EDUC 3610 Chapter --: Sept 23 - ‘The New Basics’- Putting Multimodality to work for Learning
29 Nov 2016
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Class 3: september 23, 2016: the new basics": putting multimodality to work for learning. Teaching multimodal and digital literacy in l2 settings: Digital technologies enable modes to be configured, be circulated, and get recycled in different ways , thus intensifying multimodal possibilities. The affordances of new media have revolutionized social literacy practices: new orthographic and discourse conventions are proliferating, authorship is moving from individual construction to collaborative remix, and genres such as games have become canvasses for complex literacy practices. Lotherington (2010) proposed the idea of two-dimensional (2d) literacies to metaphorically capture the static, linear, paper-based reading and writing agendas of school language and literacy curricula and assessment. Reducing l2 learning to the flat literacies of paper-based resources in the classroom raises questions of authenticity in l2 learning. If teachers are to meaningfully engage l2 learners in communication as it exists in the social world, these brave new dimensions of literacy must be woven into classroom learning.
