Active learning is a form of learning that includes researched-based procedures such as multiple assessments, reflective feedback, collaboration, communication, culture, ethics, critical analysis, goal setting, student autonomy, problem-solving, creativity, reflection, growth mindset, learning relevance, and authenticity.
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Reinventing Critical Digital Literacy to Empower Student-Teachers in Cross-Cultural, Web-Based Learning Environments
César Augusto Rossatto (University of Texas at El Paso, USA) and Maria Elena Rosario (Sharo) G. Dickerson (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch008
Abstract
In the U.S. and Mexico borderland, the cross-cultural relationship is a daily experience. The ever-growing online learning and the digital literacy diminishes the distances and differences. The goals of advanced technology use are to empower each community member to meet the challenges of our current digital divide era. The authors seek to examine this further by posing the following questions: How can technology assist borderland communities and transnational population to think critically about their reality in an ongoing globalizing world? How can technology facilitate critical dialogue for collective empowerment? How can technology create a contextualized learning environment that fosters meaningful connections of real-life experiences as an integral component of culturally responsive pedagogy? To address these questions, they present and discuss qualitative and quantitative methodological findings, illustrating learning experiences, that exemplify and demonstrate how culturally inclusive and relevant educational programs work with adult students.