multiliteracies and multimodal texts By Courtney pobar

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  1. multi literacy is in the early years. Classroom By Courtney Poe BAR
  2. We live in an age where technology is readily available at any moment in time.
  3. We use technology to communicate and connect with each other
  4. to find out the latest news to play games,
  5. be creative or even to relax.
  6. Even our world leaders are using technology to tweet their latest announcement
  7. on Twitter or share photos of their current engagements on Instagram.
  8. Not only our technology is more available, but they are more affordable,
  9. reliable and efficient.
  10. However, despite these advances,
  11. many educators continue to feel uncertain about
  12. incorporating technologies into the early years.
  13. Education?
  14. Mhm.
  15. So what is 21st century literacy and what does it mean?
  16. Heston in 2000 and nine states that to be literate in the 21st century,
  17. students need to be able to read their digital world.
  18. That means being able to read the world and its global meanings and messages.
  19. This requires skills beyond those of simply
  20. reading the word of standardised English.
  21. Most of us grew up believing that literacy means reading and writing,
  22. or perhaps communication.
  23. But it's not that simple, especially in the 21st century
  24. while reading and writing a technological modes of communication.
  25. They are not the only modes of communication and nor
  26. do they express the purpose or meaning of literacy.
  27. What are multi literacy ease?
  28. In 1996 a group of literacy specialists named New London
  29. Group advocated for a new approach to literacy pedagogy.
  30. The group developed a pedagogical frank approach and
  31. proposed the term multi literacy ease to broaden the
  32. print based and mono cultural approaches that at the
  33. time flooded the teaching of literacy and language.
  34. Multi literacy. These targets meaning
  35. being made by using multi modality.
  36. This means the written modes of meaning are integrated with visual, oral,
  37. gestural and spatial patterns of meaning.
  38. But we'll hear more about multi modality later in this presentation.
  39. So what is the multi literacy framework?
  40. The New London Group identified four dimensions of literacy pedagogy.
  41. They were situated practise over instruction,
  42. critical framing and transformed practise.
  43. Over the last decade,
  44. these dimensions have been translated into experiencing conceptualising,
  45. analysing and applying
  46. collapses.
  47. Um cope have drawn on eight knowledge processes
  48. that aim to inform meaning making pedagogy,
  49. which has been re conceptualised as learning by design.
  50. Within the experiencing section of the framework students can
  51. reflect on the known thinking about familiar experiences,
  52. interests and perspectives.
  53. The new gives learners the opportunity to observe
  54. or take part in something that is unfamiliar.
  55. They are immersed in new situations or contents.
  56. Within the applying stage,
  57. learners appropriately apply new learning to real world situations
  58. and creatively make an intervention in the world,
  59. which is innovative and creative.
  60. In the next section,
  61. students conceptualised by naming and grouping things into categories,
  62. applying classifying terms and define these terms.
  63. Within theory, students make generalist generalisations using concepts
  64. and finally, within the analysing stage, students analyse logical connections,
  65. cause and effect structure and functions.
  66. They critically evaluate their own and other people's perspectives.
  67. We know that the world is ever changing and understanding how to
  68. communicate in the digital world is crucial for our early years students.
  69. Over the last two decades, there has slowly been a shift in this understanding,
  70. but it is critical that literacy education moves
  71. beyond the traditional forms of written language.
  72. Multi literacy is a process of transformation
  73. rather than a process of reproduction.
  74. This means that our students have agency in the meaning making process,
  75. thus creating a more productive, relevant, innovative and creative pedagogy.
  76. Multi literacy is lends itself to students becoming active designers of meaning,
  77. becoming more aware of differences, change and innovation.
  78. So how can we engage our youngest students in multi in a multi literacy is approach.
  79. One clear answer
  80. is the implementation of multimodal texts.
  81. There has been much research about multi modality,
  82. and the early stages of this research focused closely on text and images,
  83. and this still remains.
  84. Today, however, the research has grown, and it includes space, colour,
  85. music and so much more
  86. modes are used to make an express, meaning
  87. they can be made up of language, gesture, image, sound and space.
  88. Popular digital platforms use a variety of modes for users to communicate.
  89. Instagram, for example, uses photos, videos,
  90. texts and music to share and communicate between users.
  91. Multi modality is any form of communication that
  92. employs more than one medium to express meaning.
  93. Movies, for example, include modality by using voice, music, gesture and space.
  94. All of these modes together express meaning intent
  95. and convey the main message to viewers.
  96. But how can we teach multi literacy?
  97. Is it enough just to incorporate computers into my lessons?
  98. incorporating multi literacy is in the early years Literacy programme.
  99. Using multimodal text is more than just using computers and iPads.
  100. Simple multimodal texts can include comics, graphic novels, picture books,
  101. newspapers,
  102. brochures, posters,
  103. digital presentations and social media.
  104. Meaning is conveyed to the reader
  105. through varying combinations of written language,
  106. visual, gestural and spatial modes.
  107. Additionally, podcasts are also simple to produce,
  108. involving combinations of spoken language and audio modes.
  109. Live multimodal texts are also an excellent way to include
  110. multi literacy is in the early years classroom live.
  111. Multimodal texts can include dance performance,
  112. oral storytelling and presentations.
  113. Through this,
  114. meaning is conveyed through combinations of various modes
  115. such as gestural spatial audio and oral language.
  116. There are so many ways to include multimodal texts in an early years classroom.
  117. The key is to think beyond pencil and paper.
  118. If you do this, the sky is the limit for our youngest learners.