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The "How" of Multiliteracy Pedagogy


 * Situated Practice:
 * Immersion in a community of learners engaged in authentic practices.
 * The community must include experts, people who have mastered certain practices.
 * Such experts can guide learners and serve as mentors and designers of their learning processes.
 * Overt Instruction:
 * Includes teacher's active interventions that scaffold learning activities and focus learners on the important features of their experiences and activities within the community of learners.
 * Critical Framing:
 * Interpreting the cultural and social context of particular Designs of Meaning.
 * Involves students critically analyzing what they have learned in relation to its context.
 * Transformed Practice:
 * Putting transformed meaning to work in other contexts.