Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11660
Title: The Written Word is Not Enough! Harnessing Adolescents' Multimodal Literacy Practices in the ELA Classroom
Contributor(s): Clary, Deidre  (author); Oglan, Vic (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11660
Abstract: Today's world presents English educators with an interesting intersection of technology and literacy that has the potential to inform and transform our classroom practice. Consider this: In today's world, a literate person must be able to read and create a range of paper based and online texts (newspapers, pamphlets, websites, books, Kindle, and so on), participate in and create virtual settings (classrooms, Second Life, Facebook, Elluminate, blogs, wikis) that use interactive and dynamic Web 2.0 tools and critically analyze multimodal texts that integrate visual, musical, dramatic, digital, and new literacies. (Albers, 2007; Doering, Beach, & O'Brien, 2007; Harste, Leland, Grant, Chung, & Enyeart, 2007; Miller 2007). Within this increasingly socially networked and textually mediated world of cultural differences and rapidly changing communication media, we are reminded constantly of the changing nature of literacy pedagogy and our meanings for literacy. As multimodal practices become intrinsic to our literacy practices, the function of traditional literacy pedagogy focused merely on language alone is seemingly being eclipsed by multiliteracies and multimodalities, inherent modes of representation that are much broader than language only, and differ according to culture and context, and specific cognitive, cultural and social effects (Cope & Kalantzis, 2000).
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: South Carolina English Teacher (Fall 2011), p. 24-30
Publisher: South Carolina Council of Teachers of English
Place of Publication: United States of America
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130106 Secondary Education
130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930203 Teaching and Instruction Technologies
930201 Pedagogy
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Publisher/associated links: http://www.sccte.org/assets/78/21465%20ITE%20SCET.pdf
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