Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms

This text introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how teachers can help students make meaningful interdisciplinary use of digital tools and negotiate the connection between traditional and virtual spaces.

Sandra Schamroth Abrams is an Assistant Professor of Adolescent Education in The School of Education, St. John's University, Queens, New York, USA.

Foreword: Layering Life Into Literacy, Jennifer Rowsell. Chapter 1: Introduction: Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning-The Online-Offline Connection Technology and the Classroom. Chapter 2: A View From Inside the Fishbowl: A Culture of Layered Understandings. Chapter 3: Teaching, Assessment, and Layered Literacies. Chapter 4: Making Classroom Material Relevant Through Layered Experiences. Chapter 5: Layering the Classroom Experience. Chapter 6: Creating a Rhythm-Based Culture That Layers Approaches to Bridging In- and Out-of-School Practices. Chapter 7: But the Internet Is Down! Layering Literacies With (and Despite) Technology in the Classroom . Chapter 8: Rethinking Classroom Learning: Affordances of Technological Change and Opportunities for Inspired Pedagogy. Afterword, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis