Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning
by Jabari Mahiri
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2011
ISBN/ASIN: 0472051539
ISBN-13: 9780472051533
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Digital Tools in Urban Schools demonstrates significant ways in which high school teachers in the complex educational setting of an urban public high school in Northern California extended their own professional learning to revitalize learning in their classrooms.
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