The "Why" of Multiliteracies

The "Why" of Multiliteracies

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Learning Objectives

​In this lecture, you will:

1. Create a timeline of how literacies change over time.

2. ​Relate how the changing times impacted on literacies.

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Reorder

Reorder the following phases of "globalisations"

• First Languages

• Starting to Write

• New Media and New Literacy

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Multiple Select

Select all the characteristics of "first languages".

• Languages that existed before we had writing

• Align with first nations (i.e. the indigenous people)

• No one speaks the first languages anymore today

• Dynamic (i.e. constant language change)

• Always associated with complex cultures and epistemologies

Open Ended

Reflect on the Malaysian context. Can you think of any first languages?

You may discuss with your friends.

Multiple Select

Select all the descriptions of "writing".

• Evolved only 5000 years ago

• Became restrictive through standardization

• Revolutionary (i.e. changed the way humans were organized, worked and related)

• Only for the elites (part of a system of inequalities)

• Cause the death of small languages

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Open Ended

Debate Socrates' proposition about the forgetfulness that comes with writing.

You may discuss with your friends.

Multiple Select

Select the features of the third globalisation "new media and new literacies".

• Allows signs, sounds and images to be produced by exactly the same tool

• Changing the balance of power and challenging written language as a privileged form of meaning making

• Revolutionary (i.e. changed the way humans were organized, worked and related)

• Emerge only during the digital age

• Intense multimodality because the media allows it

Open Ended

How would you envision a fourth globalisation of meaning-making?

You may discuss with your friends.

Match

Match the following to the three phases of globalisations.

• Extraordinary language differences; a range of ways of making meaning

• Language simplified in many respects; narrow social functions to serve the elites

• Meanings differ with the rise of 'diversity' in the global cosmopolis

First languages

Starting to write

New media, new literacies

• First languages

• Starting to write

• New media, new literacies

Match

Match the following to the three phases of globalisations.

• Divergence: language differences by design

• Meanings standardised and homogenised

• Divergences between social languages; globalised multilingualism

First languages

Starting to write

New media, new literacies

• First languages

• Starting to write

• New media, new literacies

Match

Match the following to the three phases of globalisations.

• Dynamism - constant language change

• Conformity required to generate stabilised official versions of standard languages

• Accessible media supporting divergence in cultures and social languages

First languages

Starting to write

New media, new literacies

• First languages

• Starting to write

• New media, new literacies

Match

Match the following to the three phases of globalisations.

• Synaesthetic civilisation; using multiple modes of meaning

• Separation of modalities of meaning and privileging one mode

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First languages

Starting to write

New media, new literacies

• First languages

• Starting to write

• New media, new literacies

Open Ended

What do you understand about literacies?

Why is there a need for literacies?

Open Ended

As teachers, how do we ensure equity in education for our students?

How does this, in turn, contributes to equality in our society?

Open Ended

How does the changing workplace impact literacy learning?

Open Ended

How do increasing globalisation and diversity in the local communities impact literacy learning?

Open Ended

The shift from mass media to social media has changed our roles from mere consumers to producers and consumers at the same time.

How do you think this shift can be brought into the classroom so that the students are both producers and consumers of knowledge rather than just passive recipients?

Poll

Do you enjoy today's class?