ur conceptualization of literacy is ever evolving. It includes attention to new,
digital, and multimodal literacies and acknowledges that these literacies change
our habits as readers. Teachers use text, technology, and media critically and
strategically for reading, composing, and learning with their students, yet many
have not experienced this kind of pedagogy as students themselves.
Before teachers can fully imagine the ways technology can transform
instruction, they must first see the power in their own professional learning.
To truly transform teacher learning, we must develop new practices that
make use of the very tools and resources teachers might use in their own
By Stephanie Affi nito
MODELING DIGITAL
LEARNING
Transforming teacher learning with digital tools
Stephanie Affi nito
(saffi nito@albany.edu), an ILA
member since 1999, is a staff
associate at the University of
Albany’s Department of Literacy
Teaching and Learning in
New York.
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