For the last week, I have been reading the articles that I found on multiliteracies. I chose to read those that are teacher\u2019s sharing of their experience in teaching multiliteracies in the classroom. As I was reading the articles, I questioned myself: the \u201cmultiliteracies\u201d lessons that other teachers had done, sounded familiar and seemed to be what we had been doing on a daily basis without labelling it as \u201cmultiliteracies\u201d lessons. For example, when we read stories to primary classes, we would direct students\u2019 attention to the illustrations of the book (visual). We would also use multimodal format in teaching literacies. That led me to ask another question: Is \u201cmultiliteracies\u201d a new pedagogy in literacy teaching, or only a \u201cnew term\u201d for a basic but old pedagogy?<\/p>\n
During my research, I also noticed that most of the work were done in between years 2010 to 2012. This raised my other concern: are there any recently published work on multiliteracies?<\/p>\n
I searched online again but did not have any luck in finding recent academic work on the topic. Yet, I came across the name Kathy Hibbert a few times. Dr. Hibbert is a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Western Ontario. Multiliteracies is one of her research interests. I found and followed her on Twitter, moreover, I had visited her blog (The Salty Chip Blog, http:\/\/thesaltychip.edublogs.org) as well as the Canadian Multiliteracies Collaborative website (http:\/\/www.saltychip.com) that she had initiated to provide a platform for teachers to share ideas and learn collaboratively. On her blog, there are links to other website regarding \u201cmultiliteracies,\u201d but the \u201cCentre for Multiliteracies\u201d and the \u201cMultiliteracies Project\u201d are no longer existed. There is a link to the \u201cEmergent Multiliteracies in Theory and Practice\u201d website which still exists, still, the works posted on the website were from year 2012 or prior. I had also checked on the Canadian Multiliteracies Collaborative website. Unfortunately, after I had registered and logged in, I found the lately post was done in 2012.<\/p>\n
The research process up to this point was quite disappointing, but at the same time, raised the alarm if this is a current educational matter that I should focus on for my inquiry project. The BCTF (BC Teachers\u2019 Federation) report on \u201cmultiliteracies\u201d was one of my research result. I read it last and I agreed totally to the union\u2019s view on it. The report includes a summary of a \u201cMultiliteracies collaborative research project\u201d done in partnership of the BCTF, UBC, and the Vancouver School Board. The report concludes, and I quoted from the report, that \u201ca considerable number of teachers were engaged in multiliteracies pedagogy that they had initiated as autonomous professionals in response to student\u2019s needs, local community composition, and with an awareness of technological, communication and media changes in society at large.\u201d (p. 17-18) Multiliteracies is already existed in our practices because we, teachers, would modify our teaching according to the student\u2019s needs and change in the world, not because we all have read and studied the \u201cMultiliteracies Pedagogy.\u201d<\/p>\n
In conclusion, I am going to put a period on my research in multiliteracies. I am still interested in using multimodal format in teaching literacies, and perhaps, that would be my focus in my next inquiry.<\/p>\n
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References<\/em>:<\/p>\n British Columbia Teachers\u2019 Frederation. \u201cUnderstanding the concept and evolution of the Multiliteracies literature since 1996, with a consideration of its relevance to a Canadian teacher union engaged in a Multiliteracies collaborative research project.\u201d Web. 26 Sept. 2015. Barton, G., & Unsworth, L. (2014). Music, multiliteracies and multimodality: Exploring the book and movie versions of Shaun Tan’s ‘The lost thing\u2019. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 37(1). Web. 26 Sept. 2015<\/p>\n Biswas, Shampa. \u201cHow to Teach Multiliteracies?\u201d The Canadian Journal for Teacher Research, 3 July 2014. Web. 26 Sept. 2015. Dallacqua, K., Kersten, S., & Rhoades, M. (2015). Using Shaun Tan’s work to foster multiliteracies in 21st-Century classrooms. The Reading Teacher, 69(2), 207-217. doi:10.1002. Web. 26 Sept. 2015<\/p>\n Emergent Multiliteracies in Theory and Practice. Hibbert, Kathy. Website: http:\/\/www.kathyhibbert.com<\/p>\n Main, Kristin L. (2011) \u201cMapping Multiliteracies onto the Pedagogy of K-12 Teachers.\u201d University of Toronto. Web. 26 Sept. 2015 Natalie Cooper , Lori Lockyer & Ian Brown (2013) Developing multiliteracies in a technology-mediated environment, Educational Media International, 50:2, 93-107, DOI: 10.1080\/09523987.2013.795350 The Salty Chip Blog. Website: http:\/\/thesaltychip.edublogs.org<\/p>\n The Salty Chip: A Canadian Multiliteracies Collaborative. For the last week, I have been reading the articles that I found on multiliteracies. I chose to read those that are teacher\u2019s sharing of their experience in teaching multiliteracies in the classroom. As I was reading the articles, I … Continue reading
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