Open AccessDigital Literacy in a Grade 8 Classroom: An E-zine WebQuest
Author(s) -
Mary Clare Courtland,
Dave Paddington
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
language and literacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1496-0974
DOI - 10.20360/g2j01t
Subject(s) - webquest , literacy , context (archaeology) , digital literacy , information literacy , pedagogy , psychology , paleontology , biology
The WebQuest (www.webquest.org) was the context for a study which explored the ways in which digital literacy mediated young adolescents’ literacy learning. Data were collected through participant and nonparticipant observations, informal interviews and analysis of documents such as a blog, journal entries and Canteen, the teen e-zine created by the grade 8 students. The findings in this study contribute to literacy researchers’ understanding of theimplementation of multiliteracies pedagogy in classrooms and research into young adolescents’ engagement with and response to digital texts.