Literacy for digital futures: mind, body, text

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated.In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes – Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics – to shape readers' understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice.

"The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualized, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today's world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, literacy can no longer be understood through established curriculum and static text structures. To prepare teachers, scholars, and researchers for the digital future, the book is organised around three themes-Mind and Materiality; Body and Senses; and Texts and Digital Semiotics-to shape readers' understanding of literacy. Opening up new interdisciplinary themes, Mills, Unsworth, and Scholes confront emerging issues for next-generation digital literacy practices. The volume helps new and established researchers rethink dynamic changes in the materiality of texts and their implications for the mind and body, and features recommendations for educational and professional practice"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword - Theo van Leeuwen -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Beyond education for Industry 4.0: Next-generation literacies -- What are literacies, multimodality, and modes? -- Mind and materiality of reading in a digital age -- The body and senses in thought, language, and digital practice -- Texts and digital semiotics -- Implications for curriculum and pedagogy -- References -- Part I: Mind and materiality -- References -- Chapter 2: Mind and materiality of digital reading -- How digital reading is reconceptualising literacy -- New understandings of the mind and materiality for digital reading -- Shifts in processes of the mind -- Mental images -- Shifts in embodied experiences -- Multisensory stimulation -- Learning to read -- Virtual reality -- Critical issues for digital reading as a mode of making meaning -- Reading behaviours that impact on meaning making -- Implications for literacy curriculum and pedagogy -- Scaffolding digital reading in the early years -- Supporting deep reading to learn in the later years -- Recommendations for research of digital reading practices -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 3: Critically evaluating multiple sources for digital futures -- Why critical reading of online sources is important for digital futures -- Socio-scientific issues in the networked world -- Investigating socio-scientific issues -- New directions for critical literacy online: the epistemic turn -- Epistemic cognition -- Beliefs in action -- Implications for educational practice -- Critical issues in approaches to evaluation of socio-scientific issues -- Recommendations for research -- References -- Chapter 4: Why video gaming is an important digital literacy practice.