New Literacies and Teacher Learning ― Professional Development and the Digital Turn

Education researchers from South America, Australia, North America, and Europe present 11 essays that link professional development to professional practice and teacher learning that is complex, situated, social, collaborative, and participatory and draws on new literacies and digital technologies. They describe projects ranging from primary grades to adult literacy education and university contexts and different approaches to professional development that involve movie editing software, wikis, YouTube, tablets, laptops, infographics, Twitter, and other technologies. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Michele Knobel (BEd, University College of Southern Queensland; MEd, University of Southern Queensland; MEd.TESOL and PhD, Queensland University of Technology) is a professor at Montclair State University. Her publications include New Literacies (2011, with Colin Lankshear) and A New Literacies Reader (Peter Lang, 2013, edited with Colin Lankshear).
Judy Kalman (BA, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; M.S., Centro de Investigacion y Estudios Avanzados-IPN; PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is a professor at DIE-CINVESTAV, Mexico City. Publications include Literacy and Numeracy in Latin America (2013, edited with Brian Street) and El Profe 2.0 (2013, with Iran Guerrero and Oscar Hernandez).