Recently, educators have begun to consider what is required in literacy curricula and best teaching practices given the demands placed on the education sector and on literacy in general. Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom features theoretical reflections and approaches on the use of multiliteracies and technologies in the improvement of education and social practices. Assisting educators at different teaching levels and fostering professional development and progress in this growing field, this innovative publication supports practitioners concerned with teaching at both a local and global level.
Author(s): Darren L. Pullen, David R. Cole
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 340
Title
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Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgment......Page 27
Theoretical Frameworks for Technology and Multiliteracies......Page 29
Multiliteracies and the New World Order......Page 30
Multimodal, Multiliteracies: Texts and Literacies for the 21st Century......Page 47
Convergence: A Framework for a “New” Critical Literacy......Page 64
The Dynamic Design of Learning with Text: The Grammar of Multiliteracies......Page 82
Sociocultural Aspects of Technology Through a Multiliteracies Perspective......Page 99
Riding Critical and Cultural Boundaries:A Multiliteracies Approach to Reading Television Sitcoms......Page 100
Rethinking Literacy in Culturally Diverse Classrooms......Page 112
Pragmatism and Philosophy: Enriching Students’ Lives through a Critical Investigation of Spatial Literacy in Shared Spaces......Page 129
Multiliteracies in Practice......Page 144
Cam-Capture Literacy and its Incorporation into Multiliteracies......Page 145
Theorizing Media Productions as Complex Literacy Performances Among Youth In and Out of Schools......Page 162
Practicing or Preaching? Teacher Educators and Student Teachers Appropriating New Literacies......Page 176
ICT Integration in Second Language Writing:A Malay Language Case Study......Page 196
Multiliteracies in Secondary Chemistry: A Model for Using Digital Technologies to Scaffold the Development of Students’ Chemical Literacy......Page 215
Robotics as a Vehicle for Multiliteracies......Page 238
Selected Readings......Page 259
Digital Literacy and Cultural Mediations to the Digital Divide......Page 260
Multi-Cultural E-Learning Teamwork: Social and Cultural Characteristics and Influence......Page 283
Compilation of References......Page 300
About the Contributors......Page 333
Index......Page 338
