Colin Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 5958451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1745-8320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Are Your Moral Duties as a Reader and as a Teacher of Reading
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
The Optimism of Uncertainty
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Critical Internet Literacy
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Why Are You Reading This
Move Over, Reading
The M Word
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Reading Achievement, International Comparisons, and Moral Panic
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Social Media Texts and Critical Inquiry in a Post‐Factual Era
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
What Is Engagement, How Is It Different From Motivation, and How Can I Promote It
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Cautionary Questions
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Blowin’ in the Wind”
Responsibility for the columns included in this department will alternate between the two authors/editors. Donna Alvermann leads off with the first column ( JAAL 60:1). Colin Harrison will take the lead on the second column ( JAAL , 60:2), and so on. We envision this department being a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice—especially when remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring d…
Are Computers, Smartphones, and the Internet a Boon or a Barrier for the Weaker Reader
If boys are spending nine hours a day media multitasking and prefer computers to books, shouldn't they be successful at online learning? Yet, it is not so simple. Online learning requires online reading, which means that boys, who are significantly poorer readers than girls in every nation in the world, may well be struggling to keep up. Text‐to‐speech software and many other online tools would seem to offer personalized support for weaker reader…
Investigating university tutor perceptions of assessment feedback
Feedback is a key element in effective teaching and learning. The issue of how teachers perceive the role of feedback will impact significantly their feedback approaches, the amount of the detail of their feedback and the time and effort expended on the feedback provision. This research was designed with the purpose of exploring how a group of over 50 tutors who were supporting an online university English course perceived, understood and interpr…
Foundations for Smarter Cities
This paper describes the information technology (IT) foundation and principles for Smarter CitiesTM. Smarter Cities are urban areas that exploit operational data, such as that arising from traffic congestion, power consumption statistics, and public safety events, to optimize the operation of city services. The foundational concepts are instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent.Instrumentedrefers to sources of near-real-time real-world data f…
The Brown Bear and the American Eagle of Reading Research
This essay reviews the contribution to reading research of two scholars who died young, Steven Stahl and Michael Pressley, whose work is reflected in, respectively, Reading Research at Work: Foundations of Effective Practice, edited by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl and Michael C. McKenna, and Shaping Literacy Achievement: Research We Have, Research We Need, edited by Michael Pressley and colleagues. Both books attempt an overview of research in re…
Bouchardon, Edme
Bouchardon family
Delacroix, (Ferdinand-)Eugène(-Victor)
France
Fragonard family
Besançon
Bouchardon, Jacques-Philippe
Drouais, François-Hubert
Bosse, Abraham
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
Compellingness in Reading Research
The authors draw on reading research, logic, literary theory, philosophy of science, and mathematics to discuss what makes for compelling claims in reading research
Compellingness in Reading Research
The authors draw on reading research, logic, literary theory, philosophy of science, and mathematics to discuss what makes for compelling claims in reading research
Bouchardon, Edme
Bouchardon family
Delacroix, (Ferdinand-)Eugène(-Victor)
France
Fragonard family
Besançon
Bouchardon, Jacques-Philippe
Drouais, François-Hubert
Bosse, Abraham
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré
The Brown Bear and the American Eagle of Reading Research
This essay reviews the contribution to reading research of two scholars who died young, Steven Stahl and Michael Pressley, whose work is reflected in, respectively, Reading Research at Work: Foundations of Effective Practice, edited by Katherine A. Dougherty Stahl and Michael C. McKenna, and Shaping Literacy Achievement: Research We Have, Research We Need, edited by Michael Pressley and colleagues. Both books attempt an overview of research in re…
Foundations for Smarter Cities
This paper describes the information technology (IT) foundation and principles for Smarter CitiesTM. Smarter Cities are urban areas that exploit operational data, such as that arising from traffic congestion, power consumption statistics, and public safety events, to optimize the operation of city services. The foundational concepts are instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent.Instrumentedrefers to sources of near-real-time real-world data f…
Investigating university tutor perceptions of assessment feedback
Feedback is a key element in effective teaching and learning. The issue of how teachers perceive the role of feedback will impact significantly their feedback approaches, the amount of the detail of their feedback and the time and effort expended on the feedback provision. This research was designed with the purpose of exploring how a group of over 50 tutors who were supporting an online university English course perceived, understood and interpr…
Cautionary Questions
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Blowin’ in the Wind”
Responsibility for the columns included in this department will alternate between the two authors/editors. Donna Alvermann leads off with the first column ( JAAL 60:1). Colin Harrison will take the lead on the second column ( JAAL , 60:2), and so on. We envision this department being a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice—especially when remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring d…
Are Computers, Smartphones, and the Internet a Boon or a Barrier for the Weaker Reader
If boys are spending nine hours a day media multitasking and prefer computers to books, shouldn't they be successful at online learning? Yet, it is not so simple. Online learning requires online reading, which means that boys, who are significantly poorer readers than girls in every nation in the world, may well be struggling to keep up. Text‐to‐speech software and many other online tools would seem to offer personalized support for weaker reader…
Why Are You Reading This
Move Over, Reading
The M Word
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Reading Achievement, International Comparisons, and Moral Panic
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
Social Media Texts and Critical Inquiry in a Post‐Factual Era
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
What Is Engagement, How Is It Different From Motivation, and How Can I Promote It
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
What Are Your Moral Duties as a Reader and as a Teacher of Reading
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
The Optimism of Uncertainty
This department column is a venue for thoughtful discussions of contemporary issues dealing with policy and practice, remixed in ways that generate new insights into enduring dilemmas, debates, and controversies
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