Defining Multiliteracies or Literacy 3.

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EDTC 5631 Literacies and Technology
Dr. Basiyr D. Rodney Associate Professor Educational Technology Webster University Saint Louis, MO August 25, 2013

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At the end of this presentation, you should be able to: 1. Define Multiliteracies 2. Define Literacy 3.0 3. Explain how multiliteracies came about 4. Describe the what of multiliteracies 5. Describe the why of multiliteracies 6. Describe the NLG model of multiliteracies 7. Provide an example of how multiliteracies link to a digital age device

Literacy Evolution
Literacy 1.0
Dominant Language Reading Writing Basic Numeracy TEXT/PRINT BASED

Literacy 2.0
Subject Matter & Culture Science Mathematics Citizenship Other native languages TEXT/PRINT BASED

Literacy 3.0
All literacies value Decoding text (reading) Subject Knowledge Language Proficiency Meaning Making Multimodal Dominant & Other LanguagesMULTIMEDIA

Literacy 3.0: Beyond Reading

Multiliteracies is concerned with: 1. Decoding text in dominant as well as other languages 2. Making meaning by interpreting messages from different forms of media (Multimedia)
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Text, Audio, Video, Visuals, Manipulatives and People are all forms of media

3. Understanding process skills and competencies for a digital-age economy 4. Understanding varied forms of literacy that empower an individual for learning and work

The What of Multiliteracies

More than text, reading and language

Understanding Multimedia Texts

Multimedia Elements of Meaning

Multimodal Elements of Design

Image from A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures. Harvard Educational Review, New London Group, 1996.

Multimedia Texts
Touch Screen Hand movements Gestural

Modern Devices embody the New London Group Frame of Multiliteracies Multiple Modes of Meaning Making A Smartphone for example facilitates multimedia Talk messages as well as Music multimodal design.
Record

Graphics Video Camera Visual

Audio

Linguistic Multi-lingual Keyboard Text Messaging

Spatial GPS Compass

Todays Texts
Todays texts often serve to present the author to the digital world and may be collaboratively composed and edited; they are frequently multimodal, integrating words, graphics, sound, and video (Mabrito & Medley, 2008).

In a multiliteracies world...
Written meanings are closely connected with visual, spatial, tactile, gestural, audio and oral modes of meaning. Navigating contemporary social spaces requires the application of not just one set of rules for meaning-making (literacy in the singular), but the negotiation of different literacies depending on the people and contexts you encounter. There are, in other words, many literacies and these vary according to cultural context, social purpose, life experience, personal interest, knowledge base and so on. (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012, Online)

Literacy 3.0: Beyond Reading

The New London Group (New London Connecticut) Met in 1996. Many experts on reading, literacy, digital society. English was becoming a world language, it was also diverging into multiple Englishes. Whereas traditional literacy curriculum taught to a singular standard (grammar, the literary canon, standard national forms of the language), the everyday experience of meaning making was increasingly one of negotiating discourse differences (Cope & Kalantzis, 2009, pp.2-3).

The Why of Multiliteracies

Era 1 (Literacy 1.0) Era 2 (Literacy 2.0) Era 3 (Literacy 3.0)

Economy

Pre-Industrial Rigid Hierarchical

Industrial Rigid Hierarchical

Knowledge based Horizontal Layers and Teams

Work

Top Down Deskilled Division of Labor

Reading, Writing Arithmetic Designed for Compliance Maintained the prevailing order

Top Down Deskilled Division of Labor

Reading, Writing Arithmetic Some deference for multilingualism

Horizontal Multi-skilled flexible Knowledge Focus

Self-directed learning The knowledge worker or learning organization Accumulation of intellectual capital Change towards new profit making structures

Learning

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Review this slideshow as often as you wish. You should now be able to:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Define Multiliteracies Define Literacy 3.0 Explain how multiliteracies came about Describe the what of multiliteracies Describe the why of multiliteracies Describe the NLG model of multiliteracies Provide an example of how multiliteracies link to a digital age device