This book offers ideas that secondary teachers, university content faculty, and teacher educatorscan use to challenge traditional literacy practices and demonstrate creative, innovativeways of incorporating new literacies into the classroom, all within a strong theoreticalframework. Teachers are trying to catch up to the new challenges of the twenty-first century.It is a superheroic feat that must be achieved if education is to stay relevant and viable.There is a lot of zip, bam, whap, and wow in the fast-paced, social networking, technologicalworld, but not so much in the often laboriously slow-paced educational world. Where isthe balance? How do teachers and students learn together, since one group has seasoned wisdom with limited technologicalknow-how and the other uses all the cool new tools, but not in the service of learning? These are some important issues toconsider in finding the balance in an unstable, fast-moving, ever-changing world.This book is practical and useful to literacy teachers, teacher educators, and university faculty by bringing together theexpertise of composition/rhetoric researchers and writers, literacy specialists, technology specialists, and teachers who areon the cutting edge of new literacies.
