ABSTRACT
A layered literacies framework Sandra Schamroth Abrams tells us in this richly textured book, helps to connect students inside and outside-school experiences because technology, social contexts, and online and offline texts and norms are both dynamic and shifting. The mass media of an earlier era is also displaced in this act of upload by the participatory media of the social web. But in this book, Sandra Schamroth Abrams shows us glimpses of possibility. This possibility is not just doing educational technologies, doing new pedagogies, and new social relations of knowledge and culture. Just as our phones have metamorphosed from speaking to writing devices, so classroom discourse is framed in the dialogical/conversational grammars of new media. Sandra Schamroth Abrams book offers glimpses into this emerging world of learning, where the layers of transformation in the literacies of life can be used to deepen the literacies of learning.
