Teaching New Literacies and Inquiry: A Grassroots Effort to Bring About Educational Change in Kenya
Teaching New Literacies and Inquiry: A Grassroots Effort to Bring About Educational Change in Kenya
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教授新的文学和探究:为肯尼亚的教育变革做出的草根努力
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发表时间:
2020
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0.9
通讯作者:
Peter Wanyonyi
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作者:
Shea N. Kerkhoff;Hiller A. Spires;Peter Wanyonyi
As a result of global digital transformations, students need new literacies to fully participate in contemporary society (Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, Castek, & Henry, 2019). New literacies include the additional literacy practices needed as a result of the increase in digital technologies. Specifically, Leu and colleagues (2019) argued that “new technologies such as the Internet and other ICTs [information and communications technologies] require additional social practices, skills, strategies, and dispositions to take full advantage of the affordances each contains” (p. 327). Wangari Maathai’s (2007) quote above implies that new learning is grounded in the known. Following this analogy, new literacies do not replace traditional literacy but rather build on what we know about teaching students reading, writing, and thinking. Maathai’s quote also implies the power of grassroots efforts for educational change. In this article, we describe how local Kenyan teachers prompted professional development (PD) on new literacies within their community.