Expanding What It Means to Make Evidence-Based Claims: Online Comments and the Boston Marathon Bombings

Kelly Chandler-Olcott

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 57, No. 4 (2014) pp. 280–288

This article argues that exploration of media coverage of a story like the Boston Marathon bombings, including online comments posted by readers, can support youth in reflecting on and thinking critically about a tragedy while offering opportunities ...

Topics: English Language Arts, Standards, Literacy

"Tech-Savviness" Meets Multiliteracies: Exploring Adolescent Girls' Technology-Mediated Literacy Practices

Kelly Chandler-Olcott; Donna Mahar

Reading Research Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003) pp. 356–85

Explores early adolescent girls' use of digital technologies in their literacy practices. Highlights the technology-mediated literacy practices of two seventh-grade girls. Discusses two major themes which emerged from data analysis: the centrality...

Considering Genre in the Digital Literacy Classroom

Kelly Chandler-Olcott; Donna Mahar

Electronic Literacy in School and Home: A Look into the Future. Vol. 5, No. 4 (2001)

Explores the centrality of genre to print-driven literacy teaching and learning. Discusses the disjunction for many people between the print and digital or media texts they read and write. Contends there is a need for genre-focused theories and...

Secondary English Teachers’ Perspectives on the Design and Use of Classroom Websites

Eric Janicki; Kelly Chandler-Olcott

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 2012) pp. 122–144

Although K-12 teachers are frequently exhorted to maintain classroom websites, little is known about how they view or accomplish such work. To address this gap in the research literature, the study described here used qualitative methods, including ...