Toward a More Visual Literacy

Technology and multimodal texts must be included as part of the literacies we teach in 21st century schools. Implementing multiple modes of literacy requires that teachers shift their focus toward multiple genres and modes of text. This shift to the visual requires that teachers consider how students read images in the classroom, address visual literacy, and engage students in constructing visual texts. Students already live and communicate in a virtual world connected by expansive networks, and many also read young adult literature. Given this, researchers and practitioners in the field examine ways texts written for students can be combined with digital tools to craft more critical conversations around literary response and digital media consumption and production. This book explores ways adolescents read, engage, and construct meaning within the world around them and examines how teachers can leverage the use of young adult literature with digital practices within their classrooms.

ForewordLisa ScherffIntroduction: Positioning Students as Creators in the ClassroomJennifer S. Dail and Shelbie WittePart I: Classroom Contexts: Helping Students Visualize Digitally Chapter 1- "It's about more than words:" Reading All American Boys in a Social Digital Reading Environment Sara KajderChapter 2- Flipping the Teaching of Young Adult Literature Amy PiotrowskiChapter 3- Learning Conversations: Ancient Practice Meets New Technology Jenny Cameron Paulsen and Matt CopelandPart II: Social Engagement: Connecting Youth Beyond School Chapter 4- Responding to Young Adult Literature through Civic Engagement Kristen Hawley Turner and Dawn ReedChapter 5- Social Media, Gaming, and Jay Gatsby: Integrating Youth Motifs with Youth Literacies in High School EnglishAlison Heron Hruby, Lindsay Ellis Johnson, Dakoda Trenary, and Dallas CoxChapter 6- Infusing Young Adult Literature into the Virtual Classroom Brooke Eisenbach, Paula Greathouse, and Jennifer FarnhamIII: Critical Inquiry: Digging Deeper with Young Adult LiteratureChapter 7- Emerging Media, Evolving Engagement: Expanding Teachers' Repertoires of Literary Study and Response Anna Smith and Robyn SeglemChapter 8- Seeing the World Differently: Remixing Young Adult Literature through Critical LensesJennifer S. Dail and Aneté VasquezChapter 9- Song of Myself: A Digital Unit of Study Remixed Fawn Canady, Kymberly Martin, and Chyllis ScottAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors