Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times [Paperback]

An invaluable resource for both practicing and pre-service teachers, this long-awaited book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to “rethink” literacy and technology in today’s diverse classrooms.

Authored by some of the most respected researchers in the field today, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity reflects on the idea that great expectations are achievable through educational projects that foster academic growth, with classroom diversity and technology as catalysts for deeper learning, and that a narrow focus ongrade expectations yields superficial results. Arguing today’s learning principles need to incorporate the core values of community learning, critical pedagogy, multilingualism, anti-racist education, high academic standards, and technological fluency, Cummins, Sayers and Brown provide a thought-provoking introduction into these learning principles that will inspire the life-long learning of students. 

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Provides examples of projects, backed by research-based theories for their effective adaptation to help both pre-service and practicing teachers become more independent and creative in the ways they use technology.

This thought-provoking book offers a fresh and much-needed point of view of how to “rethink” literacy and technology in today’s diverse classrooms.

Authored by some of the most inspirational researchers in the field, Literacy, Technology, and Diversity: Teaching for Success in Changing Times provides a research-based blueprint for implementing pedagogical approaches that promote literacy engagement among low-income and minority students. Extensive case studies of classroom practice document how student diversity and technology can become catalysts for deeper learning. Instead of just pinpointing limitations in today’s educational system, Jim Cummins, Kristin Brown and Dennis Sayers move beyond critique and provide powerful action plans to help you in your classroom!

A Must-Read for any Teacher!

“I am extraordinarily well impressed with the book. It is an essential book on an essential topic and it will bring great clarity to the field.”

-Alma Flor Ada, University of San Francisco.

“[T]he book is very clearly written, inviting, and readable. It is appropriate in level and tone for in-service teachers, graduate students, upper-level graduates, and the educated general public.”

-Mary Lou McCloskey, Georgia State University 

“This text is a powerful argument for a major change in thinking about learning in schools.  Therefore, it provides a valuable vision that stands in contrast to the dominant framework of today’s educational establishment. “

-Donna Ogle, National-Louis University

“This book is an important contribution to the literature.”

-Jana Echevarria, California State University, Long Beach

Ideal text for both practicing and pre-service teachers!