Mobilizing Connected Learning for Transformative Digital Literacy Teacher Education

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together three empirical projects that highlight teacher agency to use multimodal literacy tools to create student learning experiences utilizing digital media. The papers are grounded in the theoretical framework of Connected Learning, an approach to education that sees digital technology as a set of tools that can broaden access to interest-driven, peer-supported, and academically-oriented learning experiences when used in order to design learning experiences that encourage production, open networking, and shared purpose.

Content Area

• Area 2: In-service Teacher Education/Professional Development in Literacy

Chair

• Nicole Mirra, The University of Texas at El Paso

Discussant

• Kris Gutierrez, University of California, Berkeley

Individual Presentations

• Encouraging Teachers to Mess Around and Geek Out with Multimodal Literacies - Nicole Mirra, The University of Texas at El Paso

• Networked Inquiry for Transformative Teacher Professional Development - Antero Garcia, Colorado State University; Robyn Seglem, Illinois State University

• Teacher as Remixer: Professional Learning in an Open Participatory Network - Anna Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign