Digital Literacy in a Grade 8 Classroom: An E-zine WebQuest

• Main Authors: Mary Clare Courtland, Dave Paddington
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2011-01-01
• Series: Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal
• Subjects: webquests; digital literacy; adolescents; e-zine; mulitliteracies
• Online Access: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/view/9773

The WebQuest (www.webquest.org) was the context for a study which explored the ways in which digital literacy mediated young adolescents’ literacy learning. Data were collected through participant and nonparticipant observations, informal interviews and analysis of documents such as a blog, journal entries and Canteen, the teen e-zine created by the grade 8 students. The findings in this study contribute to literacy researchers’ understanding of the implementation of multiliteracies pedagogy in classrooms and research into young adolescents’ engagement with and response to digital texts.