Professor Jay L. Lemke
Biography& Annotated
Bibliography
Lemke’s Brief Biography
Educated in University of Chicago
1973 Ph.D. (Theoretical Physics)
1968 M.S. (Physics)
1966 B.S. ( Physics)
Dissertation in Proton-Antiproton Scattering
Near Threshold
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
City University of New York, Graduate School
and University Center
2000- Executive officer, Ph.D. In Urban
Education
1986- Professor of Education
1980- 1985 Associate Professor
1972- 1979 Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Discourse Linguistics
Social semiotics
( Multimedia Semiotics, On line education,
Ecosocial dynamics, Discourse Analysis, Science
Education, Postmodernism/Critical theory,
Masculinism/sexualities,Education &Curriculum,
Pain& violence others, Politics &Community)
JAY. L. LEMKE
“EDUCATION,CYBERSPACE,AND
CHANGE” Arachnet Electronic vol,1,
issue1,1993
1. Schools will not exist in their present
recognizable from anymore in the 21st century
2. Students will not require print based literacy
anymore
3. People will learn what the need to know by
accessing global electronic databases
4. Education will be in cyberspace and its virtual
realities
Jay L. Lemke “HYPERMEDIA AND
HIGHEREDUCATION”
1.Scholarship weaves a fabric that ties information
of diverse sources
2.Books and works are not read in linear order by
scholars. They dip into works at various points
3.Hypertext is an instant intertextuality without
unnecessary efforts by the author or reader it is
an immediate inclusion of reference material
with the freedom of the reader
4. Hypermedia will revolutionize higher education in
two ways:
a) “disturbed” model
b) Independent learning model
5. Students should be trained to be scholars
researchers and independent problem – solvers
Lemke thinks that we are not preaching what we
practice, not teaching students to do what we
do ( but only trying to teach them to know what
we know), not being true to the meaning of
scholarship itself.
Jay L. Lemke “ Metamedia Literacy:
Transforming Meanings And Media” In D.
Reinking, L. Labbo, M. Mckennea,& R.
Kiefer (Eds), Handbook of Literacy and
Technology: Transformation in a Post
Typographic World. Hillsdale. Nj: Erlbaum.
(pp. 283-301) 1998.
1.Literacies are themselves technologies
2. Literacies are essential links between self and
society
3.There must be some linguistic and nonlinguistic features for meaning to be realized
The making of meaning will depend on the new
literacies that information technologies are
making both necessary and possible
Students should be help to understand how to
read text differently.
Learning will not take place in curricular
paradigm but in an interactive environment in
Jay L. Lemke “ discursive Technology and
the Social Organization of Meaning”
Meaning is increasingly conceptualize as a result
of a process between organism and environment
Discursive technologies as hypertext afford us to
create new meanings
Semiotic processes across scales imply that higher
levels of social organization are required to
determine the meaning of this objects in particular
events.
Standardization is the solution to the problem of
ecosystem scale
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