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Cellphilms, Teachers, and HIV and AIDS Education

Revisiting Digital Voices Using the Framework of TPACK

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What’s a Cellphilm?

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For some teachers, it could be a professional nightmare seeing thirty or so students distracted by the internet, their heads down, some tempted by social media, some consumed by an ongoing instant messaging drama, and all their faces illuminated by the faint glow of a cellphone’s screen; nobody, it would appear, is engaging with that day’s lesson.

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  1. Department of Integrated Studies, McGill University, Canada

    Ashley Demartini

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Demartini, A., Mitchell, C. (2016). Cellphilms, Teachers, and HIV and AIDS Education. In: MacEntee, K., Burkholder, C., Schwab-Cartas, J. (eds) What’s a Cellphilm?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-573-9_7

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