education

From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Diverse Learners and Pedagogical Practice

Authors: 
Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan, Erica McWilliam
Publication date: 
30 July 2009

In this paper, we provide specific examples of the educational promises and problems that arise as multiliteracies pedagogical initiatives encounter conventional institutional beliefs and practices in mainstream schooling. This paper documents and characterizes the ways in which two specific digital learning initiatives were played out in two distinctive traditional schooling contexts, as experienced by two different student groups: one comprising an elite mainstream and the other an excluded minority.

Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World

Authors: 
kmcwilliam, John Hartley
Publication date: 
15 May 2009

Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape.

* Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary
* Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like

Creative Labour: Emancipation or Honey-Trap?

Publication date: 
28 April 2009

Faculty Seminar Series

Professor Justin O’Connor, Research Capacity Building Professor Tuesday 28th April 12pm-1pm The Hall (Z2-226) CI Precinct QUT Kelvin Grove

Creative labour: emancipation or honey-trap?

The uses of digital literacy

Authors: 
John Hartley, Edited by Stuart Cunningham and John Hartley
Publication date: 
2 March 2009

Online_social_networks, user-created content and participatory media are often still ignored by professionals, denounced in the press and banned in schools. But the potential of digital literacy should not be underestimated.

From vaporousness to visibility: What might evidence of creative capacity building actually look like?

Authors: 
Erica McWilliam, Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan, Shane Dawson
Publication date: 
1 December 2008

The paper seeks to warrant the authors’ claim that creative capacity building can, at least in substantive part, be made visible through empirical processes of inquiry. To do so, the authors present methodologies and findings from two research projects they have conducted into creative capacity building, the first of which tracks student networking capacity and the second of which identifies cognitive playfulness as a creative learning disposition.

The creative workforce: How to launch young people into high-flying futures

Authors: 
Erica McWilliam
Publication date: 
1 September 2008

Whether we describe them as Gen Y, the Net Gen, the Millennials or the Yuk/Wows, today's young people have grown up in a highly technologised environment. They interact, engage and disengage with greater speed and choice than ever before. But are they equipped for a work future in which creativity has become the defining feature of economic life?

The uses of multimedia: three digital literacy case studies

Authors: 
kmcwilliam, Jean Burgess, John Hartley, John Banks
Publication date: 
1 September 2008

We identify some tensions between formal education and informal learning in the uses of popular literacy since the nineteenth century, in order to argue for a ‘demand-led’ model of education in digital literacy.

Media International Australia: Digital literacies special issue

Authors: 
kmcwilliam, John Hartley, Mark Gibson
Publication date: 
1 September 2008

This issue of Media International Australia is based on several of the papers presented at the Digital Literacy and Creative Innovation in a Knowledge Economy symposium held by CCI and the ARC Cultural Research Network in March 2007. Guest edited by CCI researchers Kelly McWilliam and John Hartley, along with Mark Gibson, the articles in this issue consider how the rapid development of digital technologies has changed the production and consumption of media content, altering the very nature of the relationship between 'producers' and 'consumers'.

No longer tuned in to master's voice

Authors: 
Erica McWilliam, and Norman Jackson
Publication date: 
2 July 2008

Online digital environments are inviting all of us to reject the role of spectatorship and to participate actively in our own learning write Erica McWilliam and Norman Jackson