Your comment is spot on in highlighting the evolving nature of literacy in today's world. It's true that while traditional literacy—reading and writing—remains fundamental, the concept of literacies has expanded to include various specialized...More

One concept that I find useful when it comes to technology and learning is the accessibility to microlearning. Anyone is able to learn from anywhere. Don't get me wrong, just because you see it on the internet does not mean that it is true...More

I've always thought it was important to get learners of any age to look "beyond the words" of what they were reading. People who are learning English as a second language (or anybody who is learning a second language) might have a tendency to want...More

Hi Shraddha! I agree with your thinking about human isolation and not having help from anyone else. When humans work together, they are able to create new things. This is where language comes from. If someone is able to pass down a language,...More

Writing is definitely the most prominent way that society can keep in contact with other people. Writing can be formal in some settings, and it can be informal when communicating between friends. It is fascinating to see how cursive came to be...More

Almost like any other new concept, society needed to accept writing. In the early days of writing in symbols like Sumerian cuneiform, different cultures have borrowed and adapted parts of language to create their own. Humans in those cultures...More

Traditional writing, which is didactic literacy pedagogy, involves product-based writing (Kalantzis & Cope, 2016-A; Kalantzis & Cope). The products that the students produce are copies of earlier teacher-modelled pieces, often through rote learning...More

I agree that a hybrid- didactic pedagogy with other forms of constructivist pedagogy- helps create a more enriching ecology for students to learn.

There is a plethora of digital tools in contemporary times that use multimodal literacies for educational purposes. BrainPOP is an educational website that provides instructions in Literacy, Math, Science and Social Studies using animated videos,...More