Multimodal Times covers topics which demonstrate how ICT's have influenced, shaped and transformed social and literate practices. It identifies some issues arising from these changes and the critical effects on literacy education. Topics are chosen to reflect how multi-modal texts differ from print-based texts. Multimodal Times draws conclusions about appropriate content and pedagogy for literacy learning and acknowledges the impact of ICT's on social and literate practices.
(The following stories and examples of multimodal texts are submitted as assessment items for Assignment 2.)
This technological timeline reflects changes in economic, social and educational practices during my lifetime. With each new generation, new learning environments emerge. New ICT (Information communication technology) are being unveiled and any or all can have significant impacts on education.
Technology has changed our interaction with text. No longer is text a selection of words on [...]
Our school staff meeting held 29th January 2009, focussed on “Improving literacy”. Our literacy expert’s powerpoint detailed some excellent strategies to improve basic literacy skills. The presentation dealt predominantly with paper-based resources and literature.
I found this meeting interesting following my inspiring studies of EDU8415. At no time did staff members recognise the significance of the [...]
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A blog is a blend of the words web-log. A type of Web 2.0 software that lets anyone publish information on the Internet. It’s a journal, a newspaper, a way to publish ideas, arguments and thoughts very quickly, without advanced technical skills [...]
I’m Jan Clewett. I teach Business and Information Technology at Oakey State High School, 20mins west of Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. I am also studying my Masters in Education Technology at the University of Southern Queensland. This webpage has been designed for EDU8415 Multimodal text and new literacies. As an “IT junky” I have found the course challenging. Many times I have thought “I am not a SOSE teacher!”. However as a teacher I have a responsibility to teach literacy in all its forms. The research I have been reading over the last few months has “transformed” my learning - yet again! That is why I just love being a “life-long” learner.