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What is Making Meaning

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Literacy and Digital Technology Integration in Teacher Education
Meaning is a transactional event. People make meaning during a transaction. Readers make meaning during transactional events by drawing upon their linguistic-experiential reservoir to guide their sense-making (Rosenblatt, 1978, 1994, 2005). In the context of a classroom, meaning is not located in texts or in lessons or even in people; rather, it is made through dynamic transactions with people and various texts in various contexts.
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Access, Opportunity, and Curriculum Making Through Multimodal Meaning-Making and Technology Integration in Teacher Education
Christi U. Edge (Northern Michigan University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1461-0.ch011
Abstract
This chapter describes an investigation into exploring meaning making through multimodal literacy practices and technology integration for teacher education within the context of an online, secondary reading course for K-12 teachers. Through the use of a collaborative conference protocol, discourse with cross-disciplinary critical friends, and visual thinking data analysis strategies, a teacher educator examined existing multimodal literacy practices and then studied course redesign and technology integration. Results include recognizing opportunities for diverse learners to access and use prior knowledge in the construction of new knowledge, reframing the course delivery platform as a multimodal “text,” increasing opportunity for learners to construct and communicate complex understandings through multimodal texts and technology-infused assessments, and learners' curriculum making through transmediation mediated by technology.
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