“Technology Brings Learning to Life”: Planning Writing Opportunities through Multimodal and Digital Resources

This paper illustrates how participating elementary teachers plan their literacy-based curriculum and create learning opportunities for writing through multimodal resources and digital technology tools in their classrooms. A theoretical lens of New Literacies (Coiro et al., 2008; Leu et al., 2013) g...

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Main Author: Carol Doyle-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2019-07-01
Series:Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
Online Access:https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29468
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description This paper illustrates how participating elementary teachers plan their literacy-based curriculum and create learning opportunities for writing through multimodal resources and digital technology tools in their classrooms. A theoretical lens of New Literacies (Coiro et al., 2008; Leu et al., 2013) guides this qualitative study. Through comprehensive interviews and an analysis of activity resources and digital tools, how teachers plan and design writing curriculum with a multimodal focus and create opportunities for collaboration and enhancing authorship are discussed.
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url https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/29468
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