Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms: A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making - Softcover

Abrams, Sandra Schamroth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415656591 ISBN 13: 9780415656597

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students’ digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities to draw upon adolescents’ out-of-school interests and activities to meaningfully integrate digital practices within academic contexts. Such an approach facilitates innovative teaching, inspired learning, and successful pedagogy, and it thoughtfully highlights the role of technology within mandated standards-based instruction in public schools. Combining foundational and contemporary theories, supported by data from multiple studies of adolescent learning, and honoring teachers’ and students’ experiences and resources, this text helps educators reconceptualize the ways students learn through and with digital texts and negotiate the connection between online and offline spaces. A companion website extends the discussion onto the screen, engaging readers in an intertextual approach to learning that complements the concept of layering literacies across disciplines. With a foreword by Jennifer Rowsell and an afterword by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, it will be of interest to experienced educators and administrators, as well as postgraduate, graduate, and undergraduate students of education.

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About the Author

Sandra Schamroth Abrams is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at St. John's University in New York. Her research of digital literacies and videogaming provides insight into agentive learning, layered meaning making, and pedagogical discovery located at the intersection of online and offline experiences. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, the Journal of Literacy Research, and Educational Media International. She is the author of Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms: A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making, co-author of Conducting Qualitative Research in Online Spaces and co-editor of Bridging Literacies with Videogames.

From the Back Cover

Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6- 12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students' digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities to draw upon adolescents' out-ofschool interests and activities to meaningfully integrate digital practices within academic contexts. Such an approach facilitates innovative teaching, inspired learning, and successful pedagogy, and it thoughtfully highlights the role of technology within mandated standards-based instruction in public schools.

With a foreword by Jennifer Rowsell and an afterword by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6 -12 Classrooms will be of interest to experienced educators and administrators, as well as postgraduate, graduate, and undergraduate students of education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415656591
• ISBN 13: 9780415656597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 138