8/21/12 1 EFFECTIVE LITERACY PEDAGOGY: AMPLIFIED BY TECHNOLOGY? Lisa Kervin [email protected]Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, NSW With acknowledgement to my colleagues: Irina Verenikina and Pauline Jones BACKGROUND The pedagogical practices of many teachers are now being influenced by the introduction of the technology What does this mean for literacy? In recent years there has been large-scale investment of technology (computers, laptops, wireless connectivity, IWBs, mobile communication devices …) in many Australian schools BACKGROUND Learning and communicating (Castek, 2008, Leu et al 2004) New dispositions and discourses (Gee, 2007; Kress, 2003) Semiotic contexts characterised by multimodality (New London Group, 1996; Hull & Schulz, 2001) We see technology in the literacy classroom as a way to mediate:
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EFFECTIVE LITERACY PEDAGOGY: AMPLIFIED BY TECHNOLOGY?
The pedagogical practices of many teachers are now being influenced by the introduction of the technology
What does this mean for literacy?
In recent years there has been large-scale investment of technology (computers, laptops, wireless connectivity, IWBs, mobile communication devices …) in many Australian schools
BACKGROUND
Learning and communicating (Castek, 2008, Leu et al 2004)
New dispositions and discourses (Gee, 2007; Kress, 2003)
Semiotic contexts characterised by multimodality (New London Group, 1996; Hull & Schulz, 2001)
We see technology in the literacy
classroom as a way to mediate:
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THE QUESTIONS WE ASK:
What technologies do teachers use in their literacy pedagogy?
For what purposes are these technologies used?
Who uses the technologies? What literacy knowledge and
skills are enabled by the use of these technologies?
What is the relationship between technologies and literacy pedagogy?
WHY ACTIVITY THEORY? Teacher as a subject of a pedagogical
activity Captures the complexity of the use of
technologies in the classroom Identify and analyse contradictions
between the subject and various elements of the activity
Views technology as a tool to achieve pedagogical goal
Pedagogy driven, not technology driven
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The literacy teacher
The delivery of a literacy experience using
technology
Technology, lesson materials,
assessment, teaching practices
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The wider school community - leadership, other teachers, students
Classroom regulations and conventions (behaviours,
theory), as well as school policy,
The division of power between the subject and the community
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The transformed object - improved?
Not improved?
Activity theory provides a framework for understanding the dynamic and cyclical relationship of application and evaluation, as
the subject (teacher) applies a tool (such as laptops, IWB, mobile
communication device) to accomplish a goal (improved literacy based teaching and
learning).
Is the literacy leading the technology?
Or the technology leading the literacy?
How can we know?
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Literacy teaching in the ‘digital revolution’ is not merely
business-as-usual with a new tool.
There are possible synergies and disjunctions between technology,