Reviews

Best Practices in Teaching Digital Literacies by

wesleylebakken's review against another edition

3.0

informative, boring. i found nuggets of helpful information buried in the endless, dragging prose, which made it worth it. plenty to chew on, and even more to forget lol

(i promise i’m not that cynical in my classroom!)

lmurray74's review against another edition

2.0

There are some very good chapters in here, mostly the ones dealing with adolescent education. Where it falls down for me is that it lacks a critical edge and discounts writing for much of the time. The chapter on writing uses as an example a teacher who has to push writing into the curriculum but it doesn't question the reason for this: the rise of high stakes testing and the Common Core State Standards. In my mind best practices involves critical thinking skills and questioning the big issues of the day. I have a feeling that'll be in there somewhere but when the editors choose to start out the book with a chapter in which RTTT and CCSS are introduced in a 'neutral' way they are taking the side of the corporate reformers behind both of these measures. There is no neutral in education. You either support and maintain the status quo or you question the power structures that keep so many children and families down.