From Designing to Organizing New Social Futures: Multiliteracies Pedagogies for Today

Abstract

More than 20 years ago, literacy pedagogies informed by the emerging networked world defined by local diversity and global connectedness, new digital media and fast capitalism. Modern people now fully inhabit the world they described, but the contours of that world’s racial dynamics and growing inequality call for a refinement of pedagogies that embrace a more activist metaphor than that of design. Our pedagogies of multiliteracies must now embrace the ‘organizing of social futures’ in ways that apprentice young people to repertoires of collective action, in which literacy becomes more fully a means of supporting community efforts to promote and bring about more just futures.     

多模态教学对多元识读能力的培养

指出传统的以语言为中心的单一模态的课堂教学已不能满足时代需求,现代英语阅读教学有必要培养学生的多模态识读能力;阅读教学的设计应根据语篇所传递的信息,以模态的最佳搭配为原则选择教学模态组合,使模态的选择更具可操作性。分析多模态语篇中的非文字符号,并探讨如何在多模态环境下根据各模态之间的相互协作关系优化课堂教学模态的选择和教学活动的设计。     

From Digital Consumption to Digital Invention: Toward a New Critical Theory and Practice of Multiliteracies

The teaching of media and digital literacies has gained increased attention in the 20 years following the New London Group’s landmark publication. From approaches urging the study of popular culture to calls for youth led social media revolution, there is no shortage of approaches. Yet scant attention is offered toward articulating a new and comprehensive theory of pedagogy and production that acknowledges the changing tools and technologies at young people’s disposal, conceptualizes young people as media producers, and applies these developments to today’s complex classroom context. We aim to articulate a new critical theory of multiliteracies that encompasses 4 types of digital engagement: (a) critical digital consumption, (b) critical digital production, (c) critical distribution, and (d) critical digital invention. We make the argument that a new critical theory of multiliteracies needs to account for each of these types of digital engagement but that, ultimately, we must move beyond theorizing our youth as passive consumers or even critical users of digital technologies toward the project of facilitating youth communities of digital innovation.     

多模态环境下大学生多元识读能力培养策略研究

在当今时代,科学技术迅猛发展,交流手段日益丰富,多模态的兴起挑战着语言在传统意义上的主导地位,对学生多元识读能力的培养也越来越受到教育界的关注。将多模态教学模式引入到大学英语教学中,有助于更好地实现以学生为中心的教学,在提升教学效果的同时,培养学生的多元识读能力,促进学生创新能力的发展和跨文化交际能力的提高。     

Back To the Basics

The supplementary school has been the mainstay of the American Jewish educational system for almost a full century. It continues to this day as the primary schooling instrument for the majority of Jewish children in America. The relative success of the supplementary school system through the decades can be discussed and debated. Today, however, it is generally conceded that in the last quarter of a century the effectiveness of the supplementary school and its ability to fulfill its goal of preparing children for adult Jewish life has been severely limited. The reality and the perception of inadequacy is manifest in drop-outs before high school, transfers to day schools, and the disenchantment that comes from the realization that most students are left without the critical mass of Jewish knowledge necessary to sustain them through adulthood.     

多元识读视域下的大学英语教学策略研究

阐述多元文化产生的社会文化背景,解读多元文化理论的内涵。在此基础上,指出多元识读能力作为多元识读理论的一种延伸,是现代多元信息社会对语言习得者提出的新要求,多元习得能力的培养成为大学英语教学的重要任务。分析当代大学生多元识读意识和能力的现状,并就大学英语教学提出一些策略。     

从一致走向差异 --新课程教学评价

新课程评价是课改中的重点和难点,强调差异性教学评价,尊重学生的个性差异,无疑有着重要的意义.     

文本的多模态化与多元识读能力研究

在视觉文化语境中,当前文本形式越来越倾向于声音、文字、图像等的结合,使得语言与其他形式符号相互依赖的程度逐渐增加。该文通过分析视觉文化对文本和儿童阅读的影响,以多模态话语分析理论为基础,研究文本的多模态化,强调阅读要注重在多模态语境下培养儿童多元识读能力。     

光的基础知识

光和我们的生活息息相关。没有光,我们看不到东西;万物也得不到生长。今天我们就告诉同学们一些和光有关的基础知识。     

新形势下计算机基础教学中的德育自然渗透法

德育是教育最高目的．计算机基础教学是高校基础课程。探讨计算机基础教学中的德育自然渗透．通过情景体验教学、实践课练习等达到知识与道德、教书与育人的统一。     

Multiliteracies in Practice: Integrating Multimodal Production Across the Curriculum

Supported by ever-evolving digital tools and online spaces, we argue that multiliteracies can be used to close the gap between teacher-directed, individual, and assessment-driven learning, and authentic, shared, and purpose-driven learning. This is particularly evident through multimodal composition and collaboration in primary classrooms. Over two decades ago, the New London Group argued that all meaning-making is multimodal. By representing their knowledge through multiple modes and for local and global audiences, students can express their identity, exercise agency, and foster a sense of authoring through multimodal production.     

Changing Literacies and Civic Pathways: Multiliteracies in Inquiry-Driven Classrooms

Reflecting on how “the very nature of language learning has changed”(New London Group [NLG], 1996, p. 64), this article describes an inquiry-driven teaching approach to middle school English. Looking at student outcomes utilizing Google’s 20% approach, this study explored how mentorship, digital tools, and student interests provide “opportunities [for students] to find their own voices” (NLG, 1996, p. 71). In particular, this article analyzes student inquiry based on the 4 pedagogical foundations of multiliteracies: situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, and transformed practice. By focusing on the voices and experiences of students, this framework highlights what multiliteracies can look like within classrooms. Ultimately, this study of literacies within inquiry-driven classrooms responds to the call of multiliteracies research from 20 years ago that, “Students need to develop the capacity to speak up, to negotiate, and to be able to engage critically with the conditions of their working lives” (New London Group, 1996, p. 67).     

Bridging Pedagogies: Drama,Multiliteracies, and the Zone of Proximal Development

This article examines how one educator embraced Vygotsky's concept of the zone of proximal development (ZPD) while using drama to scaffold learning about Dr. Seuss's The Lorax for first-grade students. This learning event is interpreted with reference to the ZPD and the New London Group's pedagogy of -multiliteracies. The author asserts the importance of considering both old and new pedagogical -theories when approaching present practice.     

多元读写能力研究及其对大学英语教学改革的启示简

在信息时代,传统的语言读写能力培养模式不再适应多模态的信息社会,不能满足人际交流方式和意义表达方式的需求.多元读写能力的培养作为时代的产物为广大教育者和研究者指明了方向.文章综合该理念20年来的研究,从理论框架到教学模式等方面对其进行解读,并结合我国实情提出对我国外语教学的启示.