Covid x Literacy

A presentation and Q&A on the multiliterate nature of COVID and how it can be used to awaken literacy into the future.

COVID has turned literacy on its head- as in a revolution. It has unshackled literacy. The classroom is now a hybrid, more dextrous and flexible place.

The primary physical space has been moved to a physical and cyberspace – these are genuinely complementary to each other.
These two spaces are infinitely larger than each space by itself.
This is an information universe, and COVID in its nature, has unshackled multiliteracy and has advocated differentiation.

COVID challenges the idea of the teacher as the sole transmitter of knowledge and gives rise to individualising, personalising, and customising learning, leading to a required transformation of teacher practice.

Literacy is not just about learning grammar and the boundary has been challenged between what the learner knows and how they show what they know.