Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Literacy and Language Teaching (2000), co-editor of Décrire la conversation en ligne (2011), and co-editor of Network-based Language Teaching (Cambridge, 2000). He is Associate Editor of the journal Language Learning and Technology and has published many articles and chapters related to language, literacy, and technology.
Introduction
Part I. Designing Meaning: 1. Communication by design
2. Material resources: the medium matters
3. Social ecologies
4. The individual and design
Part II. Interactions of the Material, the Social, and the Individual: 5. Ancient writing in Mesopotamia
6. Paper and print
7. Writing redesigned: electronically mediated discourse
8. Multimodal discourse
Part III. Educational Implications: 9. Principles and goals in language and literacy education
10. Toward a relational pedagogy.
