New Media in the Classroom

Rethinking Primary Literacy

By: Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant

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eText | 24 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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‘This an exciting publication that offers authentic approaches for educators to meet challenges of the literacy that students need in our evolving digital landscape.’

Maureen Walsh, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University and Honorary Professor, The University of Sydney

‘In this significant new text, Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant foreground the affective, embodied and emergent nature of making meaning with new media.’

Teresa Cremin, The Open University

The rise of new media technologies has changed the ways in which children engage with texts and this has implications for literacy provision in schools. Drawing on research exploring new media practices within and outside school, this book explains and encourages classroom activity that makes purposeful and appropriate use of these literacies and is underpinned by a set of guiding principles for teaching literacy in contemporary times.

Key topics include:

Building on children’s experiences in and out of school
Supporting children to draw on multiple modes and media to develop and convey meaning
Developing a responsive approach to literacy provision
Investigating ways of encouraging collaboration through and around digital media
Encouraging children to use digital media safely and advantageously

This is essential reading for primary English or elementary language arts modules on initial teacher education courses including university-based and schools-based routes into teaching and also for current teachers wishing to enhance their own literacy teaching.

Cathy Burnett is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Hallam University.
Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy in Education at Sheffield Hallam University.

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This an exciting publication that offers authentic approaches for educators to meet challenges of the literacy that students need in our evolving digital landscape. Cathy and Guy apply ongoing educational research to justify their proposal of a “Charter for 21^st Century Literacies”. While acknowledging extant polarisations and tensions, the nine principles of their Charter are designed around specific pedagogical approaches that allow for the diversity of students, their environment and the media. Through each chapter the authors demonstrate the need for classrooms to enable “creative, collaborative and experimental meaning making that draw on different elements of one’s communication repertoire”. Examples are offered to demonstrate the multidimensional potential of literacy across linguistic, media and social contexts.