Literature

Collection of Academic Writing

This literary collection includes a literature review and 2 essays. Each literary work supports ISTE standards and serves as examples of evaluating and reflecting on current research and professional practices pertaining to emerging digital tools and resources.

This Literature review ....

Supporting Literacy through the visual arts: developing new literacy skills for the 21st century learner

This literature review strives to answer the question how can the imaged based literacy practices of the 21st century learner be integrated into classroom practices to support critical literacy skills.

The actualized world of 2038

In this essay The Actualized World of 2038, I used the information I know about current events, trends in technology and our current value system and created my own predictions of what our world will look like 23 years in the future.

Instructional stratagies for teaching creative thinking

In this literature review, I read seven different scholarly journal articles on Instructional Strategies for Teaching Creative Thinking Skills and found several consistent theories for teaching creative thinking skills. Likewise, I found some conflicting theories. The common ideas in each article include a description of creative thinking skills, the philosophy that creativity can be learned and nurtured, various types of creativity and effective common strategies for teaching creativity.

Applying Communication Theory to Museum webdesign

When designing a website, understanding and applying communication theory to the design will help create a conduit for effective communication to a targeted audience. There are countless aspects that could be considered in the application of theories. In this explanation of communication theory, I am creating a Museum website and using fonts, type size, colors, selections and sequencing of information, images, sound, arrangements of visuals and word choices to address how communication theory can be applied.