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Does doing something old with new technology mean that I__ teaching with technology and that I__ doing so in a way as to really improve the reading and writing skills of the students in my classroom?_ (2007, 214). Her answer, as well as mine, would be no. When we simply bring a traditional mind-set to literacy practices, and not a mind-set that understands new literacies (an idea developed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, which I elaborate on later) into the process of digital writing, we cannot make the substantive changes to our teaching that need to happen in order to embrace the...
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Does doing something old with new technology mean that I__ teaching with technology and that I__ doing so in a way as to really improve the reading and writing skills of the students in my classroom?_ (2007, 214). Her answer, as well as mine, would be no. When we simply bring a traditional mind-set to literacy practices, and not a mind-set that understands new literacies (an idea developed by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, which I elaborate on later) into the process of digital writing, we cannot make the substantive changes to our teaching that need to happen in order to embrace the...

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