Becoming l(IT)erate : pre-service English teachers and ICTs O'Mara, Joanne 2006, Becoming l(IT)erate : pre-service English teachers and ICTs, English in Australia, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 44-47. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads omara-becomingliterate-2006.pdf Published version application/pdf 164.11KB 123 Title Becoming l(IT)erate : pre-service English teachers and ICTs Author(s) O'Mara, Joanne orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-1125 Journal name English in Australia Volume number 41 Issue number 3 Start page 44 End page 47 Publisher Australian Association for the Teaching of English Place of publication Melbourne, Vic. Publication date 2006 ISSN 0155-2147 Keyword(s) English teachers -- training of educational technology -- study and teaching technological literacy -- study and teaching information technology -- study and teaching literacy -- study and teaching -- audio-visual aids computers and literacy Summary One of the recommended principles for classroom practice from the Digital Rhetorics Project is ‘Teachers First’, emphasising the need to prioritise the requirements of teachers in learning new technologies and in understanding their relationship to literacy education (Lankshear, Green and Snyder 2000, p. 121). While most of my pre-service English Education students use digital technologies for their own purposes and understand the benefits of doing so, it is not always straightforward regarding how technology can be effectively utilised in their classroom and for what purposes. This article reports work conducted with pre-service English Education teachers in an elective unit that focuses upon digital technologies in secondary classrooms. Using Green’s 3D model of literacy as a way of understanding the complex interrelationships between the cultural, critical and operational aspects of literacy, the students experiment with digital technologies such as mobile phones, wikis and blogs. Language eng Field of Research 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified 200101 Communication Studies Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Australian Association for the Teaching of English Inc. Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004006 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Education Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 14:37:34 EST Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 15:18:37 EST Fri, 28 May 2010, 14:35:47 EST Wed, 02 Jun 2010, 15:43:31 EST Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 12:04:16 EST Thu, 16 Feb 2012, 12:05:36 EST Mon, 16 Jun 2014, 07:24:16 EST Tue, 10 Mar 2015, 12:00:33 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 06:13:16 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 13:52:30 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 17:59:15 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 979 Abstract Views, 123 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:09:27 EST