Keywords
multimodal writing, ELA classroom, writing practice, ELA writing, ELA instruction
Submission Type
Research
Preview
When I graduated from high school in 2001, my classmates and I were delighted to be the first graduates of a new century. Ushering in the twenty-first century evoked glittering promises of new and faster technologies, networked global communication, and a wide array of professional possibilities. When I entered my first classroom as a high school English teacher in 2004, however, I noticed that not much about the classroom or the curriculum had changed: I taught many of the same classic novels I had read in high school, I assigned the same kinds of writing tasks I had written as a student, and my students were evaluated by increasingly higher-stakes tests and ever-narrowing standards.
Recommended Citation
Jensen, Amber
(2019)
"Beyond Posters and PowerPoints: A Case for Authentic Multimodal Writing in the 21st-Century ELA Classroom,"
The Utah English Journal: Vol. 47, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/uej/vol47/iss1/1