[Digital_Divide] Fwd: February/March Issue of Innovation Now Available

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> From: "James L. Morrison" <morrison at unc.edu>
> Date: February 2, 2005 2:45:33 AM EST
> To: "Jason Barkeloo" <jbarkeloo at touchsmart.net>
> Subject: February/March Issue of Innovation Now Available
>
> The February/March 2005 issue of Innovate is now available at 
> http://innovateonline.info
>
> Innovate is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly e-journal published as a public 
> service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova 
> Southeastern University. It features creative practices and 
> cutting-edge research on the use of information technology to enhance 
> education.
>
> We open the issue with a conversation between two Innovate board 
> members. Elizabeth Hawthorne interviews Seng Chee Tan, who works for 
> the National Institute of Education in Singapore. Tan describes the IT 
> masterplans that generously supply public schools there with hardware 
> and software, teachers with technology training that emphasizes sound 
> pedagogy, and students with an incredible range of learning resources.
>
> June Brown, Jan Bryan, and Ted Brown follow with an article on the 
> expanding concept of literacy in the 21st century. Global, visual, 
> information, and digital literacy--all are crucial in this era of 
> connectivity. The authors highlight technology tools and resources 
> that can help modern students sustain the classical Greek ideal of a 
> community of literates.
>
> Librarians are crucial to student literacy, as Lesley Farmer reminds 
> us. She examines two administrative roles that will dominate K-12 
> libraries by 2015: school library media specialist and cybrarian. Tom 
> Peters takes us away from school settings to the world of online 
> public libraries. In an interview with me, he discusses 
> LibraryCity--an ambitious effort to make thousands of e-books 
> available to an interactive global readership.
>
> We all know that information and communication technologies have 
> measurable effects on teaching and learning. Bruce Ingraham argues 
> that ICT could also change traditional scholarly discourse. In a 
> thoughtful analysis, Ingraham suggests how the academic community 
> might create, disseminate, and evaluate scholarship in multimedia 
> forms.
>
> Technologically savvy scholars are a unique resource for their 
> academic departments. Colleen Reilly enumerates the benefits of having 
> "faculty peers" conduct workshops and support technology use among 
> their colleagues. This kind of work can be part of routine faculty 
> tasks, Reilly says--and it should count in tenure and promotion 
> considerations. Nikki Finlay would be an admirable faculty peer for 
> teaching colleagues how to use mimio boardCast. Based on experiences 
> in her online and on-campus macroeconomics courses, Finlay touts the 
> software as a useful graphing tool and lists its advantages over 
> similar programs.
>
> Joseph Ugoretz identifies an unlikely source for productive learning 
> in online classes: digression in asynchronous discussions. According 
> to Ugoretz, digression can lead to far-reaching, active learning 
> experiences that may prove even more valuable than the intended 
> dialogue.
>
> Our final offering is the first column in a new series by Stephen 
> Downes. In "Places to Go," Downes will review Web sites that promote 
> and/or exemplify creative uses of IT in teaching and learning. His 
> first choice is IncSub, a site dedicated to open-source content 
> management systems and learning support tools.
>
> Logging on is simple--but we invite you to do more than simply read. 
> Use the journal's one-button features to comment on articles, share 
> material with colleagues and friends, easily obtain related articles, 
> and participate in Innovate-Live webcasts and discussion forums. Join 
> us in exploring the best uses of technology to improve the ways we 
> think, learn, and live.
>
> Please forward this announcement to appropriate mailing lists and to 
> colleagues who want to use IT tools to advance their work.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Jim
>
> ----
> James L. Morrison
> Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
> http://www.innovateonline.info
> Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership
> UNC-Chapel Hill
> http://horizon.unc.edu 
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