From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom edited by Paul
Budra & Clint Burnham LB1028.3 .F77 2012 New Arrivals, 2nd floor
You know that school’s back in session because our poor printers
are begging for a little bit of a break from all of the syllabi
and class slides and lecture notes that they’re cranking out.
Also present, the mobile devices, as they’re are out in full
force as well. This barrage of technology has obvious impacts in
the way we interact with each other, and this week’s featured
title looks at how it has changed formal instruction and
learning. Budra and Burnham, both professors at British
Columbia’s Simon Fraser University, have assembled a number of
chapters by groundbreaking scholars in the area of technology
integration in literary education. The essays from these
educators seek to answer the conundrum of reaching and engaging
students that didn’t grow up with the physical copies of books
as their main source of enrichment and entertainment. Each
author describes ways in which their