‘Multiliteracies’, one of the Literacy Education buzz words, describes what constitutes literacy and meaning making in today’s world. Furthermore, as Kalantzis and Cope (2008) point out, meaning is made in ways that are increasingly multimodal—in which written-linguistic modes of meaning interface with oral, visual, audio, gestural, tactile and spatial patterns of meaning.
For centuries we have been facilitating our students to critically engage with multiliteracies and, for a long time, the availability of material has been relatively confined. As we enter a new chapter in education, where students are engaging with omnipresent texts and media, we face a new challenge; we now need to facilitate our students in being able to effectively and efficiently engage with the information they have available to them. When our students are searching, we need to teach them how to quickly navigate and locate useful websites.
So it makes sense that teachers are now engaging students in critical literacy and evaluation of the texts that are available to them on the internet
However, as teachers, we all know that the creation of new tasks, criteria sheets and rubrics is often time consuming and difficult, as we need to be clear about the outcomes.
The following links provide information on how to engage our students in the evaluation of blogs and provide an exemplar of a rubric that could be used.
If you are reading this and can share any similar resources or information that would be useful for teachers, it would be great if you could let us and all our readers know.
http://21cif.com/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/valenza1.5_blogeval.html
http://21cif.com/rkitp/assessment/v1n5/blog_evaluation_assessment_v1n5.html
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