228 p. : 23 cm, Includes bibliographical references

ia/digitalexpressio0000unse.pdf

Barrie R.c. Barrell, Roberta F. Hammett

Barrie R. C Barrell; Roberta F Hammett

Roberta F Hammett; Barrie R. C Barrell

Detselig Enterprises Ltd.

Brush Education Inc.

Canada - English Language, Canada

December 15, 2002

Calgary, ©2002

Teachers, teacher educators and scholars explore how digital media can be incorporated into the classroom in interesting, exciting and educationally meaningful ways. They consider the possibilities inherent in creating poetry in an innovative software environment, in critically exploring websites and other media, in collaborative writing projects that can involve a community of learners that spans the globe, and in becoming co-learners with their students in an exploration of various types of expression available in new media. Technology is no longer seen as an add-on to subject knowledge, but rather as a tool for helping mediate, display, critique and create data, information and new knowledge. A third, though less well conceptualized, addition to ELA curricula is critical literacy. The Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation (APEF), for example, states: "Students will be able to respond critically to a range of texts, applying their understanding of language, form, and genre." Subsequent explanations suggest that, at various levels, students will pose questions of texts, analyze points of view, perspectives, positionings, voices privileged and ignored, values, and instances of prejudice, stereotyping and bias. Literacy discussions about what knowledge young people might require to make their way in a digital world have been made even more complex

Digital Expressions brings together the views of a number of teachers, teacher educators, and scholars, all with an interest in exploring how digital media, among others, can be incorporated into the classroom in interesting, exciting and educationally meaningful ways. In doing so, they push out the boundaries of the traditional meaning of literacy, well beyond the concept of reading, studying and appreciating the "canon" of print literature. They consider the possibilities inherent in creating poetry in an innovative software environment, in critically exploring websiOAtes and other media, in collaborative writing projects that can involve a community of learners that spans the globe, and in becoming co-learners with their students in an exploration of various types of expression available in new media.

2023-06-28