70th Article "Writing on the walls: Supporting 21st century thinking in the material classroom"

Ayu Rini Tri Utari
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Review of the 70th article


"Writing on the walls: Supporting 21st century thinking in the material classroom"

This article asks about how do teachers facilitate writing on secondary classroom and hallway walls that helps to build rich text environments through texts? Further, how those texts reflective of literacy practices appropriate for the 21st Century, resistant to standardized curriculum, and built on students' literate lives. A school's walls are taken-for-granted spaces, not seen as central to teaching. Findings suggest that teachers used butcher paper, markers, post-its, magnetic tile words, and walls to engage students in 21st Century literacy practices.