Popular Culture research project started its series seminar yesterday. Professor Nicola Yelland from Early Childhood Education made a presentation on "Critical Issues for learning in the 21st century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge building".March 18, 2009 Wednesday Hong Kong Institute of Education
Popular Culture and Education in Hong Kong
Series Seminars
Critical issues for learning in the 21st century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge buidling
Nicola Yelland, Hong Kong Institute of Education
In this talk, Nicola explored the lifeworlds of Millennial learners. She also suggested that they live multimodal lives that are very different to the lives that they experience in school. She introduced ways in which this impacts on our conceptualisation of literacy and share some of her work with teachers who have broadened their undertandings about literacies for the 21st century, which encourage students to become active participants in the knowledge era.
