Includes bibliographical references and index.

The way it's going : neoliberal reforms and the colonization of the American school / Brian Charles Charest -- Gender, process, and praxis : re-politicizing education in an era of neoliberalism, instrumentalism, and "big data" / Jim Burns, Colin Green -- Liminal learning : a theoretical framework for reconceptualizing digital space / L. Johnson Davis -- Where are we if our batteries die? : seeking purpose in educational technology / Pamela Sullivan, Will Sullivan -- The dying of the light : the cause to illuminate in this state of fragile democracy / Westry Whitaker -- The use of eportfolios in teacher education programs to support reflective practitioners in a digital world / Valerie J. Robnolt, Joan A. Rhodes, Sheri Vasinda, Leslie Haas -- Adapting problem-based learning to database courses / Samuel B. Fee, Thomas Lombardi -- Strategies for the successful implementation of digital assignments / Paige Normand, Alexa Senio, Marlena Luciano -- Digital storytelling and digital literacy : advanced issues and prospects / Kijpokin Kasemsap -- Lessons learned building an online degree / Ottilie F. Austin, Gail M. Hunger, Julie J. Gray -- Creating connected educators with online portfolios / Katie S. Dredger, Joy Myers, Pamela Sullivan, Douglas J. Loveless -- Interactive art applications (I-apps) in the development of younger learners' creative thinking : a study and review of literature / Sylvia Vincent Stavridi -- Technologies of resistance : facilitating students' 21st century thinking using material tools / Ann D. David, Annamary L. Consalvo -- Assessment shouldn't be a pay-per-view activity : offering classroom teachers authentic student-centered assessment activities / Daniel Woods, Robert Williams -- Incorporating students' digital identities in analog spaces : the educator's conundrum / William J. Fassbender -- Living the YOLO lifestyle : the rhetorical power of memes in the classroom / Crystal L. Beach, Katie S. Dredger -- Making sense of authors and texts in a remixed, participatory culture / Crystal L. Beach.

"This book explores public narratives of curriculum and instruction in a digital age of information dominated by the education industrial complex. This exploration of the practical use of technology as a tool for teaching and learning, we focus on public education on students and teachers as human beings who use technology to ethically construct and share knowledge"--