Multicultural Lessons Learned From a Chinese Bilingual After-School Program: Using Technology to Support Ethnolinguistic Children's Cultural Production

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Abstract

This qualitative case study explores how instructional technology further mediates the uses of digital artifacts (i.e., iPads, digicams, Wikispaces) to support Chinese bilingual children’s cultural production and their science and literacy learning in an afterschool program at a New York City public school. The analysis of student work further illustrates rich classroom discussions for multicultural practitioners.

Authors

• Sharon Chang, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Carmen M. Martinez-Roldan, Teachers College, Columbia University