Understanding Youth Engagement in Digital Media Production Within and Across Complex Learning Environments

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 5

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium focuses on three settings—public school classrooms, public libraries, and community-based organizations--that are recognized for effectively using digital media creation to promote youth engagement in learning. The papers examine the complex features and possibilities of these diverse settings, highlighting confluences between educational technology and social justice in both the processes and products of youth creating digital media. Recognizing that youth already use digital tools to “write for social change” (Haddix, Everson, & Hodge, 2015), this symposium asks questions about how these settings supported experiences of critique and collective production, and afforded opportunities to imagine and write different futures, to improvise, and to revise.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chairs

• Cassandra Scharber, University of Minnesota

• Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University

Papers

• HOMAGO-ing in the Library - Cassandra Scharber, University of Minnesota; Maggie Ann Struck, Hamline University; Fan Ouyang, University of Minnesota

• Revisions by Debate: Classroom Learning - Anne Crampton, Saint Olaf College; Debra Ingram, University of Minnesota; Cynthia J. Lewis, University of Minnesota

• "I Wish I Could Do It Again": Documentary Films About Community Issues - Cassandra Scharber, University of Minnesota; Yolanda J. Majors, The University of Minnesota; Cynthia J. Lewis, University of Minnesota; Debra Ingram, University of Minnesota

• Cross-Case Analysis - Cynthia J. Lewis, University of Minnesota