Promotes modern teaching practices such as collaboration, verbalisation and
multimodal literacy.
Develop writing lessons that encourage collaboration, verbalisation and
multimodal literacy
In a 21st Century classroom this means tapping into the power of
multimodal literacy in order to better prepare our students for an increasingly fast moving and wonderfully interesting digital world.
Jennifer's research and writing interests include
multimodal literacy and digital technologies, collaborative learning space design, preservice teacher preparation, and Montessori and student - centered pedagogies.
Not exact matches
She is the author of Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6 - 12 Classrooms: A Layered
Literacies Approach to
Multimodal Meaning Making (Routledge).
It discusses how visual
literacy encompasses all kinds of mediums — including illustrative content, drawings and paintings, moving images, maps, animations and
multimodal media.
Additionally, Carly said that «finding images is
literacy,» a view supported by new
literacies that recognizes
literacy is about making meaning in
multimodal ways.
Infusing
multimodal tools and digital
literacies into an English education program.
«Faculty need to understand these new
literacy practices and consider regarding them as resources for creating new,
multimodal practices» (p. 3).
However, new
literacies ask students to negotiate language in context and using
multimodal outlets.
Today,
literacy instruction is being defined by changes in technologies that require students to read and write
multimodal texts (Cope & Kalantiz, 2009; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004).
Instead, English teachers should engage school
literacies in which digital and nondigital tools help students inquire into how
multimodal symbols are used to construct and negotiate community identities, relationships, activities, and values.
The integration of digital tools and
multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define
literacy as multiple socially constructed practices.
Infusing
multimodal tools and
literacies into an English education program.
These conceptions of
literacy are associative, culturally situated, critical, active, and
multimodal (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000).
Rather, current conceptions of
literacy are associative, sociocultural, and
multimodal and promote critical, active stances on the part of the reader.
Explore and act on the implications for
literacy and language use in a
multimodal, global society.