new literacies pedagogy for language learning session 5
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Are you a fan? What are your favourite….. Movies? TV programmes (soaps, sit com/drama or cartoons)? novels/stories?TRANSCRIPT
New Literacies pedagogy for language learning
Session 5
New Literacies and criticality
Everyday textsShopping carts
Critique of textsText +Text critiqueadbusters
the context, the text type, modes of meaning making the social purpose of the text the author/creator of the text the “ideal” reader/viewer/user: roles and positions discourses operating in the text assumptions about/ representations of the social world
the context, the text type, modes of meaning making the social purpose of the text the author/creator of the text the “ideal” reader/viewer/user: roles and positions discourses operating in the text discourses being challenged assumptions about/ representations of the social world
being challenged
Are you a fan?
What are your favourite….. Movies? TV programmes (soaps, sit com/drama or
cartoons)? novels/stories?
Fan fiction
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4616634/1/You_think_you_know_me
Types of fan fiction
In-canon: stories within the original storyAlternate universe: characters in different
time zones and locationsSelf insert: you write yourself into the storyCrossover: characters from two or more
stories meet each other
Fan fiction
Affinity spaces “Specially designed spaces (physical & virtual) constructed to resource people who are tied together…by a shared interest or endeavour.” (Gee, 2004, p. 9)
Writing fan fiction
Find someone who likes the same stories, TV programme or movie as you to work with.
With your partner write a fan fiction story of 200-300 words, give it a title and put your names as authors
Choose the type of fan fiction storyPost your story on the Fanfiction blog.
Username: literacies Password: 0810project
Reading and reviewing fan fiction
Read each others’ storiesWrite a review for 2 or 3 storiesRead reviews of your storyReviewers’ comments - supportive- constructive- helpful
New literacies and ELT in Hong Kong
Critically examine the two excerpts from recent Hong Kong secondary coursebooks.
S1Macau S3Charity Compare the literacy practices in these two
excerpts with the new literacies practices you have experienced, in particular, creating a photostory, and writing fanfiction.
Post your comments on the wikispace discussion board
The New in New Literaciesafter Lankshear and Knobel, 2006:38 and 60
Mindset 1 Mindset 2PublishingCentralized expertiseIndividual intelligenceIndividual authorshipOwnershipValue from scarcity Stability and fixity
ParticipationDistributed expertiseCollective intelligenceCollaborationSharingValue from dispersionInnovation, creative rule-breaking
We want English language learners to…• interpret, use, and create texts• in multimodal representational forms• for a range of purposes in socially and
culturally diverse contexts• in informed and socially responsible ways
(Anstey and Bull 2006)
New literacies pedagogy in L2 learning: Core principles
Aligns with literacy practices in the 21st century Involves new digital/electronic forms of
communication and interaction Draws on popular culture Connects to students’ social and cultural practices Engages students’ social identities Is meaningful and purposeful to students Explores multimodality in texts Examines texts & text production critically Has clear language learning outcomes
Challenges
How would you respond to the following (typical) comments: “Popular culture involves ‘dumbing down’.” “Popular culture only teaches kids about sex
and violence.” “Video-games are antisocial and addictive.” “Mobile phones & mp3 players should be left
at home.” “If we get our students to blog it won’t help
them to pass the HKCEE and UE exams.”
The “digital divide” between home & school
Why ‘digital media’?
Digital media and ‘convergence’ Computing, other information technologies, and media
communication networks are increasingly interlinked The internet, computer games, digital video, mobile
phones, PDAs provide New ways of mediating and representing the world New forms of communication and expression
Not ‘information’, not ‘technology’ but ‘media’ that mediate our lives and our world in terms of Knowledge Social relationships Identities
Critical and creative engagement
Outside school, young people engage with digital media not as ‘technologies’ but as ‘cultural forms’
Inside school, students need opportunities to be producers as well as consumers of media texts, so as to
1. Create and communicate messages For self-expression To influence others To interact with others
¡ Engage in critical analysis of media texts in terms of The visual and verbal ‘languages’ they employ The representations of the world they make available The positions, or roles, they invite readers to adopt
Developing critical media literacy
As teachers we need to begin from, and build on, students’ experiences and knowledge of media texts and technologies
To take students beyond this beginning involves developing knowledge of four aspects Representation: How is the world being represented? Language: What codes, conventions, and genres are
involved? Production: Who is communicating to whom and why? Audience: How are audiences targeted and how do they
respond?Buckingham, D. (2007). Beyond technology: Children’s learning in the age of digital culture. Cambridge: Polity Press
CriticalReflectiveAnalysis
Infusing new literacies into the English language curriculum
How could you enhance the textbook units you just examined to embody new literacies pedagogic principles and practices?
Reading
http://hknewliteracies2.wikispaces.com/Reading+and+resources