Multimodal Learning for the 21st Century Adolescent

This motivating professional resource will energize your teaching by infusing new ways to reach your 21st century adolescent learners. Thomas Bean's friendly conversational style (with references to surf culture!) adds a level of accessibility and authenticity to the strategies and instructional practices. Besides brimming with information about why creative and collaborative learning across the content areas is important to foster 21st century skills, this book also expands the definition of "text" to encompass multimodal elements, including print, visuals, audio, and other dimensions. The idea of literacy is an ever-expanding umbrella—find out how to keep your content covered!