| English Now: The Digital Production of School English |
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Further Info: LKL Seminar Series
Host/Speaker: Carey Jewitt and Gunther Kress
Date and Time:
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 12:30 - 14:00
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This seminar will present ideas from work in progress on the digital production of school English which we are developing into a research proposal. Our starting point is the changing technologies of the English classroom - from 2000 to present - and the question of how these are significant for learning and teaching. Aside from a handful of exceptional technology rich schools, the ‘new' technology of the majority of UK English classrooms a decade ago amounted to a television and video player, an Overhead Projector, and sometimes a computer on the teacher's desk (generally silently beaming out a stars from a black and white screen saver), with occasional trips to the computer suite -to word process written work or research a topic. In the last decade this space has 'become digital'. Government funding of the roll out of Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) in 2004-6 marks a major point in the transformation in the pedagogic space of the English classroom (to different degrees and at uneven rates). The IWB provides a multimodal digital hub - a portal to the Internet -that has the potential to broaden the kind of texts that enter the classroom, to change the practices and experiences of teachers and students and therefore the possibilities for learning. The proposed project area that we want to share and discuss in the seminar is an empirical investigation of the digital production of school English that asks what does this new pedagogic context mean for English now. We will present some ideas and research questions for discussion.
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