LAE 6348: Teaching Multiple Literacies
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Description:Educators in this course will be introduced to methods for teaching students to read, question, and learn from the new forms of multimodal texts that are increasingly common. The course begins with an investigation of expanding definitions of literacy and texts. Educators examine connections between school and non-school literacy, methods of teaching multimodal texts in schools and other social spaces, and the promise and pitfalls of teaching about popular culture/mass media. Required student projects may be focused on theoretical implications of new literacies or on lesson development for a specific audience.
