Trailer - 100 Years of New Media Pedagogy

Announcer: In a world full of boring, dusty English pedagogy, there lies a hidden history of technological innovation and multimodal production… You just have to know how to look for it.

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Jason: The truth is, English teachers have been teaching with technology for over a century--and writing about it all along the way--in NCTE’s English Journal. 

Announcer: For example, would you ever have imagined that the 1930s was a hotspot of radio production in English classes? That English teachers have been teaching movie making for more than 80 years? When we zoom out, we can see that interest in using the digital computer for education purposes began all the way back in the 1960s. 

The English classroom has consistently been a strong site of multimodal production as well as reception. A methodology combining thin description, media archaeology, and multimodal performance uncovers these secrets… and more.

Jason: We read 100 years of English Journal…

Ben: ...so you don’t have to.