1st Edition

Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making

By Sandra Schamroth Abrams Copyright 2015
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students’ digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities to draw upon adolescents’ out-of-school interests and activities to meaningfully integrate digital... Read more

Foreword: Layering Life Into Literacy, Jennifer Rowsell. Chapter 1: Introduction: Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning—The Online-Offline Connection Technology and the Classroom. Chapter 2: A View From Inside the Fishbowl: A Culture of Layered Understandings. Chapter 3: Teaching, Assessment, and Layered Literacies. Chapter 4: Making Classroom Material Relevant Through Layered Experiences. Chapter 5: Layering the Classroom Experience. Chapter 6: Creating a Rhythm-Based Culture That Layers Approaches to Bridging In- and Out-of-School Practices. Chapter 7: But the Internet Is Down! Layering Literacies With (and Despite) Technology in the Classroom . Chapter 8: Rethinking Classroom Learning: Affordances of Technological Change and Opportunities for Inspired Pedagogy. Afterword, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis

Biography

Sandra Schamroth Abrams is an Assistant Professor of Adolescent Education in The School of Education, St. John’s University, Queens, New York, USA.