Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what is meant by Web 2.0, the term first coined at a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly Media and MediaLive International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference.
This is the second of a six-part series on culture in the language classroom by OUP Teacher Trainer, Stacey Hughes. Here, Stacey takes a look at cultural exp...
The research question asks how interactive whiteboards can support interactivity and dialogic communication between teachers and students. This is mostly focused on use in Secondary History; although Primary and middle schools included in the study.
Changing balance of responsibility and understanding through participation. In contrast to 'acquisition of skill or knowledge through internalisation - participatory appropriation is moving towards interdependency and becoming. A theoretical stance that views time differently - as a whole rather than past, present, future.
Use of SFL to map the role of language (form and function) in learning History in Australian Secondary schools. Consciousness raising- both staff and students. Included ethnographic interviews to identify approx. 100 successful texts for analysis. Genre -purpose -staging. Teaching -learning cycle (deconstruction - work on genre- grammar-lexis - students' writing improved - particularly text structure and organisation.
Bezemer,J. and Kress.G.(2008) consider the changing roles of image and writing in the representation of knowledge in secondary school English, Science and Mathematics texts published between 1930 and 2005.
Rojas-Drummond, S., Albarrab, C.D. and Littleton, K.S. (2008) Thinking Skills and Creativity, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 17–191. Rojas-Drummond et al. ‘Exploratory talk’ (Mercer (2008) research in Mexican primary schools and other kinds of productive talk in more open-ended and creative tasks.
C. Leung. Linguistics & Education 2005, Volume 16 (Issue 2):
238 - 252(2005)Different definitions of bilingual education. Explored in international contexts. Looked at language learning in different curriculum areas..