Assignment 1 Lessons and Lesson Outlines

Prior to commencing the webquest students will be involved in a series of lessons focussing on critical literacy and the visual rhetoric and visual literacy of reading webpages in particular the message an image conveys.


‘visual literacy. It’s not just looking at pretty pictures. It’s understanding how we think—how we connect
what we already know about the world, life, relationships and values to those pictures’ (Burmark Lynell, 2010)

As the webquest progresses lessons will be structured to embed and scaffold literacy skills, in particular the skills required to construct a multi modal travel blog.


‘The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing information and communication technologies and contexts that continuously emerge in our world and influence all areas of our personal and professional lives. These new literacies allow us to use the Internet and other ICTs to identify important questions, locate information, critically evaluate the usefulness of that information, synthesize information to answer those questions, and then communicate the answers to others.’ ( Leu, Kinzer, Corio, Cammack, 2004)

Critical Literacy focus lessons

in the electronic environment what must be interpreted is not a complementary relation of separately developed texts but the expansive signification of an entire sign system’  (Leu, Kinzer, Corio, Cammack 2004)

  • Deconstructing the blog. Viewing and analysing a series of blogs.

‘ Within the structure of a blog, students can demonstrate critical thinking, take creative risks, and make sophisticated use of language and design elements. In doing so, the students acquire creative, critical, communicative, and collaborative skills that may be useful to them in both scholarly and professional contexts’. ( Duffy and Bruns 2006)

 

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