Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom

Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom

Darren Lee Pullen, David R. Cole
Indexed In: SCOPUS
Release Date: July, 2009|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 340
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-673-0
ISBN13: 9781605666730|ISBN10: 1605666734|EISBN13: 9781605666747
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Recently, educators have begun to consider what is required in literacy curricula and best teaching practices given the demands placed on the educator sector and on literacy in general.

Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education: Social Practice and the Global Classroom features theoretical reflections and approaches on the use of multiliteracies and technologies in the improvement of education and social practices. Assisting educators at different teaching levels and fostering professional development and progress in this growing field, this innovative publication supports practitioners concerned with teaching at both a local and global level.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Cam-capture literacy
  • Chemical literacy
  • Digital Technologies
  • History of multiliteracies
  • ICT Integration
  • Literacy performances
  • Multiliteracies in practice
  • Multiliteracies perspective
  • Robotics as a vehicle
  • Sociocultural aspects of technology
  • Spatial Literacy
  • Theorizing media productions
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"This book describes the global classroom and how educational uses of technology are coming together in terms of development and application. This book also details how new ways of teaching and learning are becoming apparent."

– Darren Pullen, University of Tasmania, Australia
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Darren Lee Pullen is a lecturer in ICT, professional studies and multiliteracies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Tasmania (Australia). He has a diverse background with previous employment as a research fellow in the health sector, ICT consultant, and educator. His research interest is in the management of change processes with a particular interest in the micro-meso-macro level relationships between technology innovations and human-machine (humachine) relationships and interactions.
David R. Cole is a senior lecturer in English and pedagogy at the University of Technology, Sydney. His major research areas are multiliteracies, multiple literacies, and affective aspects of literacy and education. He has worked as an international English teacher on four continents, and has published widely in academic journals including English in Australia, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and Prospect and Curriculum Perspectives. He is currently under contract to write two edited academic books on literacy theory, and has published a novel about Colombia called A Mushroom of Glass (2006). He is presently researching the complex multiple literacies of Sudanese immigrant families living in NSW.
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Jonathan Binns, Australian Maritime College, Australia
  • Brian Cusack, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Matthew Kearney, Kuring-gai Campus University of Technology, Australia
  • Elena Railean, State University of Moldova, Moldova
  • Sandy Schuck, Kuring-gai Campus University of Technology, Australia
  • Pam Wright, La Trobe University, Australia