52.082 - Multiliteracies, Connected Learning, and Opportunities for Equity: Exploring Key Principles of Literacies Research in the 21st Century

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel looks at the crucial, emerging intersection of multiliteracies and connected learning as they affect historically marginalized youth. Recognizing the limitations of these two bodies of research, this interactive discussion looks at how multiliteracies, nearly two decades after the New London Group’s 1996 treatise, is reflecting the recent explorations of youth learning and production in the participatory culture of the 21st century. Through sharing four case studies and comments from renowned literacies scholars as both the session’s chair and discussant, this presentation offers a needed conversation about how the “social futures” of multiliteracies and connected learning are addressed today.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Ernest D. Morrell, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Innovations in "Connected" Writing: Digital Media Production and Critical Civic Learning in a School and Community Youth Literacy Initiative - Nicole Mirra, The University of Texas - El Paso

• Dungeons, Dragons, and Developing Literacies: The Sociocultural Literacies of Tabletop Role-Playing Games - Antero Garcia, Colorado State University

• Critical Computational Literacy: Coalescing Storytelling, Design, and App Development - Clifford H. Lee, Saint Mary's College of California; Elisabeth M. Soep, Youth Radio

• Becoming Designers of Social Futures: Youth Research, Production, and Civic Engagement in Urban Classrooms - Danielle Filipiak, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley