Literacy & Multimodality
February 7, 2017
Using DV in our Classrooms?
Writing Prompt
Define digital/new literacy in your own words. You’ve read a lot about it, we’ve talked about. Now you write about it. Your own words, please.
Turn and Share�(Groups of 2-3)
Re-Writing Prompt
Take a few minutes and revise your definitions based on your conversations.
Large Group Share
Google Forms Demo/Break
Number Groups�(1-8)
Discuss
Miller & Bruce (2017) write:
“...what matters more than the DV tools is the stance teachers take with those tools.”
What is your stance to DV tools?
Large Group Share
Think
Takayoshi & Selfe (2007) write:
“In short, whether instructors teach written composition solely or multimodal composition, their job remains essentially the same: to teach students effective, rhetorically based strategies for taking advantage of all available means of communicating effectively and productively, to multiple audiences, for different purposes, and using a range of genres.”
Turn and Share�(Groups of 2-3)
Large Group Share
List
Write a list of everything you can possibly think of that would fall within the boundary of “multimodal composition”.
List
Write a list of everything you can possibly think of that would fall within the boundary of “multimodal composition”.
What would not fall into the category of “multimodal composition”?