Search results for author:"Kevin Leander"
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Community Construction in the Virtual: Reconceptualizing Joint Action
Kevin Leander; Barbara Duncan
E-Learning Vol. 1, No. 3 (2004) pp. 420–436
Analyzing the activity of a group of students involved in an online university course with a simulation environment, this article considers and problematizes the idea of online community and its relations to learning. The analysis builds upon Dewey...
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Writing Travelers' Tales on New Literacyscapes
Kevin M. Leander
Reading Research Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 3 (2003) pp. 392–97
Contends that knowledge about information and communication technologies (ICTs) is unevenly experienced and distributed among youths and adults. Notes that teachers and researchers are confronted with the need to observe and learn from students...
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ChipScope: Actually, That Funny Way of Looking at It Works Pretty Well
Kevin M. Leander
E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 5 (2014) pp. 471–474
In this article, the author describes and reflects on a kind of vision that is unique to Bertram C. ("Chip") Bruce. This "funny way of looking at it" includes a way of seeing the world as it is made in myriad connections, a way...
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The Aesthetic Production and Distribution of Image/Subjects among Online Youth
Kevin Leander; Amy Frank
E-Learning Vol. 3, No. 2 (2006) pp. 185–206
In this article the authors consider how youth engage in social practices of identity through their online practices with images. Although they build on social practice perspectives, informed by the new literacy studies, they question the extent to...
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Laboratories for Writing
Kevin M. Leander
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 43, No. 7 (2000) pp. 662–68
Looks at online writing centers and their multiple relations to cyber spaces and physical places, as well as to institutional and cultural practices. Notes proliferation of online writing centers, hybrid relations of online and offline writing...
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The embodied rhythms of learning: From learning across settings to learners crossing settings
Kevin M. Leander; Ty Hollett
International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 84, No. 1 (2017) pp. 100–110
What does it mean to take an embodied temporal approach to learning crossing settings? What role might the analysis of rhythm have in such an approach? We address these issues in this paper by discussion theoretical connections between Ingold’s ...
Language: English
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Case Studies of a Virtual School
D Michelle Hinn; Kevin Leander; Bertram C. Bruce
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 45, No. 2 (2001) pp. 156–63
Explores a virtual junior high school, which was created for an online course to help mater's program students learn more about teaching adolescents using new technologies. Considers how to evaluate the use of new media and how people learn....
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Challenging Ideals of Connected Learning: The Networked Configurations for Learning of Migrant Youth in the Netherlands
Mariette de Haan; Kevin Leander; Asli Ünlüsoy; Fleur Prinsen
Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 39, No. 4 (2014) pp. 507–535
New infrastructures that dramatically change our possibilities for knowledge production and learning have also brought forward ideals on "new" connectivity. Two important ideals of connectivity are that of the individual who tailors his or ...
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The Changing Social Spaces of Learning: Mapping New Mobilities
Kevin M. Leander; Nathan C. Phillips; Katherine Headrick Taylor
Review of Research in Education Vol. 34, No. 1 (2010) pp. 329–394
Writing on contemporary culture and social life, sociologists and cultural theorists have been describing new or changing forms of movement, variously described as cultural "flows," "liquid life," or a "networked society." The change in such...
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Learning potential in youth's online networks: A multilevel approach
Asli Ünlüsoy; Mariëtte de Haan; Kevin Leander; Beate Volker
Computers & Education Vol. 68, No. 1 (October 2013) pp. 522–533
Networked learning is currently gaining more attention in the study of digital learning. Little attention has been paid to informal networks outside educational institutes. The current study contributes to this knowledge gap by researching the...
Language: English
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From I-Search to iSearch 2.0
Tara L. Alvey; Nathan C. Phillips; Emily C. Bigelow; Blaine E. Smith; Erin Pfaff; Walt Colt; Kevin M. Leander; Bridget Dalton; Jasmine Y. Ma
English Teaching: Practice and Critique Vol. 10, No. 4 (December 2011) pp. 139–148
This classroom narrative proposes a process for reinventing academic research and writing in secondary schools for the 21st Century. We build on Macrorie's (1988) I-Search paper, drawing on affordances of Web 2.0 technologies and culture, to...