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Main Author: Collins, Joan
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ904835
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contents Transform Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0 Collins, Joan Cultural Differences Grade 7 Fiction School Libraries Librarians Books Middle Schools Reading Lists Reading Motivation Technology Uses in Education Librarian Teacher Cooperation Today's graduates will live and work with people from unknown places and backgrounds. Through the world of story students can journey through unfamiliar cultures, gaining knowledge and understanding of challenges faced by their contemporaries around the world. By selecting fiction books with a global focus, school librarians broaden student choice and develop new understandings of cultural differences. By combining fiction books with a global focus and student-centered technology, "Global Literature Circles and Web 2.0" recasts classrooms for 21st century learning. Using technology innovatively, students acquire, share, and apply newly gained knowledge based on a foundation of reading and research. Students become engaged with groundbreaking Web 2.0 technology and gripping multicultural fiction. The author says by integrating Web 2.0 tools into projects, today's digital natives will become thoroughly engaged. Curriculum will be more relevant to their lives as they become Web 2.0 savvy global citizens. A booklist for 7th grade and a 21st century skills toolkit are included.
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spellingShingle Transform Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0
Collins, Joan
Cultural Differences
Grade 7
Fiction
School Libraries
Librarians
Books
Middle Schools
Reading Lists
Reading Motivation
Technology Uses in Education
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Transform Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0 Collins, Joan Cultural Differences Grade 7 Fiction School Libraries Librarians Books Middle Schools Reading Lists Reading Motivation Technology Uses in Education Librarian Teacher Cooperation Today's graduates will live and work with people from unknown places and backgrounds. Through the world of story students can journey through unfamiliar cultures, gaining knowledge and understanding of challenges faced by their contemporaries around the world. By selecting fiction books with a global focus, school librarians broaden student choice and develop new understandings of cultural differences. By combining fiction books with a global focus and student-centered technology, "Global Literature Circles and Web 2.0" recasts classrooms for 21st century learning. Using technology innovatively, students acquire, share, and apply newly gained knowledge based on a foundation of reading and research. Students become engaged with groundbreaking Web 2.0 technology and gripping multicultural fiction. The author says by integrating Web 2.0 tools into projects, today's digital natives will become thoroughly engaged. Curriculum will be more relevant to their lives as they become Web 2.0 savvy global citizens. A booklist for 7th grade and a 21st century skills toolkit are included.
title Transform Global Literature Circles with Web 2.0
topic Cultural Differences
Grade 7
Fiction
School Libraries
Librarians
Books
Middle Schools
Reading Lists
Reading Motivation
Technology Uses in Education
Librarian Teacher Cooperation
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ904835