This work provides practical guidelines for teachers who are beginning to implement the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1 and 2. Using familiar picture books, the contributors show how learning objectives can be achieved through meaningful activities related to text.
This work provides practical guidelines for teachers who are beginning to implement the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 1 and 2. Using familia...
Written for co-ordinators and for those who are intending to take on the subject leadership, this book addresses the issues of policy development, implementation and evaluation in primary English. The authors provide guidance on the central tasks of subject co-ordination.
Written for co-ordinators and for those who are intending to take on the subject leadership, this book addresses the issues of policy development, imp...
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...
In the last five years, Web 2.0 applications - vast virtual worlds, multiplayer online games, social networking, and file sharing among them - have in...
This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media accounts of digital culture are invariably predicated on a technologically determinist vision, on the one hand promoting a utopian view of the future while on the other fueling moral panic by emphasizing views of alienation and danger in life online. In this book, children, young people and those who work with them are revealed as active agents with possibilities to navigate new paths.
This book provides an evaluation and appreciation of the learning, teaching and instruction that can occur in digital environments. Mass media acco...
The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments. As a result, teachers are caught between two competing discourses: one upholding a traditional conception of literacy re-iterated by politicians and policy-makers, and the other encouraging a more radical take on 21st century literacies driven by leading...
The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same ...
The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and will be a key resource for scholars, students and teachers, particularly those interested in digital literacies. The work presents a coherent vision of current knowledge, and some of the most engaging, empirical research being undertaken on virtual worlds and online spaces in and beyond...
The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and r...
Literacy, Media, Technology considers the continued significance of popular culture forms such as postcards, film, television, games, virtual worlds and social media for educators. Following multiple pathways through technological innovation, the contributors reflect on the way in which digital and portable devices lead to new and emerging forms of reading, participating and creating. Rejecting linear conceptualisations of progression, they explore how time is not linear as technological advances are experienced in multiple ways linked to different personal, social, political and...
Literacy, Media, Technology considers the continued significance of popular culture forms such as postcards, film, television, games, virtual w...
Gathering an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings, this book focuses on tablets from diverse theoretical perspectives, and particularly the iPad, as a prime example of mobile literacies, setting this within the broader context of literacy and mobility.
Gathering an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings, this book ...
