Technology, Multimodality and Learning: Analyzing Meaning across Scales

by Germán Canale

Overview

This book introduces multimodality and technology as key concepts for understanding learning in the 21st century. The author investigates how a nationwide socio-educational policy in Uruguay becomes recontextualised across time/space scales, impacting interaction and learning in an English as a Foreign Language classroom. The book introduces scalar analysis to better understand the situated and fractal nature of education policy as meaning-making, subsequently defining learning from a multimodal socio-semiotic approach. The analytical integration of different policy scales shows what policy means to various stakeholders, and what learning means for students and teachers. This depends both on how they position themselves and how they engage with the policy educational media. This innovative book will appeal to students and scholars of technology and learning, as well as multimodality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030217945
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/29/2019
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	265
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Germán Canale is Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences at the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Situating learning in the 21st century: Technology, policy and meaning-making
Chapter 2. Analyzing meaning across scales
Chapter 3. Toward a multimodal socio-semiotic account of learning social semiotics and meaning-making
Chapter 4. Plan Ceibal policy and the 1:1 model in Uruguay
Chapter 5. Technology and EFL across policy scales
Chapter 6. Laptops and textbooks as curriculum artifacts: Audience, authorization and ideologies in the classroom
Chapter 7. Learners as sign-makers: Technology, learning and assessment
Chapter 8. Conclusions.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book represents a remarkable achievement. It brings the calm of clear, principled discussion to the contemporary turbulence and cacophony of contesting voices and claims in sites of profound social, technological and pedagogic change. It confronts the inordinate complexity of practices, materials, technologies and policies by assembling a powerful, seamlessly integrated, coherent toolkit. It will serve practitioners, greatly advance theory and offer strategies for policy makers in equal measure.” (Gunther Kress, Professor of Semiotics and Education, University College London, UK)

“Germán Canale expands Halliday’s notion of “learning how to mean”, emphasizing learners’ agency as meaning-makers in new school practices of communication and learning. From a multimodal socio-semiotic approach to learning, he proposes new ways to understand semiosis as a situated practice at different scales, challenging us -educators and discourse analysts - to recognize the learning that takes place in classrooms.” (Dominique Manghi H., Profesora Escuela de Pedagogía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile)