Literacy Practices and Digital Literacies: A Commentary on Swenson, Rozema, Young, McGrail, and Whitin

New Search

Print Abstract

E-mail Abstract

Full Text

Save to My Collections

Export Citation

HTML version at citejournal.org

Myers, J. (2006). Literacy Practices and Digital Literacies: A Commentary on Swenson, Rozema, Young, McGrail, and Whitin. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 6(1), 61-66. AACE.
Retrieved from http://www.editlib.org/p/21861.

• Share:
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

Journal Information

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
ISSN 1528-5804
Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2006
Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

More Information on CITE Journal

Author

Jamie Myers, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Abstract

The integration of digital tools and multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define literacy as multiple socially constructed practices. If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school literacy practices will become further distanced from nonschool literacy practices. Instead, English teachers should engage school literacies in which digital and nondigital tools help students inquire into how multimodal symbols are used to construct and negotiate community identities, relationships, activities, and values. Digital literacies may be especially supportive of such critical inquiry practices.

Keywords

• Communication
• Educational Technology
• Preservice Teacher Education
• Information Communication Technologies
• Multimedia

Also Read

• Print versus Image: Privilege and Pedagogy with old/new media in the English classroom
• Transition From The BIG Book to the Digital Peer Faculty Evaluation Portfolio at an HBCU: Resistance Is Futile
• An International Forum for Intercultural Critical Literacy: Critical Analysis of Film
• Developing a global forum for intercultural critical literacy
• Digital Storytelling: One Assignment + Three Projects = Flow
• Cooperating Teachers’ Assessment of Preservice Teachers’ Integration of Technology During the Clinical Practice: How Can Faculty Model More?
• The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
• Augmenting School Improvement Through Applied Technology: A Look at Developing Teacher Leaders Thorough Web Assisted Instruction
• PiccleForum: A website for intercultural critical literacy
• A Study of Faculty Attitudes, Perceptions, Resistance and Expectations Toward Teaching Web-Based Learning Courses in Higher Education

Tags