Literacies Lived Through Digital Making

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  In Roundtable Session: Identities Intersecting and Crossing Boundaries in Digital Spaces

Abstract

Framed within a living literacies approach, this project seeks to better understand how children’s digital making and digital content creation supports their overall literacies. It includes a focus on the relational aspects of children’s digital making including social relations, histories, spaces, digital technologies and non-digital materials. Following the cases of two children who hold historically marginalized identity markers, this paper identifies participants' literacies as lived: how they are embedded within their daily practices or building and making and how they are informed by understandings of their own creativity. Implications include acknowledgement of the affective natures of literacies and the ways in which formal education may miss the refined and well-developed lived literacies of neurodivergent and nonconforming children.

Author

• Layla Coleman, University of Wisconsin - Madison