This course will encourage students to widen their understanding of what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Using a multiliteracies framework, students will learn to identify, plan, and implement meaningful learning experiences that integrate literacy and subject area learning and build skills in critical viewing, communication, representation, innovation, and knowledge creation.

Major themes to be addressed include multiliteracies theory, digital and critical literacies, media literacy, multimodal assessment and student agency, and ownership of learning. In this course, students will use technology to enhance collaborative learning and teaching, creativity, and knowledge construction and mobilization.