Digital Tools in Urban Schools
Mediating a Remix of Learning
Jabari Mahiri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Imprint: University of Michigan Press
Published: 01/2011
Pages: 180
Subject: Education - Teaching Methods & Materials/General, Education - Computers & Technology, Social Science - Sociology/Urban
Print ISBN: 9780472051533
eBook ISBN: 9780472900305
DESCRIPTION
Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in
which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an
urban public high school in northern California extended their own
professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms.
Through a novel research collaboration between a university and
this public school, these teachers were supported and guided in
developing the skills necessary to take greater advantage of new
media and new information sources to increase student learning
while making connections to their relevant experiences and
interests. Jabari Mahiri draws on extensive qualitative data --
including blogs, podcasts, and other digital media -- to document,
describe, and analyze how the learning of both students and
teachers was dramatically transformed as they utilized digital
media in their classrooms. Digital Tools in Urban Schools will
interest instructional leaders and participants in teacher
preparation and professional development programs, education and
social science researchers and scholars, graduate and undergraduate
programs and classes emphasizing literacy and learning, and those
focused on urban education issues and conditions.
REVIEWS
"Today there is massive interest in how digital tools and popular culture are transforming learning out of school and lots of dismay at how digitally lost our schools are. Jabari Mahiri works his usual magic and here shows us how to cross this divide in a solidly grounded and beautifully written book."
—James Paul Gee, Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University
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