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Technology, Literacy, Learning: A Multimodal Approach
Contributor(s): Jewitt, Carey (Author)
ISBN: 0415345499     ISBN-13: 9780415345491
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $161.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2005
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Annotation: This book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum, learning and pedagogy, and literacy across the curriculum. Carey Jewitt shows how all three are reshaped by the multimodal resources and facilities of new technologies, and points the way to rethinking teaching and learning in this environment. br The author proceeds practically through an exhaustive analysis of teaching and learning with technology-mediated materials such as CD-ROMs, web-sites, the internet, computer programming applications and computer games. She relates each in turn to the main curriculum topics of English, Mathematics and Science. Through this detailed scrutiny, the following questions emerge: br - How do the new technologies reshape knowledge as curriculum? br - How does the use of new technologies in the classroom reshape learning and pedagogy? br - As writing moves from page to screen, what is the impact on students' situated literary practices and how does it affect learning? br Through these questions this book demonstrates that mode, technology and curriculum knowledge are fundamentally connected, and describes how teacher and student roles in the classroom could be altered in response to new technologies. Carey Jewitt calls for a reconceptualization of literacy and reading as a "multimodal design" and demands that the need for new strategies and policies around literacy right across the board, and particularly in relation to assessment, should be seriously and urgently addressed.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Administration - General
- Education | Non-formal Education
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Science & Technology
Dewey: 371.33
LCCN: 2005006065
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.39" W x 9.31" (0.93 lbs) 192 pages
 
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With the recent explosion of technology into the world of education across the globe, this book sets out a framework for rethinking the three key areas of schooling that are most affected by technology's impact on education today: knowledge as curriculum; learning and pedagogy and literacy across the curriculum. A well-known author in this field, Jewitt takes the reader through an analysis of teaching and learning with materials such as CD-ROMs, websites, the Internet, computer programming applications and computer games, relating each in turn to the main curriculum topics.

Through this detailed scrutiny the following questions emerge:

  • How do the new technologies reshape knowledge as curriculum?
  • How does the use of new technologies in the classroom reshape learning pedagogy?
  • As writing moves from page to screen, what is the impact on students' situated literacy practices and how does it effect learning?

Through these questions, this book demonstrates that mode, technology and curriculum knowledge are fundamentally connected and describes how teacher and student roles in the classroom could be altered in the face of new technologies.