ABSTRACT
This chapter, a collaborative effort, focuses on how both pre-service and in-service English language arts/Literacy teachers are using innovative digital technologies as tools for teaching and learning in their classrooms. Jeanne Gerlach begins with a brief overview of such efforts in the K-12 classrooms in the United States. Three faculty members from the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Texas at Arlington talk about the ways they incorporate digital technologies into their Literacy and English language arts courses. Peggy Semingson focuses on how she integrated digital culture with an online book club experience and how it offered an opportunity for literacy meaning-making as well as a chance for students to consider how they would potentially envision using a book club in their future classroom. Next, Holly Hungerford-Kresser discusses implications from a two-and-a-half-year longitudinal study involving the integration of blogging in the content area Literacy classroom. Finally, Kim Ruebel describes how digital learning as part of clinical practice benefits in the development of future teachers.
