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 * 'Literacy Learning in e-learning contexts'** is a research project funded through a Teaching and Learning Reseach Initiative (TLRI) grant.

Researchers and teachers (ECE, primary and secondary) have worked collaboratively to re-examine data from archived action research inquiries focussed on e-learning (undertaken as part of e-fellowships and the ECE ICT Professional Learning programmes) to highlight how literacy learning can take place in e-learning contexts.

The aims of the project are to:
 * Help fill the gaps in the current research literature on e-learning as contexts for literacy learning
 * Collectively theorise the literacy e-learning connections and teaching processes that are operating in NZ schools and early childhood centres by supporting teacher researchers to 're(tell) their stories' with a common focus.

Project description & project Report http://www.tlri.org.nz/literacy-learning-elearning-contexts-mining-new-zealand-action-research-evidence

For the purpose of the project, the teachers and researchers have used Luke and Freebody's 'Four resources' model as a framework for literacy analysis. This model suggests that to be considered literate in an increasingly globalised and technological world, students need opportunities for learning how to:
 * decode and encode texts (audio, gestural, spacial, visual and multimodal and printed texts)
 * make meaning from and compose texts
 * use texts for particular purposes and in particular contexts (social and cultural)
 * critique, use and transform texts

Find out more about the Four Resources Model for Literacy at: http://www.newliteracies.com.au/what-are-new-literacies?/116/ http://www.learningplace.com.au/deliver/content.asp?pid=17768 http://www.kingstonprimary.tased.edu.au/e-Learning/four_resources_model_of_literacy.htm **P** ** Practitioner Research ** Follow the links below to view the teacher-researchers' projects and analysis

Epsom Girls' Grammar School ||= Carol Marks blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ||= Chris Bradbeer blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ||= Helen Rennie-Younger blah blah blah blah blah blah blah || Lyn Paul & Margie Meleisea Nayland Kindergarten ||= Picture here ||= Picture here || Mere Ngapo Te Rau Oriwa Early Learning Centre || This project has been funded by the Ministry of Education through the Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) [link to: http://tlri.org.nz].
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 * Claire Amos
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 * =  ||= Dorothy Burt ||= Marion Lumley ||=   ||
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For more information contact: Dr Vince Ham, CORE Education (vince@core-ed.org) **or** Sue McDowall, NZCER (sue.mcdowall@nzcer.org.nz)