The argument for a pedagogy which embraces visual and multimodal representation is well established in academic circles (New London Group 1996, Kress and Van Leeuwen 1996, Cope and Kalantzis 2000) and a plethora of literacies congregate around the everexpanding subject English, as the prime site for innovation and development. However, the implications for current classroom practice are still e...

This article reports on the implementation and impact of two blended models of teacher professional learning that promote innovative classroom practice and improved literacy and numeracy in six school districts in Ontario, Canada. The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning Program (ABEL), situated at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, transforms how teachers learn and teach through a str...

The focus of this paper is to turn our attention to the arts as an understudied area within the computer-supported collaborative learning community and examine how studying the learning of arts and programming can open new avenues of research. We document, describe, and analyze urban youths’ media arts practices within the context of the design studio, particularly by focusing on how collaborat...

As web-based technologies have changed teaching and learning and the support of learning, what it means to be literate has also changed. Reading and writing are now only part of what people have to learn in order to communicate in a technology driven society. A new concept of literacy has emerged that is variously described as e-literacy, digital literacy, silicone literacies, technological lit...

This article examines how research findings from the field of academic literacies might be used to underpin course design across the broad curriculum of higher education. During the last decade this research has unpacked the complex relationship between writing and learning, and pointed to gaps in students’ and tutors’ understanding of what is involved in writing for assessment. The article tak...

This paper examines the Digital Youth Network as a model for developing youths’ digital literacy through the fusion of in-school and out-of-school new media-based learning activities. Introduction When the 6 graders of today enter adulthood in 2018 what will it mean to be a productive, informed and literate citizen? We contend that being literate in 2018 will require the need to fluidly use mul...

The rapid advances in information and communication technologies, coupled with increased access to information and the formation of global communities, have resulted in interest among researchers and academics to revise educational practice to move beyond traditional ‘literacy’ skills towards an enhanced set of “multiliteracies” or “new media literacies”. Measuring the literacy of a population,...

Introducing new digital literacies into classroom settings is an important and challenging task, and one that is encouraged by both policy-makers and educators. This paper draws on a case study of a 3D virtual world which aimed to engage and motivate primary school children in an immersive and literacy-rich on-line experience. Planning decisions, early experimentation and the experience of avat...

Our interest in the techno-mathematical literacies employees need in their jobs has led us to do case studies in different industrial sectors and to design learning opportunities for improving employees’ techno-mathematical literacies. We conceptualise the learning opportunities not as training or transfer, but as forms of ‘boundary crossing’ between employees from a company and us as researche...

In contrast to the relative abundance of conceptualisations of “information literacy”, the earlier research has put considerably less attention to what are its alternatives. The findings show that there are shades in being less and non-literate beyond a mere lack of necessary skills or engagement in inappropriate practices. Information illiteracy can be experienced as a problem but it can also ...