This collection critically considers the question of how learning and teaching should be conceived, understood, and approached in light of the changing nature of learning scenarios and new pedagogies in this current age of multimodal digital texts, practices, and communities. The book takes the concept of digital artifacts as being composed of multiple meaning-making semiotic resources, such as visuals, music, and design, as its point of departure to explore how diverse communities interact with these tools and develop and explore their understanding of digital practices in learning contexts. The first section of the volume examines different case studies in which involved participants learn to grapple with the introduction of digital tools for learning in children’s early years of schooling. The second section extends the focus to secondary and higher education settings as digital learning tools grow more complex as do students, parents, and teachers’ interactions with them and the subsequent need for new pedagogies to rethink these multimodal artifacts. A final section reflects on the implications of new multimodal tools, technologies, and pedagogies for teachers, such as on teacher training and community building among educators. In its in-depth look at multimodal approaches to learning as meaning-making in a digital world, this book will be of interest to students and scholars in multimodality, English language teaching, digital communication, and education.

Table of Contents:
Multimodal Literacies Across Digital Learning Contexts: An Open-Ended Agenda Maria Grazia Sindoni and Ilaria Moschini A Sensational Theory of Designed Experience: Replacement Parts for a Theory of Multimodality Qing Archer Zhang and James Paul Gee Pedagogies for Digital Learning: From Transpositional Grammar to the Literacies of Education Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis Section A. Focus on Children: From Pre-School to Primary Education Stars, Scores and Cheers. A Social Semiotic Critique of "Fun" Learning in Commercial Educational Software for Children Gunhild Kvåle Storytelling with Children in Informal Contexts: Learning to Narrate Across the Offline/Online Boundaries Maria Bortoluzzi, Elisa Bertoldi and Ivana Marenzi Multilingual Children’s Expressions of Participation in Preschools Using Digital Tablets Petra Petersen Watching the Sound: Sign-Making in Musical Expressiveness of Children with Motor-Related Disabilities Made Through Eye Tracking Software Záira Bomfante Dos Santos, Clarice Lage Gualberto and Sônia Maria Oliveira Pimenta Popularizing Scientific Knowledge for Children: A Multimodal Perspective Giuliana Diani Section B. Focus on Youth: From Secondary to Higher Education Exploring Multimodality in Video Podcasting to Enhance Intercultural Awareness in the East Asian Context Martin Parsons, Mikel Garant and Larry Walker Recognition of Student Resources in Digital Environments Arlene Archer Theory and Practice of the Common Framework of Reference for Intercultural Digital Literacies (CFRIDiL) Maria Grazia Sindoni, Elisabetta Adami, Styliani Karatza, Ilaria Moschini and Sandra Petroni Section C. Focus on Teachers: Practices and Pedagogies Preparing for Teaching Digital Literacies in the Curriculum Disciplines: Meta-Semiotic Knowledge and Pedagogy Pauline Jones, Annette Turney, Helen Georgiou and Wendy Nielsen Analyzing Attitudinal Stance in OpenCourseWare Lectures: An Experimental Mixed-Method Approach Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli Making Science Easier to Access: Investigating Academic Social Networks as "Composites of Connotations" Flavia Cavaliere Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Multimodal Digital Academic Numeracy Practices Robert Prince