The process of generating meanings in transaction with multimodal ensembles, including written text, visual images, and design elements, from a variety of perspectives to meet the requirements of particular social contexts.
-Frank Serefini
The current landscape of communication can be characterised by the metaphor of the move from telling the world to showing the world. -Gunther Kress
We need to extend the range of literacy pedagogy so that it does not unduly privilege alphabetical representations, but brings into the classroom multimodal representations, and particularly those typical of the new, digital media.
-Kalantzis and Cope
We would define a multiliterate person as someone flexible and strategic in their literacy: able to understand and use literacy and literate practices with a range of texts and technologies, in socially responsible ways, within a socially, culturally and linguistically diverse world; someone able to participate fully in life as an active and informed citizen.
-Anstey
-Frank Serefini
The current landscape of communication can be characterised by the metaphor of the move from telling the world to showing the world. -Gunther Kress
We need to extend the range of literacy pedagogy so that it does not unduly privilege alphabetical representations, but brings into the classroom multimodal representations, and particularly those typical of the new, digital media.
-Kalantzis and Cope
We would define a multiliterate person as someone flexible and strategic in their literacy: able to understand and use literacy and literate practices with a range of texts and technologies, in socially responsible ways, within a socially, culturally and linguistically diverse world; someone able to participate fully in life as an active and informed citizen.
-Anstey
