William Cope
Jayrome Nuñez
Jennifer Langkjaer
Petra Åslund
Barbara Cooper-GreenLiteracy Teaching and Learning MOOC’s Updates
Section 1a: Introduction
Welcome to this Literacies Learning Module. Using Scholar, we prompt a number of different kinds of interaction between course participants, all of which use digital media and collaborative writing processes. Our Scholar medium is our Multiliteracies message!
So, what is 'Multiliteracies'? This term captures two aspects of meaning making in the era of our contemporary communications environment, two kinds of 'multi', if you like. The first is the multimodality of contemporary meaning making in which text, image, sound and other media are used together and the same time to make meaning. Just look at a social media activity feed, and Scholar's activity stream, and you will see this mutlimodality at work. The second is the multiplicity of different ways of meaning. Once, literacy was just about correct spelling and grammar, as if there was one best and correct way to communicate. Now, we explore literacies in the plural. A social media post is different from a report on a science experiment, is different from a personal opinion blogpost, is different from an email, is different from a text message. Literacies are about creating a message that is right for the context and medium, and contexts and media are always different.
Scholar is a web discussion and writing environment that supports multimodal literacies. As well as text, your 'writing' in Scholar can include images, videos, audio, dataset, and even embedded web media—which means that you can do traditional literacy here, and also broaden out your meaning-making to create multimodal communications. Scholar is also very social. In this Learning Module, you will be discussing literacies issues and topics with your peers in the Community Area of Scholar. You will be taking surveys. You will also be creating multimodal works in the Creator area of Scholar, peer reviewing each others works, then revising for submission to your community admin, and publication to your personal portfolio page in Community. You will not only be exploring the subject of literacies. In the spirit of our time, this will itself be a very multimodal and very social experience of literacies.
Comment: Discuss the ways in which literacy is changing, and why the word 'literacies' might be more appropriate today. Read over each others' comments as they come through in the comments area and respond to each other's thoughts by mentiong the other person, @ Their Name.
Per Cope, the shift in how individuals produce knowledge as much as they consume knowledge invites the question of the importance of high-quality curriculum materials and learning modality in tandem. If a student is exposed only to readings and media that tell and inform, but do not invite active participation then there is no advancement or progress. Cope states that learners who interact with social media are producers of content as much as they are consumers. This needs to be reflected in the educational system. There are many situations in which technology is being used for passive learning and not for active participation. When young learners are taking information in through digital platforms, is it true learning? What was stressed in the video on new technologies is the need to replicate the same impetus for interaction with social media in a more dynamic way in the classroom. Some examples might be to work in collaborative groups evaluating a document or illustration produced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) or to have students experience writing a good prompt for AI.
A non-example is to have students sitting on laptops and writing individual reports and turning it in to the teacher or to have students using iPADs to simply respond to questions in workbook style.
Per Cope, the shift in how individuals produce knowledge as much as they consume knowledge invites the question of the importance of high-quality curriculum materials and learning modality in tandem. If a student is exposed only to readings and media that tell and inform, but do not invite active participation then there is no advancement or progress. Cope states that learners who interact with social media are producers of content as much as they are consumers. This needs to be reflected in the educational system. There are many situations in which technology is being used for passive learning and not for active participation. When young learners are taking information in through digital platforms, is it true learning? What was stressed in the video on new technologies is the need to replicate the same impetus for interaction with social media in a more dynamic way in the classroom. Some examples might be to work in collaborative groups evaluating a document or illustration produced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) or to have students experience writing a good prompt for AI.
A non-example is to have students sitting on laptops and writing individual reports and turning it in to the teacher or to have students using iPADs to simply respond to questions in workbook style.
Per Cope, the shift in how individuals produce knowledge as much as they consume knowledge invites the question of the importance of high-quality curriculum materials and learning modality in tandem. If a student is exposed only to readings and media that tell and inform, but do not invite active participation then there is no advancement or progress. Cope states that learners who interact with social media are producers of content as much as they are consumers. This needs to be reflected in the educational system. There are many situations in which technology is being used for passive learning and not for active participation. When young learners are taking information in through digital platforms, is it true learning? What was stressed in the video on new technologies is the need to replicate the same impetus for interaction with social media in a more dynamic way in the classroom. Some examples might be to work in collaborative groups evaluating a document or illustration produced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) or to have students experience writing a good prompt for AI.
