Multimodal Strategies to Identify, Impact, Influence, and Imagine Literacies With Technologies

A reflective and practical guide for secondary school teachers on using innovative technologies in the classroom to support multimodal literacy development.

Living in a multimodal, multimedia, and multi-sensory world can be overwhelming. To prepare students to produce and consume the multimodal texts made possible through modern technologies, Schmidt and Kruger-Ross advocate for a slower and more deliberate approach to thinking and planning for teaching literacies. They showcase how technologies can expand, enhance, and inspire the consuming and producing powers of secondary students by examining visual and aural literacies before multimodal literacies.

Embedded throughout the book are the voices and materials of real practicing and preservice teachers, via QR codes. Teachers of all experience levels will find new ideas to challenge, extend, and enhance their literacy practice.

Dr. Pauline Schmidt is a Professor of English Education and the Director of the West Chester Writing Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Together, Dr. Schmidt and Dr. Kruger-Ross host the Notorious Pedagogues podcast which chronicles the notorious adventures of co-teaching WRH 325, a course for secondary English educators on the powers and challenges of integrating educational technologies.

Matthew J. Kruger-Ross, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Philosophy of Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Together, Dr. Schmidt and Dr. Kruger-Ross host the Notorious Pedagogues podcast which chronicles the notorious adventures of co-teaching WRH 325, a course for secondary English educators on the powers and challenges of integrating educational technologies.