Description:
Drawing on research exploring new media practices, this book explains and encourages classroom activity that makes purposeful and appropriate use of new media and is underpinned by a set of guiding principles for teaching literacy in contemporary times.
Brief description:
Guy Merchant is Professor of Literacy and Education at Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. He specialises in research into digital literacy and the inter-relations between children and young people, and new technologies of communication. He is widely published in international journals and is a founding editor of the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy. The ground-breaking Web 2.0 for Schools was co-authored with Julia Davies, and he has since co-edited a number of collections including Virtual Literacies (2013), New Literacies around the Globe (2014), Literacy, media, technology: past, present, future (2017) and The Case of the iPad (2017). He is active in literacy education and professional work, including writing curriculum materials and professional publications.
Review Quotes: Two established and innovative scholars partnered with classroom practitioners to generate new knowledge of how to support expansive meaning making for children in contemporary times--what's not to love? The book's pedagogical principles are essential and expertly explicated and illustrated. This book will be cherished by academics, students, and teachers.
--Rachel Heydon