategies for Countering False Information and Beliefs about Climate Change Reference library
R. Kelly Garrett
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
... Fluency refers to the ease with which something is perceived and understood. Like accessibility, fluency affects judgments of truth ( Schwarz & Clore, 2007 ), a phenomenon referred to as the illusory truth effect ( DiFonzo, Beckstead, Stupak, & Walders, 2016 ). There is sense to this heuristic: accurate ideas about the natural world tend to be reinforced more often, which makes them easier to understand than inaccurate ideas. But fluency can also be misleading. Individuals tend to be unaware of the range of factors that influence the experience of fluency,...
Online Networks in Teacher Education Reference library
Nick Kelly
Oxford Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on Teacher Education
...in complex learning environments. American Behavioral Scientist , 57 (10), 1401–1420. Trust, T. (2012). Professional learning networks designed for teacher learning. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education , 28 (4), 133–138. Trust, T. (2015). Deconstructing an online community of practice: Teachers’ actions in the Edmodo math subject community. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education , 31 (2), 73–81. Trust, T. , Krutka, D. G. , & Carpenter, J. P. (2016). “Together we are better”: Professional learning networks for teachers. Computers...
Race, Social Justice, and University Language Programs from an International Perspective Reference library
Elisa Gavari Starkie and Paula Tenca Sidotti
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...that contradict scientific research affirming the importance of bilingual education and the transfer of knowledge that comes from moving between languages. The 1960s marked the beginning of a new era, marked not only by the Cold War, which accelerated the need for greater fluency in other languages, but also by the political upheaval and social movements which lead to unprecedented educational policy reforms. Beginning with Kennedy’s brief tenure, which ended in 1963 , American policies were inspired by the principle of equal opportunity to education and...
