The integration of digital tools and multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define literacy as multiple socially constructed practices. If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school literacy practices will become further distanced fro...

Debates on media competency and media literacy are going on now for a few decades. Many concepts have been developed in various disciplines. Along with that, discourses on visual literacy have been intensified, too, although visuals have been used in educational contexts throughout history. But only recently, after almost three thousand years of historiography, turns like iconic turn, pictorial...

The virtual university environment provides librarians with new opportunities to contribute to the educational process. Building on the success of team-teaching a traditional liberal arts core course with composition and communications faculty, librarians and a communications professor worked together to integrate the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Compe...

Asynchronous online dialogue offers many advantages to learners, but has previously appeared to restrict opportunities for engaging in the exploratory exchanges characteristic of an educated discourse. To investigate whether this is the case, a multimodal approach was applied to asynchronous dialogue, using analytic tools and techniques developed for the investigation of face-to-face education....

Introduction The ability to express ideas in a computationally meaningful way is becoming an increasingly important skill (National Research Council, 2010, 2011; Papert, 1980, 1993; Wilensky, 2001; Wing, 2006). diSessa (2000) argues that being able to express ideas in a computationally meaningful way can serve as the foundation of a powerful new literacy that will have widespread positive effec...