1st Edition
Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making
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 practices within academic contexts. Such an approach facilitates innovative teaching, inspired learning, and successful pedagogy, and it thoughtfully highlights the role of technology within mandated standards-based instruction in public schools. Combining foundational and contemporary theories, supported by data from multiple studies of adolescent learning, and honoring teachers’ and students’ experiences and resources, this text helps educators reconceptualize the ways students learn through and with digital texts and negotiate the connection between online and offline spaces. A companion website extends the discussion onto the screen, engaging readers in an intertextual approach to learning that complements the concept of layering literacies across disciplines. With a foreword by Jennifer Rowsell and an afterword by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, it will be of interest to experienced educators and administrators, as well as postgraduate, graduate, and undergraduate students of education.
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.
