Book Review Editor
Diane Martinez / Western Carolina University
ROLE book reviews focus on books associated with multiple literacies, most especially digital and critical literacies, as well as books on online teaching and learning. Contact Diane Martinez for book titles you want reviewed or to be a reviewer.
Diane Martinez / Western Carolina University
ROLE book reviews focus on books associated with multiple literacies, most especially digital and critical literacies, as well as books on online teaching and learning. Contact Diane Martinez for book titles you want reviewed or to be a reviewer.
Coding Literacy
By Annette Vee Reviewed by Drew Virtue “[A] bold project in which the author, Annette Vee, works toward two ambitious goals. First, Vee uses the act of programming to illustrate how literacies are initiated, grown, and sustained as well as accepted by society. Second, she examines the history of literacy related to reading and writing as an investigative framework to question how programming has already affected and how it will continue to affect modern culture.” Read the review. |
Distributed Learning: Pedagogy and Technology in Online Information Literacy Instruction
Tasha Maddison and Maha Kumaran, Eds. Reviewed by Joni Boone “[P]rovides a thorough investigation of how higher education institutions are incorporating web-based tools and distributed learning strategies to promote and support [information literacy].” Read the review. |
e-Learning Ecologies
Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Eds. Reviewed by Joshua Welsh “This collection […] argues that digital technologies could disrupt the configurations of space, the relationships between teacher and student (as well as among students themselves), text-based forms of knowledge and ways of knowing, and the ways of assessing learning that, taken together, constitute the systems of modern education that arose in the nineteenth century and persist to this day.” Read the review. |
Essentials of Online Teaching: A Standards-Based Guide
Margaret F. McCabe and Patricia Gonzáles-Flores, Eds. Reviewed by Remington Jones “[O]ffers a clean, organized approach to pedagogy in an increasingly online world.” Read the review. |
From Information Literacy to Social Epistemology: Insights from Psychology
By Anthony Anderson and Bill Johnston Reviewed by Michelle Payton “[T]hick with studies and theories in psychology, pedagogy, and information literacy in higher education that provides a widened perspective on learning tools to aid information literacy scholars and practitioners.” Read the review. |
Teaching and Researching Writing
By Ken Hyland Reviewed by Kurtis Clements “[S]erves as a comprehensive resource for those engaged with the study of writing—graduate students, writing teachers, and researchers.” Read the review. |
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
By Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Reviewed by Diane Martinez “I expected a chronological history of word processing; I expected to read about programs, computers, and the ways computer technology has changed over the years […] I was, however, pleasantly surprised in the way Kirschenbaum narrated and described ‘in material and historical terms how computers, specifically word processing, became integral to literary authorship and literary writing’ (p. xiii).” Read the review. |
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human
By James Paul Gee Reviewed by Cat Mahaffey “Offering a balance of insight, optimism, and caution, Gee, a prominent scholar on gaming theory, explores the impact of technology on literacy and learning.” Read the review. |