2. Teaching Multiliteracies for Social Change

3. Definition Multiliteracies means being cognitively and socially literate with paper, live and electronic texts. Anstey and Bull, 2006 Social Change is any major alteration in the pattern of social interactions in society. Answers.com

4. Theorists and Educational Researchers

5. Key Theorists Mary Kalantzis Born in Greece in 1949, Mary Kalantzis moved to Australia in 1953 and is today recognised as a Australian citizen and a permanent resident in the U.S. She has a Ph. D from the Macquarie University’s School of History, Philosophy and Politics and also a Bachelor of Education. Bill Cope Born in 1957 in Sydney, Australia. Like Kalantzis, Cope also has a Ph. D from Macquarie University as well as a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History from the same institution.

6. WHOLE LEARNING APPROACH “It is the belief that language should not be separated into component skills.” encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/wh/ Whole _ language PROCESS WRITING “Process writing is learning how to write by writing," notes Stone (1995, p. 232). The basic premise of process writing is that all children, regardless of age, can write. The initial focus is on creating quality content and learning the genres of writing” http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/instrctn/in5lk11.htm GENRE APPROACH The genre approach to teaching writing focuses, as the terms suggests, on teaching particular genres that students need control of in order to succeed in particular settings. This might include a focus on language and discourse features of the texts, as well as the context in which the text is produced. http://www.englishaustralia.com.au/index.cgi?E=hcatfuncs&PT=sl&X=getdoc&Lev1=pub_c05_07&Lev2=c04_paltr

7. The New London Group Founded in 1994 in New London, New Hampshire. A collection of ‘genre’ theorists and world leading English educators. Began collaborative work on “Multiliteracies” document which was completed and published in 2000.

8. Putting the “Multi” into Literacy Multi Modality “Text” can now refer to written, oral, visual, audio, tactile, gestural and spatial Multilingualism Does not only mean those who can speak more than one language but how we use the English language to achieve different social functions

9. Frameworks and Teaching Strategies

10. Learning-by-Design Framework ‘Knowledge Process’ (Kalantzis and Cope, 2008)

12. Teacher Planning 1 2 3 4

13. “Mindful and appropriate deployment of the range of knowledge processes is intended to foster higher order thinking skills and deeper learning” (Kalantzis & Cope, 2008).

14. Essential Learnings and Resources

15. Changing Forms of Text Text forms now include: Electronic Literacies Techno-literacies Digital Literacies Print Based Literacies

16. Planning Writing = Designing Recording Reading = Predicting Scanning Interpreting Analysing

17. Essential Learnings Education Queensland has embraced the concept of multiliteracies. Teachers are encouraged to create context for learning that are multi-modal and to incorporate the use of new technologies.

19. Resources Students must be challenged in the classroom to harness and develop skills that enable them to understand, negotiate, analyse, sort and navigate the breadth of communication, information, media and text options that they are presented with now, and in the future. Australian Children’s Television Foundation, 2005

21. Turning Theory into Practice

22. Outcome Focus Question: What image of beauty is being portrayed in society. Essential Learnings: Intended Learning outcomes: Students use magazines to explore how beauty is portrayed in society and then debate the pros and cons of this representation in popular culture.

23. Essential Learnings Knowledge and Understanding Words, groups of words, visual resources and images can persuade an audience to agree with a point of view by portraying people, characters, places, events and things in different ways. (English Essential Learnings by the end of Year 7) Ways of Working Students are able to: Identify the relationship between audience, purpose and text type. Interpret how people, characters, places, events and things have been represented and whether aspects of the subject matter have been included or excluded. Construct literacy and non-literacy texts by planning and developing subject matter, using personal, cultural and social experiences that match an audience and purpose. Make judgements and justify opinions using information and ideas from texts and recognise aspects that contribute to enjoyment and appreciation.

24. LEP Declarative Knowledge Students will know: The text purpose of the magazine. People are represented in different ways in magazines. Text can be constructed to position the reader. “Values, beliefs, cultural and societal influences are embedded in text” (Wing Jan, 2009, P 4). Procedural Knowledge Students will be able to: Discuss the text purpose of a magazine and how people are represented in different ways in magazines. Explain how the reader is positioned to feel when viewing magazine articles. Justify their reasoning behind picture selection for magazine Create a persuasive text that advocates for change in a magazine’s content

25. Dove http://www.youtube.com/v/IHqzlxGGJFo

26. Situated practice Exposure to real world texts and texts in students’ lives. Learning by Experiencing Strategy: The known and the new Magazines are familiar reading material however we may not regularly judge their contents from a critical literacy standpoint

27. Overt Instruction Talk about how the text work. Learning by Conceptualising Strategy: By naming Students will point features of the text

28. Critical Framing Interpreting the social and cultural context of text Learning by Analysing Strategy: Critically Predict and discuss consequences, identify gaps and sequences, justification

29. Transformed Practice Making and using text, applying the new knowledge about texts. Learning by Applying Strategy: Creatively Authentic task: As editor of a magazine of your choice, write a persuasive text to your CEO justifying what aspect of their magazine you would like them to change and why

30. Other ways to learn by applying If students are to spend time deconstructing texts (digital, print, visual or aural) than they must also receive opportunities to construct their own texts. “They need to use technology to create, alter and use texts in a variety of ways in a range of situations” (Wing Jan, 2009, p4)

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