EDU 5617 New Technologies and Literacy
This course serves to introduce students to new technologies and critical literacies. Grounded in the work of critical theorists, this course examines literacy development from a critical perspective: Who is left out? Marginalized? Who benefits? What does it mean to be literate? By whose measure? For what purpose? Students deepen their understanding of how new technologies function and can be used in real and virtual classrooms and how to attend to mediated and non-mediated texts through a critical lens. Students examine ways that critical literacies are privileged in classroom pedagogy, text selection, and curriculum development and develop a unit of study employing new technologies and critical literacies. (Literacy Course)