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TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NEW TIMES
Multiliteracies
What is the mission of education
Your thoughts….
What is the mission of education
According to the New London Group it is to “ensure that all students benefit from learning in ways that allow them to participate fully in public, community and economic life.
The role of literacy pedagogy
The NLG believes that we should extend the idea and scope literacy pedagogy to include cultural and linguistic diversity.
Literacy pedagogy must take into account the rapidly growing numbers and types of texts and genres.
So that all learners may participate in our schools and society.
A definition of multiliteracies
The term attempts to capture the NLG’s two arguments
First, the “multiplicity of communications channels”
Second, the “increasing saliency of cultural and linguistic diversity”
Also, it is an attempt to capture the reality of increasing local diversity and global connectedness (the world is flatter)
What does it mean to you?
Changing times
Changing working livesChanging public livesChanging private lives
Changing working lives
How has your working life changed?
Changing working lives
Dramatic global economic change (globalization)
The rise of the information economy (PostFordism or fast capitalism)
Greater emphasis on collaboration and multiskilled and highly skilled workers
But, unrestrained markets in which corporations make decisions based almost exclusively on profits
A view of literacy that equips workers with little emphasis on meaningful success for all
Changing public lives
How have you seen public life change?
Changing public lives
The diminishment of the welfare state and a decrease in the importance of public spaces that escalated after the end of the Cold War (a point that we will address in The World is Flat)
An emphasis on markets over community and civic space
Schooling and literacy teaching in the old order were focused on creating a unified language, a national language. In an age of diversity the NLG suggests civic pluralism take its place—a value for the many diverse cultures and languages.
Changing private lives
How have you seen your private life change?
Changing private lives
We are entering a time of greater emphasis on subcultural differences (identity and affiliation)
Gender, ethnicity, generation, sexual orientation to name a few
New technologies have created a space for multiple spaces for these subcultural discourses (cable tv, the internet, to name two)
But also an invasion of these spaces by mass media culture and global commodity culture
Private lives are becoming more public (social networking, blogs, electronic monitoring)
Making space for lifeworlds
The challenge, according to the NLG, is to make space so that different lifeworlds (spaces for community life where local and specific meanings can be made) can flourish
We are members of multiple lifeworldsSpace for all members of society (all
subcultures) to find their voices. Current and emerging technologies have the
capacity to accomplish this
Designing Social Futures
Changing Realities Designing Social Futures
Working lives Fast Capitalism/PostFordism
Productive diversity
Public Lives Decline of public pluralism
Civic pluralism
Private Lives Pluralism and invasion of space
Multilayered lifeworlds
What does this mean for schools?
What will count for success in the world of the near future?
How do we transform incrementally the achievable outcomes of schooling?
How do we supplement what schools already do?“We cannot remake the world through schooling,
but we can instantiate a vision through pedagogy that creates in microcosm a transformed set of relationships and possibilities for social futures, a vision that is lived in schools” (p. 11).
The “What” of Multiliteracies
Designs of meaning—learning and productivity are the results of the designs of complex systems of people, environments, technology, beliefs and texts. Available designs Designing The redesigned
Available Designs
Are the resources for designThe semiotic systems including language,
images, photos, sounds, etc.The available tools for design
Designing
The process of shaping new meaningThe transformation, reinterpretation, or
recontextualization of available designs into new and emerging designs
Reading, seeing, listening are examples of designing
The Redesigned
New meaning (not a reproduction), a new design that becomes a new available design