MULTILITERACIES

Meeting the needs of diverse learners

MULTILITERACIES

• Allows for engaged, collaborative learning • Enables learners to access environments, tools

and resources - including other learners - at their own pace, in their own time and from wherever they might be

• Empowers learners with responsibility for their own learning experiences

• Acts as a catalyst for authentic, meaningful learning experiences

• Offers powerful new possibilities for student engagement, teacher professional development and meaningful school/community integration.

New times

Now in the 21st century our communications

environment closely links text with image,

sound, gesture, and space. So wouldn’t you

say that opening literacy out to encompass

multimodal means of communication seems

to be a practical proposal for our students

within our classrooms.

The framework

The new learning framework aims to

engage students’ life-world interests and

ways of being; it assists the planning for

learning and its assessment mapping via

four knowledge processes that serve to

frame pedagogy.

The use of this pedagogy avoids

marginalisation of many students who,

through traditional approaches to

learning and teaching, have had their

knowledge ignored (Healy,2008)

The Pedagogy

Learning by design

Learning by designs pedagogy promotes

ways by which diverse sets of students

can connect productively to more

expansive literacies knowledge through

projects that are centred in students’

lives.

Multiliteracies –It is up to you!