Mark Warschauer

Professor
Department of Education
Department of Informatics

email: markw@uci.edu
phone: 949.824.2526
office: Berkeley Place 3000C

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Books

Learning in the Cloud: How (and Why) to Transform Schools with Digital Media

This 144-page book portrays a vision of how digital media can help transform schools, and analyzes the kinds of curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, infrastructure, and learning environments that are necessary for that transformation to take place. See further information on the book and its contents.

Laptops and Literacy: Learning in the Wireless Classroom

This 192-page book (ISBN 0-8077-4726-2) published in 2006 by Teachers College Press examines literacy and learning in one-to-one wireless classroom. The book is based on two years of research in laptop classrooms in US schools. See further information on the book and how to order it.

Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide

This 272-page book(ISBN 0-262-23224-3), published in 2003 by MIT press, moves beyond one-dimensional discussion of "haves" and "have-nots" to analyze in-depth the nuanced forms of access to information and communication technologies and the ways that differential access contributes to social and economic stratification or inclusion. Order from MIT Press or Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com, or see further information about the book and its contents.

Electronic Literacies: Language, Culture, and Power in Online Education
This 220-page book (ISBN 0-8058-3118-5), published in 1999, is one of the first ethnographic studies published of students' use of new online technologies in the classroom. It is based on two years' of research with culturally and linguistically diverse learners, including Native Hawaiian students and immigrant and international students from Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific. (Price is $22.50 for soft cover, $45.00 for hard cover.) To order, contact Lawrence Erlbaum Associates by toll-free telephone number (in North America): 1-800-9-BOOKS-9 or by email: orders@erlbaum.com (Also available from Amazon.com or, more quickly, from barnesandnoble.com). See further information about the book and its contents.

Network-Based Language Teaching: Concepts and Practice
This 256-page book (ISBN 0-521-66742-9), co-edited with Richard Kern and published in 2000, is the first edited collection of empirical and conceptual research papers about the use of e-mail, real-time communication, and the World Wide Web in language teaching. See further information about the book and its contents.

Internet for English Teaching
This 179-page book (ISBN 0-939791-88-9, co-authored with Heidi Shetzer and Christine Meloni and published in 2000, provides a complete overview of the use of the Internet in English teaching. Published in August 2000 and available at www.amazon.com. Those outside the US may be able to get a reprinted version of the book for free or reduced cost from the US Embassy or Regional English Language Officer. See further information about the book, its contents, and how to obtain it.

Telecollaboration in Foreign Language Learning
This 256-page book (ISBN 0-8248-1867-9), published in 1996, contains 14 chapters submitted by presenters at the International Symposium on Local & Global Electronic Networking in Foreign Language Learning & Research, held in Honolulu, Hawai'i July 1995.

This book might be out of press. You can try contacting the original distributor (University of Hawaii Press) or creatively looking around the Internet.

Virtual Connections: Online Activities and Projects for Networking Language Learners
This 417-page edited book (ISBN 0-8248-1793-1), published in 1995, contains 125 contributions from foreign and second language teachers about how they use the Internet for language teaching, with sections on electronic communication in a single class, electronic communication for cross-cultural exchange, and using Net resources (e.g., World Wide Web)--plus a couple of helpful appendixes as well. To order, contact University of Hawaii Press, Athelstan Publications, Amazon.com, or Bn.com.

E-Mail for English Teaching: Bringing the Internet and Computer Learning Networks into the Language Classroom
This 1995 book is out-of-date, and possibly out-of-print. For a more updated book on a similar theme, see Internet for English Teaching higher up on this page. But, if you want a collector's item, then.....This 120-page book (ISBN 0-939791-62-5) covers the concepts, instruction, and teaching tips to successfully use e-mail, the Internet, and the World Wide Web for language teaching. Information is included on how and where to find online teaching resources and materials, how to set up effective international exchanges, and how to help your students find their own authentic materials on the Net. Also included is a list of important journals, books, email addresses, and Internet sites, as well as a glossary of online terms. Originally published by TESOL Publications.