Teachers as Multimedia Facilitators: Fostering Multimodal Learning for Emergent Plurilingual Youth in the Digital Era

• In Event: Social Semiotics, New Materiality, and Multimodal Composing

Abstract

Considering that the 21st century is featured as increasingly hybridized, global, digitized and multimodal, this study discusses the multimodal multimedia facilitation strategies that were utilized to facilitate emergent plurilingual youth’s digital participation and communication activities in an out-of-school global storytelling project. This study provides empirical data as evidence of potential benefits of shifting from a teaching approach to a facilitation approach in mediating youth’s discovery of their learning pathways and social mobility using their cultural and digital resources in representing their worlds and communicating with the increasingly digitized and globalized world.

Author

• Rui Li, University of Wisconsin - Madison