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Multiliteracies and Designing Learning Futures
Multiliteracies is an area of interest for me and my classroom, and I am hoping to use this post for dialogue and collective theory-building. But first, I want to talk briefly about being a book geek. As an English teacher, I am passionate about literature. During my first two years in the classroom I overextended myself by maintaining an evening and weekend job assistant managing a popular independent bookstore in Los Angeles.… more
Digital Illiteracy
Besides being a Pulitzer Prize winning film critic, Roger Ebert is a serious reader, and in a recent post on his blog, he blasts a "retelling" of The Great Gatsby that dumbs down the prose of the original novel for "intermediate level readers," thereby robbing them of the full experience of the novel's literary richness. After providing a few comparisons between the original and the new version, Ebert made a claim that jumped out at me:… more
What do new Social Networks tell us about Digital Literacies?
The recent launch of Google+, a new social network, has caused ripples in many different online spaces. From talk of it being a ‘Facebook killer’ because of its enhanced privacy settings to discussion of who one should place in the various ‘Circles’ available to users, the focus has been on technical aspects of the new service. What interests me, however, is how using the lens of digital literacies can cast light on practices and interactions in these spheres.… more