e-Learning Ecologies MOOC’s Updates
MULTILITERACIES
Multiliteracies
This kind of pedagogy is recently introduced in mid 1990's because there was a shift in the way people communicated due to introduction of new technologies. The language was represented in different ways across different cultures,hence a new literacy was developed called digital literacy in multiple ways.
Why this came into being?
As due to globalization and increase in immigration, communication between cultures and different languages is necessary and thus English being a global language is spoken differently. Also with the technology and multimedia changing ways of communication, now we can communicate by using sound, images etc to the text, eg in movies,billboards etc for effective communication.The person understands the knowledge represented to him in an easier and attractive way.
Now the "Pedagogy of Multiliteracies" focussed on ways to meet the learning needs of students to allow them to navigate within these multimodal literacies. The new teaching method proposed to incorporate multimodal ways of communication that included linguistic, visual, audio,spatial,gestural etc, The students need to draw on their own experiences and semiotic literary practices to represent and communicate meaning. Purposr driven Education integrate the use of multiliteracy by encouraging student learning through exploration of their passions using their senses, technology, vernaculars, as well as alternative forms of communication.
ref:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiliteracy#:~:text=Multiliteracies%20is%20a%20term%20coined,of%20linguistic%20expression%20and%20representation.
https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec540sept10/2010/11/14/commentary-on-multiliteracies/
Thanks for sharing some thoughts on Multiliteracies. You raise an interesting question, namely, what are the similarities and differences in how digital literacy been implemented across various cultures.
It would be great, Prema, if you could expand your post and address:
- What motivated you to select the topic of Multiliteracies for this update?
- What you feel is the relationship between Multiliteracy and Multimedia?
- What differences you have seen in the use of Multimedia in your own country/culture, compared to other countries, and how this should guide the development of Multiliteracy of students in your own country?