Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia-About the Course
Syllabus
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Course Readings
Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia-About Your Classmates
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Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia-Introduction
8.1 Introduction - Representation, Communication and Design
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"Regimes of Literacy," Kalantzis and Cope
Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia-Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia
8.2 Design and Multimodality
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8.3 A Grammar of Multimodal Meaning
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8.4 Synesthesia or Mode Switching
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Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning -Making Meaning by Reading
9.1 Learning to Read: Phonics
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9.2 Learning to Read: Reading for Meaning
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Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning -Making Meaning by Writing
10.1 The Nature of Writing
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10.2 Traditional Grammar and Its Impossibilities
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10.3 Chomsky’s Grammar
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10.4 Halliday’s Grammar
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10.5 A Grammar of Multiliteracies
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10.6 The Writing Process
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Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning -Making Visual Meaning
11.1 The Contemporary Significance of Visual Meanings
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11.2 Designs of Visual Meanings
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11.3 Perceptual Images and Mental Images
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11.4 A Grammar of the Visual
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11.5 Deconstructing Images
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11.6 Image Making as Design
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11.7 Parsing Images
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11.8 Multimodal Pedagogy in Practice
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Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn-Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings
12.1 Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings
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12.2 A Grammar of Spatial Meaning
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12.3 Tactile Meanings
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12.4 A Grammar of Tactile Meaning
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12.5 Gestural Meanings
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12.6 A Grammar of Gestural Meanings
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Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn-Making Audio and Oral Meanings
13.1 Making Audio Meanings
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13.2 Making Meanings Using Oral Language
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13.3 Synesthesia and Mode Shifting Between Oral and Written Meanings
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13.4 Classroom Discussion in Speech and Writing
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Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn-Literacies to Think and to Learn
14.1 Literacies to Think and to Learn
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14.2 On Human Meaning Systems
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14.3 Academic Literacies as Ways of Thinking
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Module 4: Literacies and Learner Differences + Literacies Standards and Assessment-Literacies and Learner Differences
15.1 Literacies and Learner Differences
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15.2 The Effects of Learner Differences
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15.3 Literacies Learning and Development
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15.4 Recognizing Learner Differences in Literacies Pedagogy
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15.5 Complexities of Learner Differences
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15.6 Differentiated Literacies Instruction
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Module 4: Literacies and Learner Differences + Literacies Standards and Assessment-Literacies Standards and Assessment
16.1 Approaches to Literacy Standards and Assessment
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16.2 Standardized and Norm-referenced Assessment
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16.3 Criterion Referenced Assessment
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16.4 Progress Assessment
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16.5 Select and Supply Response Assessments
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16.6 Rubric-Based Peer and Formative Assessment
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16.7 Big Data and the Future of Assessment
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