Read the word and the world  -  Paulo Friere

Literacy means much more than reading the written word. We interpret and communicate thoughts, feelings and ideas through the use and organization of spoken and written words, sound, images and gestures.

Come explore media at the heart of literacy! Together, we will draw from meaningful layers of text in order to create a personal media response to a media piece. We will read and respond by purposefully combining the structures and features of media texts such as images, sound, words, and digital video. This hands-on workshop will situate the context and model the process through which students learn about and understand the language of media and its presence in their world.

Workshop overview:

• By purposefully combining different elements, you will create a media response to a media text that reflects your personal perspective and understanding.

• We will illustrate how several areas of the Quebec Education Plan can be connected to help students understand, interpret and produce their own multimodal texts.