“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning
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This paper examines the changing landscape of literacy teaching and learning, revisiting the case for a “pedagogy of multiliteracies” first put by the New London Group in 1996 New London Group. 1996. A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard Educational Review, 66: 60–92. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. It describes the dramatically changing social and technological contexts of communication and learning, develops a language with which to talk about representation and communication in educational contexts, and addresses the question of what constitutes appropriate literacy pedagogy for our times.
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Contemporary conceptions of AI literacy align more closely with operational literacy than with critical literacy.
“The net effect is that contemporary conceptions of AI literacy align more closely with what Cope and Kalantzis (2009) term operational literacy : the capacity to make the system function, rather than critical literacy , which entails understanding the conditions of its production and the interests and limitations embedded within it.”
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- Authors
- Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cope, Bill
- Venue
- Pedagogies: An International Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-08-06
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 164-195
- ISSN
- 1554-480X (ISSN-L)
- 1554-4818
- OpenAlex
- W2179820310
- Cited by
- 1,490
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 79 · 2025: 74 · 2024: 96 · 2023: 137 · 2022: 146 · 2021: 145 · 2020: 144 · 2019: 125 · 2018: 104 · 2017: 108 · 2016: 89 · 2015: 76 · 2014: 50 · 2013: 42 · 2012: 36
- FWCI
- 476.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Pedagogies An International Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Literacy, Media, and Education
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Linguistics and Education Research
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media, Communication, and Education
- Keywords
- multiliteracies, literacy pedagogy, New London Group, representation in education, communication technology, social context of learning
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