This document discusses the concept of multiliteracies and its importance for teaching English. It defines multiliteracies as involving a multiplicity of discourses, being influenced by new technologies and multimedia, and incorporating different representational forms like visual design. Research shows literacy is not singular but takes multiple forms based on one's environment and culture. This shift means teaching English must include situated practice with new literacies, overt instruction on interpreting various meanings, and applying understandings to different contexts. Incorporating popular culture and media can develop important cognitive skills. Teaching multiliteracies requires openness to changing literacies and social relations in digital spaces.
Being Human Today: Transcontental Border Crossing in the Times of Facebook an...Daniela Gachago
Presentation at the Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Education conference, 31st August - 3rd of September 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
Being Human Today: Transcontental Border Crossing in the Times of Facebook an...Daniela Gachago
Presentation at the Emerging Technologies and Authentic Learning in Vocational Education conference, 31st August - 3rd of September 2015, Cape Town, South Africa
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Using Social Network Sites and Mobile Technology to Scaffold Equity of Access to Cultural Resources
Zimbabwe has for a long time been characterised by varied and skewed levels of literacy across her regions. This scenario has left some regions more advantaged and developed than others. Binga District in Matabeleland North, mainly habited by the Tonga speaking people has been one such community where underdevelopment has been tied to the low levels of literacy. It is in this light that this study therefore aimed to investigate the role of Tonga Language and Culture Committee (TOLACCO), Roman Catholic and Community leadership in the promotion of literacy in Binga Community of Zimbabwe. Data was collected from the TOLACCO, Roman Catholic Parishioners, District Administrator, Councillors and the community leaders who included two Chiefs and their Headman. Structured interview schedule and questionnaire were used in data collection. The results revealed that low literacy level tied to the cultural beliefs of the baTonga people has hindered human resources and infrastructure development within Binga. One Chief bemoaned the situation where pupils at primary school were being taught not in their mother language and some teachers from outside the region predominantly Ndebele and Shona speaking were not interested in learning the Tonga language. There is urgent need to upscale the production of teaching and learning material in Chitonga at both primary and secondary school levels. The results amplified the need for a multi-stakeholder approach in the promotion of high literacy levels in community development.
Story People - Experiments With Truth, is a compilation of art work and sayings that I created for a project in a course at the University of Calgary with Dr. Jeff Jacobs. Reflections based on the works of Byron Katie's "Loving What Is,", and Terry Warner's, "Bonds That Make Us Free."
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Using Social Network Sites and Mobile Technology to Scaffold Equity of Access to Cultural Resources
Zimbabwe has for a long time been characterised by varied and skewed levels of literacy across her regions. This scenario has left some regions more advantaged and developed than others. Binga District in Matabeleland North, mainly habited by the Tonga speaking people has been one such community where underdevelopment has been tied to the low levels of literacy. It is in this light that this study therefore aimed to investigate the role of Tonga Language and Culture Committee (TOLACCO), Roman Catholic and Community leadership in the promotion of literacy in Binga Community of Zimbabwe. Data was collected from the TOLACCO, Roman Catholic Parishioners, District Administrator, Councillors and the community leaders who included two Chiefs and their Headman. Structured interview schedule and questionnaire were used in data collection. The results revealed that low literacy level tied to the cultural beliefs of the baTonga people has hindered human resources and infrastructure development within Binga. One Chief bemoaned the situation where pupils at primary school were being taught not in their mother language and some teachers from outside the region predominantly Ndebele and Shona speaking were not interested in learning the Tonga language. There is urgent need to upscale the production of teaching and learning material in Chitonga at both primary and secondary school levels. The results amplified the need for a multi-stakeholder approach in the promotion of high literacy levels in community development.
Story People - Experiments With Truth, is a compilation of art work and sayings that I created for a project in a course at the University of Calgary with Dr. Jeff Jacobs. Reflections based on the works of Byron Katie's "Loving What Is,", and Terry Warner's, "Bonds That Make Us Free."
This talk introduced staff at University College Borås to an approach for teaching social media literacies that I was piloting with a group at the IT Technics University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Shall We Play? is written by Erin Reilly, Henry Jenkins, Laurel Felt and Vanessa Vartabedian. It represents a revisiting of Henry Jenkins' original MacArthur white paper, Confronting the Challenges of a Participatory Culture, and lays out what we see as core principles for participatory learning. It includes some core reflections on what has happened in the Digital Media and Learning movement over the past six years as we have sought to bring a more participatory spirit to those institutions and practices that most directly touch young people’s lives.
A summary from Chapter 2, Barton's Book.
Barton, David. (1994). Literacy – An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Blackwell Publisher: Massachusetts.
El pensamiento liberador basado en las propuestas de Paulo Freire, Simón Rodríguez y Prieto Figueroa en el marco del plan de la patria. Propone una educación que crítica, constructivista en la formación del dominio de una lengua extranjera (este caso el inglés), valorando los aspectos inherentes socio-culturales de toda lengua y adaptarlos a las presentes necesidades educativa como lo es el aprendizaje mixto, a distancia y el virtual interactivo.
