Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies
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Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
课程信息
This course opens with an exploration of the social context and aims of literacy teaching and learning. It goes on to describe a range of historical and contemporary approaches to literacy pedagogy, including didactic, authentic, functional, and critical approaches. The course takes has a 'Multiliteracies' perspective, which aims to expand the definition of literacy to encompass today's multimodal communications, and the diversity of literacies across different social and culltural contexts. A Multiliteracies approach also suggests a broad range of activity types—experiential, conceptual, analytical and critical.
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Recommended Background
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This course is designed for people interested in literacy teaching and learning, including people who may wish to join education as a profession, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a vocation that is currently undergoing transformation, and community and workplace leaders who regard their mission to be in part "educative."
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Take this Course for Credit at the University of Illinois.
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This course has the same content and anticipates the same level of contribution by students in the 'New Media and Literacies' course offered to graduate certificate, masters and doctoral level students in the College of Education at the University of Illinois.
Of course, in the nature of MOOCs many people will just want to view the videos and casually join some of the discussions. Some people say that these limited kinds of participation offer evidence that MOOCs suffer from low retention rates. Far from it - we say that any level of engagement is good engagement.
On the other hand, if you would like to take this course for credit at the University of Illinois, apply here: http://education.illinois.edu/online-offcampus/programs-degrees/ldl-online If you have already taken this course in Coursera, you can prepare a portfolio of work created there and request that this work is taken into account for your University of Illinois course.
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
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Section
The Aims of Literacy
This module explores the notion of "literacies" in the plural, and in particular the concept of "Multiliteracies" coined by the presenters in this course as part of the New London Group. Literacy in the singular consists of the rigid rules of official standard languages, and is purely grounded in written text. Literacies in the plural, or multiliteracies, acknowledges that language use will vary greatly from one cultural and social context to another, and that contemporary communication is increasingly multimodal, where written text is juxtaposed with, or supplemented by, image, sound, space, object, gesture, and speech. The module goes on to explore the evolution of human communication, and the patterns of communication in today's work, public, and community settings.
8 videos (Total 50 min), 14 readings, 3 quizzes
8 videos
1.2 First Languages6m
1.3 Starting to Write6m
1.4 Digital Literacies9m
2.1 Why Literacy?3m
2.2 Literacies for Work7m
2.3 Literacies for Citizenship6m
2.4 Literacies for Everyday Life7m
14 readings
Syllabus10m
Task Overview: How to Pass This Course10m
About the Discussion Forums10m
Take this Course as a Stepping Stone for a University of Illinois Certificate, Masters, or Doctorate - Fully Online!10m
Updating Your Profile10m
Social Media10m
'Multiliteracies': New Literacies, New Learning (Journal Article)10m
First Languages10m
On Globalization and Diversity (Journal Article)10m
The Coming of Writing10m
The Impact of New Media on Literacies10m
Literacies for Work10m
Literacies for Citizenship10m
Literacy for Contemporary Community Life10m
1 practice exercises
Orientation Quiz12m
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Section
Theory and Practice of Literacies Learning and Teaching
In this module, we discuss the nature of pedagogy as the conscious design of learning activities. We introduce the idea of "knowledge processes" or activity types: experiential, conceptual, critical, and applied. In the case of literacies learning, experiential knowledge processes involve immersion in familiar and new texts. Conceptual knowledge processes include naming of the features of text, and developing theories of how these texts work to serve meaningful purposes. Analytical knowledge processes explore the contexts and purposes of texts. Applied knowledge processes engage learners in the creation of texts.
5 videos (Total 30 min), 3 readings, 1 quiz
5 videos
3.2 Activity Types in Literacies Pedagogy5m
3.3 Experiential and Conceptual Learning6m
3.4 Analytical and Applied Learning6m
3.5 Major Approaches to Literacy Teaching and Learning7m
3 readings
Literacies Pedagogy in Action10m
Literacies Pedagogy in Theory10m
The Things You Do to Know: An Introduction to the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (Book Chapter)10m
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Section
Didactic + Authentic Approaches to Literacy
This module begins with an overview of the range of activity types that might be found in literacies pedagogy. These are illustrated with some examples of literacies learning modules. It goes on to examine two major models of literacy pedagogy: didactic and authentic.
7 videos (Total 59 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
7 videos
4.2 The Content Focus of Didactic Literacy Teaching8m
4.3 The Organization of the Didactic Literacy Curriculum11m
5.1 Authentic Literacy Pedagogy: An Overview9m
5.2 The Content Focus of Authentic Literacy Pedagogy8m
5.3 The Organization of the Authentic Literacy Curriculum7m
5.4 Critical Views of Authentic Literacy Pedagogy3m
2 readings
Didactic Literacy Pedagogy10m
Authentic Literacy Pedagogy10m
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Section
Functional + Critical Approaches to Literacy
Now we explore the remaining two of the four major traditions in literacy teaching and learning: functional and critical approaches to literacy. Our purpose in introducing these four major approaches has been to explore the strengths and weaknesses of each approach, as well as to advocate for the idea that literacy teaching and learning ideally involves a repertoire of different kinds of pedagogical moves or activity types.
6 videos (Total 42 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes
6 videos
6.2 The Content Focus of Functional Literacy Pedagogy7m
6.3 Critical Views of Functional Literacy3m
7.1 Critical Literacies Pedagogy: An Overview7m
7.2 The Content Focus of Critical Literacies Learning8m
7.3 Mapping Pedagogical Approaches to Literacies6m
2 readings
Functional Literacy Pedagogy10m
Critical Literacy Pedagogy10m
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Top Reviews
By NN•Nov 17th 2016
It enables me to have a wholesome understanding of literacy teaching.
Instructors
Dr William Cope
Professor
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