EDUC 3610 Chapter --: Oct 21 - Pedagogies & Literacies as Social Action
29 Nov 2016
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Class 7: oct 21 - pedagogies & literacies as social action. Smythe, s. , toohey, k. , & dagenais, d. (2014). The promise of 21st century learning is that digital technologies will transform traditional learning and mobilize skills deemed necessary in an emerging digital culture. Learners come to understand written language (and perhaps multimodal literacies of image, sound, gesture, movement) when they have some sense of the functional work the social ends of literacy. Meanings are made in ways that are increasingly multimodal, in which writ- ten-linguistic modes of meaning making interface with oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile and spatial patterns of meaning . Digital technologies, and video making in particular, are contexts for the cultivation and valuing of multimodal literacies and new forms of meaning making and expression so important in peoples" everyday lives. Meanwhile, people viewed as more educated or skilled, and those with the material means, are more likely to have sustained access to digital tools for production.
