If you love writing and want to know more about the future of writing, then keep reading.This post will discuss the importance of writing in our futures and hence focuses on alternative approaches inregards to literacy. However, for starters, I think we can all agree that writing is one of …
The responsibility for teachers to develop their students‘ multiliteracy skills includingdigital literacies has grown significantly in the 21st century. As the whole world becomeseven more digitally connected, students need to be informed about the possibilities and risksthat simultaneously occur in the digital world. More importantly, there is currently achallenge that …
The main goal of multiliteracies is to ensure, that every student can benefit from education and thus participate fully in various social situations. This aim does, apart from the aspect ofspeaking, affect the aspect of writing as well. Especially in the 21st century, writing has becomemore complex regarding its multimodality. …
Try to consciously look around you right now or try to think back to what you have done today.What kind of media surrounds you? How have you interacted with these throughout your day? Wehave grown used to the technologies we utilize to express ourselves and our thoughts. In the past,creating …
With the world changing every day and the current trends of globalization and digitalisation everything has to change to be up to date; to maintain the best standards within a society. Not only politics has the need to keep up with the new possibilities of the 21st century, but it …
School is changing. Nowadays there are more possibilities in the classroom concerning the material dealt with in class, for example, texts are not only textbooks or print anymore. There are far more than two possibilities to deal with the material in class like audio, visual and oral material. Over time …
Technology is a central part of everyday life in the 21st century. This is due to the fact that technology develops very quickly and that we depend on it. We use digital media today which did not exist 20 years ago. As technology develops, we have to develop ourselves as …
From Mono- to Multi – 21st century language learning The main goal of education should be to provide every student independent from cultural and economic background with a learning opportunity they can benefit from in their lives. With the technological and societal developments in the 21st century this constitutes a …
What role do multiliteracies play for writing in the 21st century?When I first heard the term “multiliteracy”, I had no idea about its meaning. I simply figured that it wasjust another one of the concepts that sound great in theory but are hardly applicable in an actualclassroom or that are …
Multiliteracies ae not only fundamental for communication but also for languagelearning. Since we live in a globalized world that increasingly becomes digitized, one is requiredto expand his or her communicative as well as technological skills even more. However, literacyhabits and skills that are taught in school do not necessarily reflect …