New Literacies in Contemporary Classrooms

Catalog description

This course introduces general concepts of new literacies (i.e., the skills, strategies and dispositions needed to adapt to constantly changing information and communication technologies) along with innovative approaches to literacy instruction. In particular, the course will focus on the use of digital tools and multimodal texts to support reading comprehension, written and oral communication, visual literacy, global competence, and creative thinking/ problem solving in K-6 classrooms.