Multimodal layering : Students learning with iPads in primary school classrooms
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Simpson, Alyson and Walsh, M.. (2017). Multimodal layering : Students learning with iPads in primary school classrooms. In The Case of the iPad: Mobile Literacies in Education pp. 67-85 Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_5
Authors | Simpson, Alyson and Walsh, M. |
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Abstract | The chapter discusses the concept of ‘multimodal layering’ as both a theoretical perspective and a methodological framework for analysis. It helps the researcher explore points of potential meaning making coherence created through digital platforms such as iPads. Multimodal layering refers to the multiplicative effect (Lemke in Visual Communication 1(3): 299–325, 2002) when semiotic modes closely associated with a text are reframed in new contexts as users make meaning in digital spaces. The effect occurs in the constant shift between the material and immaterial layers of screens, modes and texts through which individual students need to navigate when reading and writing in learning events (Walsh and Simpson in Australian Journal of Language and Literacy 37(2): 96–106, 2014). This layering is made even more complex when meaning is constructed in the social context of the classroom in the dynamic operationalization of iPads/tablets in private and public spaces. We propose that the multiplicative effects existing within the semiotic boundaries of a text alter when multimodal layering occurs as the text is repurposed in a new interaction and the learner is repositioned to respond to the reconfiguring of semiosis. |
Keywords | tablets; meaning-making |
Page range | 67-85 |
Year | 01 Jan 2017 |
Book title | The Case of the iPad: Mobile Literacies in Education |
Publisher | Springer Singapore |
Place of publication | United States |
ISBN | 9789811043635 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_5 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-4364-2_5 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
07 Jul 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 30 Jan 2024 |
Additional information | © 2017 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/901x5/multimodal-layering-students-learning-with-ipads-in-primary-school-classrooms
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