A non-example is to have students sitting on laptops and writing individual reports and turning it in to the teacher or to have students using iPADs to simply respond to questions in workbook style.
Per Cope, the shift in how individuals produce knowledge as much as they consume knowledge invites the question of the importance of high-quality curriculum materials and learning modality in tandem. If a student is exposed only to readings and media that tell and inform, but do not invite active participation then there is no advancement or progress. Cope states that learners who interact with social media are producers of content as much as they are consumers. This needs to be reflected in the educational system. There are many situations in which technology is being used for passive learning and not for active participation. When young learners are taking information in through digital platforms, is it true learning? What was stressed in the video on new technologies is the need to replicate the same impetus for interaction with social media in a more dynamic way in the classroom. Some examples might be to work in collaborative groups evaluating a document or illustration produced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) or to have students experience writing a good prompt for AI.
A non-example is to have students sitting on laptops and writing individual reports and turning it in to the teacher or to have students using iPADs to simply respond to questions in workbook style.
Per Cope, the shift in how individuals produce knowledge as much as they consume knowledge invites the question of the importance of high-quality curriculum materials and learning modality in tandem. If a student is exposed only to readings and media that tell and inform, but do not invite active participation then there is no advancement or progress. Cope states that learners who interact with social media are producers of content as much as they are consumers. This needs to be reflected in the educational system. There are many situations in which technology is being used for passive learning and not for active participation. When young learners are taking information in through digital platforms, is it true learning? What was stressed in the video on new technologies is the need to replicate the same impetus for interaction with social media in a more dynamic way in the classroom. Some examples might be to work in collaborative groups evaluating a document or illustration produced by AI (Artificial Intelligence) or to have students experience writing a good prompt for AI.
A non-example is to have students sitting on laptops and writing individual reports and turning it in to the teacher or to have students using iPADs to simply respond to questions in workbook style.
Traditionally, literacy meant reading and writing, but today it's more complex. 'Literacies' now encompasses digital, media, information, visual, cultural, numeracy, health, financial, and environmental skills. These are crucial in our interconnected world. 'Literacies' acknowledges this broad range of abilities needed to thrive in the 21st century.
In our world where development is a never ending cycle that keeps creating and improving old information into something new. I totally agree with the concept of literacy that it involves reading and writing. One of its examples that humans always use is the language. In the video, the word innate was subjected to how we speak. Which is true, because as human beings we are innate to speak that learned through our community as we develop and improve our foundation of understanding.
Modern Era
Living in this modern world where technology is seen everywhere, attention is all in the media, and individuals are more focused on their mobile phones, we can see that technology has really become a part of our lives. Technology has been one of the coping mechanisms to relieve stress, to find information, to connect with other people and other benefits that can give by the media. But, despite these advantages, there are also negative effects of using technology such as people believing everything posted online without evidence, becoming a way to destroy someone's credibility and so much more. Which is why honing the skills and knowledge of individuals about using technology and behaving on social media is a must for them to know how to act in a certain situation.
One of the practices that should be honed in using media is to build a positive reputation. Individuals should know that everything they post on social media will be seen by the people on it, which is why thinking before you post is a must. Also to practice being cautious on social networking sites. As individuals, it is important to not click on unfamiliar sites because it might bring harmful effects on your software, it is much safer if you check first the validity of sites or ask the person who sent it to you.
These practices can be learned through literacies as it provides as enough skills and knowledge of communicating clearly and effectively as well as a foundational knowledge about the modern world. Learning this will help individuals on how to correctly read concepts and teach them as well how to use these in online platforms. Learning literacy also contributes to our overall growth as it assists us to develop mentally, emotionally and cognitively.
The account of historical development of language and its engagement dynamism remains germane for setting the bedrock for the understanding of diverse and globalized nuance of linguistic realities. As new media comes to stay, negotiated meanings will continue to create complex cultural and interpretative symbols and meanings within social groups.
I consider that as technology evolves and the ways we comunicate changes, we need to know how its affect us and more specific how language changes so if we are teachers or languages students, we have to discover better ways to teach and learn languages because nowadays the world are hyperconected no matther what languages is spoken