Language and Learning in the Digital Age

by James Paul Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes, Elisabeth Hayes

Book Overview

In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today's digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill.

They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media actually power up or enhance the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415602777
• ISBN13: 9780415602778
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"