Technology, Multimodality and Learning Analyzing Meaning across Scales /

• Main Author: Canale, Germán (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media,
• Subjects: Educational technology.; Discourse analysis.; Language and education.; Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Semiotics.; Educational Technology.; Discourse Analysis.; Language Education.

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 Fore...

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.