Knowing with New Media

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 1-17

3. Paradigm Shift: From Far-Ends to Circularities

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 19-55

4. Mind-Cinema and Cinematic Writing

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 57-74

5. Writing a Subtext

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 75-89

6. Culture of Webworking: Knowing with an Endless Catalogue of Resources

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 91-115

7. Complexity of the World: Circular Interconnectedness

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 117-141

8. Cinematic Bricolage as Reconnected Learning

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 143-165

9. DIY Creativity: Culture of Self-Sufficiency

   • Lena Redman

   Pages 167-193

10. Engine Room of Creative Software

    • Lena Redman

    Pages 195-215

11. Assessment, Learning and Sociological Imagination: From Word-Count to the Value of Learning

    • Lena Redman

    Pages 217-242

12. Probes’ Review Decoding Symbols and Making-Meaning with Others

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    Pages 243-262

13. Conclusion

    • Lena Redman

    Pages 263-272

14. Back Matter

    Pages 273-276

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This cutting edge book considers how advances in technologies and new media have transformed our perception of education, and focuses on the impact of the privatisation of digital tools as a mean of knowledge production. Arguing that education needs to adapt to the modern learner, the book’s unique approach is based on a disassociation with the deeply ingrained attitude with which people have traditionally viewed education – learning the existing symbolic systems of certain disciplines and then expressing themselves strictly within the operational modes of these systems. The ways of knowledge production – exploring, recording, representing, making meaning of and sharing human experiences – have been fundamentally transformed through the infusion of digital technologies into all aspects of human activity, allowing learners to engage with their immediate natural, social and cultural environments by capitalising on their individual abilities and interests. This book proposes a new approach to teaching and learning termed ‘cinematic bricolage’, which involves generating knowledge from heterogeneous resources in a ‘do-it-yourself’ manner while making meaning through multimodal representations. It shows how cinematic bricolage reconnects ways of knowing with ways of being, empowering the individual with a sense of personal identity and responsibility, helping to shape more aware social citizens.

• Reconnected Learning
• Multimodal Learning
• Cinematic Bricolage/Writing
• Privatisation of Digital Learning Tools
• Self-Design and Education
• Knowledge-Production
• DIY Learning
• Multimodal Literacy
• New Media and Online Learning

“A timely exploration of the dynamics of multimodal meaning in the digital era, and pedagogies appropriate to the semiotic realities of our times. This is a book brimming with new ideas, at the same time comprehensively connected to contemporary and canonical literatures.” (William Cope, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)

 

• Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  Lena Redman

Lena Redman is an educational researcher. She gained her PhD in Education from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to that, she worked as a Visual Communication and Design and Multimedia secondary school teacher. Her research interests include, digital research methodologies and multimodal pedagogies.

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