Exploring the socio-material perspective, this book offers an alternative analysis of literacy in the realm of digital communication. It serves as essential reading for advanced students and researchers focusing on literacy and digital media across fields such as Education, Applied Linguistics, and Media/Communication studies.
In the last five years, Web 2.0 applications – vast virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, social networking, and file sharing among them – have inspired new notions of what it might mean to be literate in the twenty-first century. While previous scholarship on Web 2.0 has focused on its social and recreational uses, this book explores its ability to enrich and transform the educational experience of children and young people. It discusses the opportunities and risks presented by this large-scale shift in popular engagement with new media, and uses illustrative vignettes to document the work of innovative educators who construct new ways of thinking and being around Web 2.0.
Focusing on the educational implications of Web 2.0 applications, this book examines how these technologies can enhance literacy for children and young people. It moves beyond previous research that emphasized social and recreational aspects, highlighting both the opportunities and risks associated with this digital shift. Through illustrative vignettes, it showcases innovative educators who are creating new pedagogical approaches and fostering transformative learning experiences in the context of new media engagement.
The Subject Leader's Handbook
Focusing on the management and procedures of language and literacy teaching, this guide provides practical advice for primary school English subject leaders, starting from job applications. It thoroughly addresses current educational demands, referencing the National Literacy Project's Framework. The content is enriched with anecdotal evidence and real-life documentation examples used in schools. Notably, it emphasizes the importance of conferencing techniques for reading and writing as essential everyday strategies, making it a valuable resource for educators.
This book is an in-depth analysis of the case law and popular backlash to the Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London (2005). Using a variety of legal, academic, legislative, media, and popular sources, it examines and establishes the Court's most recent interpretation of property rights, eminent domain, and popular reaction to the interpretation.
Writing surrounds us, it informs us, it guides us, and it controls us. The power and complexity of this exceptional human invention is a story of change. However, in today's digital world, technology has drastically altered how and where we write, what we write about, and what writing looks like. This fascinating book presents a compelling argument for the vital importance of writing, and considers where its future may lie. Richly illustrated with examples of writing practices old and new, it explores the significant changes in writing that have occurred in our lifetime, and highlights how technology has challenged some of our most deeply held views about human communication. Through a careful examination of how writing works, it explores how it can be considered as a technology, inviting us to think again about this visual language that we so often take for granted. Writing matters - now, more than ever before.