Jewitt, C. (2008) ‘Multimodality and Literacy in school classrooms’, AERA Review of Research in Education, vol. 32, pp. 241–67.
In this article, Jewitt reviews research into multimodality and literacy in the classroom, and asks what these changes mean for being literate in contemporary society, where digital media are embedded in everyday literacy practices. Jewitt argues that the time for associating learning primarily with language and print literacy is over.
New technologies are being used in schools.This article reports on a case study of one teacher’s work to integrate an interactive whiteboard (IWB) into a primary classroom.
Building up from the paradigms of 'scaffolding' and 'collaborative learning', synergy explores an alternative strategy to stimulate and foster learning.