Reframing Literacy: A Film Pitch for the 21st Century: Different Media--the Book, The Radio, The TV, The Computer, The Cinema Screen, Etc.--Do Not in Themselves Require Different Literacies, Argues Mark Reid. It is Time, He Suggests, That Our Definition of Literacy Embraced Them All

By English Drama Media

Release : 2009-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

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To get a film made in Hollywood there's a practice of 'pitching' an idea for a film as succinctly as possible to a busy studio executive. Succinct, for Hollywood, means '24 words or less.' (1) In trying to influence educational change, it's a practice we could learn from. So here's a pitch for a conception of literacy in the 21st century: 'Literacy is not just about the written word.'

Reframing Literacy: A Film Pitch for the 21st Century: Different Media--the Book, The Radio, The TV, The Computer, The Cinema Screen, Etc.--Do Not in Themselves Require Different Literacies, Argues Mark Reid. It is Time, He Suggests, That Our Definition of Literacy Embraced Them All

By English Drama Media

Release : 2009-06-01

Genre : Education, Books, Professional & Technical

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
To get a film made in Hollywood there's a practice of 'pitching' an idea for a film as succinctly as possible to a busy studio executive. Succinct, for Hollywood, means '24 words or less.' (1) In trying to influence educational change, it's a practice we could learn from. So here's a pitch for a conception of literacy in the 21st century: 'Literacy is not just about the written word.'

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