Learning through Affinity Spaces: Exploring the role of media education in the 24/7 digital era
This slide was designed to be viewed alongside live presenters discussing the role of 'Media Education', which was conducted in a closed session on 2 December. We focused on the problems with relying on the utopian idea of learning through 'affinity spaces' (a concept outlined by James P. Gee) for future education, and our expectations for its development.
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
Acolyte Episodes review (TV series) The Acolyte. Learn about the influence of the program on the Star Wars world, as well as new characters and story twists.
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
2. Literacy is about more than reading or writing – it is about how we communicate in society. It is about social practices and relationships, about knowledge, language and culture. Those who use literacy take it for granted – but those who cannot use it are excluded from much communication in today’s world. Indeed, it is the excluded who can best appreciate the notion of “literacy as freedom”. (UNESCO, Statement for the United Nations Literacy Decade, 2003–2012, page 3, The Ontario Curriculum, English Grades 9 and 10)
3. Multiliteracies -Coined by the New London Group (1996) Because the way people communicate is changing due to new technologies, and shifts in the usage of the English language within different cultures, a new understanding of literacy must also be used and developed.
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6. Take this story for instance . . . Justin Bieber And of course YouTube
7. Some ideas for educators to ponder . . . What Does it all Mean?
8. A book is a technology too. Yes, a book. It’s not just digital though…
9. Remediation and Anxiety Bolter and Grusin in 1999 wrote about how new media refashions prior media forms with a goal to improve upon the old while proclaiming itself a new medium. E.g. scroll to book; book to e-literature, etc. Anxiety is created though as we fear what is being lost and what we don’t understand about the new.
12. Research Roots The first discussions focused on “New Literacies” “New Literacy’s proposal is to reshape the work of the classroom around a different form of reading and writing. The moral, psychological, and social worth of this literacy begins with students as sources of experience and meaning.” John Willinsky
13. James Gee talked about New Literacy Studies He (and other theorists) explained that literacy is not a singular construct, but rather, individuals maintain multiple literacies relative to their environment (both physical and social). Gee introduced the term “big D” Discourse, by which he mean the social, cultural and historical practices that impact systems of literacy.
14. Multiliteracies New London Group is a collective of literacy researchers from Australia, Great Britain and the USA. They argued that literacy includes A multiplicity of discourses Is influenced by information and multimedia technologies And that different representational forms are increasingly significant. E.g. visual design
15. They noted that As soon as our sights are set on the objective of creating the learning conditions for full social participation, the issue of differences becomes critically important. How do we ensure that differences of culture, language, and gender are not barriers to educational success? And what are the implications of these differences for literacy pedagogy?
16. Teaching Multiliteracies Situated effortful, meaningful practice Overt instruction that introduces metalanguage to describe and interpret. Critical framing to interpret the social and cultural context of particular designs of meaning. Transformed practice, which puts meaning to work in other contexts.
17. What about media and popular culture? Author Steven Johnson calls into question some of the commonsense theories of new media. “The student of media soon comes to expect the new media of any period whatever to be classed as pseudo by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.” -Marshall McLuhan
18. Some of Johnson’s Findings By almost all the standards we use to measure reading’s cognitive benefits—attention, memory, following threads, and so on—the nonliterary popular culture has been steadily growing more challenging over the past thirty years. Increasingly, the nonliterary popular culture is honing different mental skills that are just as important as ones exercised by reading books.
19. It’s not what you’re thinking about when you’re playing a game, it’s the way you’re thinking that matters. John Dewey: “Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only that particular thing he is studying at the time. Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or the lesson in geography or history that is learned.”
21. James Paul Gee, 2003 What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy 36 Learning Principles e.g. Identity Principle—Learning involves taking on and playing with identities in such a way that the learner has real choices (in developing the virtual identity) and ample opportunity to meditate on the relationship between new identities and old ones. There is a tripartite play of identities as learners relate, and reflect on, their multiple real-world identities, a virtual identity, and a projective identity.
22. Margaret Mackey, U of A, Edmonton Using an “asset model” that suggests a more constructive approach to exploring the impact of new technologies on students’ literacy practices, we are working on the assumption that engaging in reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing and representing with new media “can work as a benefit to literacy instead of as a social deficit.”
24. Mindsets: Lankshear and Knobel Mindset One The world operates on physical and industrial principles and logics. Value is a function of scarcity. The individual person is the unit of production, competence and intelligence Mindset Two The world increasingly operates on nonmaterial and post-industrial principles and logics. Value is a function of dispersion. The focus is on collectives.
25. Mindsets: Lankshear and Knobel Mindset One Expertise and authority are “located” in institutions and persons. Space is enclosed and purpose specific. Social relations of “bookspace” prevails; a stable “textual order”. Mindset Two Expertise and authority are distributed and collective. Space is open, continuous, fluid. Social relations of emerging “digital media space” are increasingly visible; texts chance