Cyberschooling and Social Isolation: New Literacy Opportunities for Vulnerable Populations

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

We will explore new literacy opportunities for vulnerable populations, springing from cyber schooling during social isolation. The covid-19 pandemic stimulated a period of social isolation and remote schooling that highlighted opportunities and challenges. Many high achieving students did fine with remote schooling, typified by teleconferencing sessions and independent work with little oversight by teachers. Other students struggled with remote schooling, because of the digital divide, because of lack of motivation, or because they needed the mediation of face-to-face teachers. Further, many teachers and schools were not prepared for 100% online schooling. This set of scholars has been studying affordances and challenges of online learning for vulnerable populations and will present insights from the latest social isolation period.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Instructional Technology

Chair

• Patriann Smith, University of South Florida

Papers

• Coordinating Chaos: Mother Co-Regulation of Technological Literacies During Spring 2020 COVID-19 Remote Learning - Mary F. Rice, The University of New Mexico

• Accepting Responsibility and Collaborating with Stakeholders to Challenge the Post-Truth Narrative for the Public Good: An E-Learning Example - Michael Kristopher Barbour, Touro University - California

• Socio-Emotional Learning in Cyberschools: Results From a Large Quantitative Study - Dennis E. Beck, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; Thomas A. Clark, Clark Consulting

• Online Book Clubs and Natural Language Processing: Analysis of Fourth-Grade Small-Group Online Discussions in E-Books - Glenn Gordon Smith, University of South Florida

• Multimodal, Dialogic Discussions: Uptake and Alternation Between Oral and Written Participation During Synchronous Teleconference Conversations - Michael B. Sherry, University of South Florida - Tampa