Proliferation of New Communications Technologies

Spread of Multimodality

Meaning is Made in Multiple Ways

Home: Increasing

participation in online worlds

School:Rush to Adopt =“Makeover

Manner” & Digital Divide

Forms of Representation

1. Written Language

2. Oral Language

3. Visual Representation

4. Audio Representation

5. Tactile Representation

6. Gestural Representation

7. Spatial Representation

Role of Questions:

(Not Authoritative)

Metalanguage

Pathways for Divergence

Shift in Balance of Agency

Meaning Making is Active and Dynamic

Transformation vs. Reproduction

Design

End Goal: The WhatCompetent and Capable Users of Both Print and Digital Technologies

End Goal: The HowInstead of encouraging mastery of independent technology routines/software/tools, consider the bigger picture new digital technologies present.

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Impact of New Communicative Technology

Impact #2: Variability in Meaning-Making in Different Contexts

Parallel Aspects

Differing Affordances

End Goal: The WhyURGENCY!

Mode-Switching is a necessity in navigating today’s digital &

print world!

1. Available Designs

2. Designing

3. The Redesigned

Multiliteracies Theory

Realistic View of

Contemporary Society

Emancipatory View of

Possible Paths to

Improvement

Two Views of The Multiliteracies Pedagogy

Multiliteracies Schema

Teacher Factors that Impact Literacy

Pedagogy: EngagementDisposition

CollaborationReflection

Professional Development

Goal-Focus

Experiencing Conceptualizing

ApplyingAnalyzing

4 Dimensions of Pedagogy

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Characteristics of Multiliteracies Pedagogy:1. Rebalancing of Agency2. Different Modalities in Meaning Making3. Divergent Learning Opportunities4. Alternative Forms of Engagement

Learning Goal

#1

Written Language

Oral Language

Spatial Representation

Gestural Representation

Visual Representation

Audio Representation

Tactile Representation

Meaning-Making Modes

Representational Meaning

5 Dimensions of Meaning-

Making

Social Meaning

Organizational Meaning

Ideological Meaning

Contextual Meaning

Student draws on existing

representations

Student designs something new

Another student uses the new

representation to design something

new

The Process Continues

Multiliteracies Pedagogy

Work Cited:

Kalantzis, M., Cope, B., & Cloonan, A. (2010). A Multiliteracies Perspective on the New Literacies. In Baker, E. (Ed.), The new literacies: Multiple perspectives on research and practice (41-60). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.