42.082 - Reimagining Online: Fostering Inclusivity, Engagement, and Participation in a Digital Age

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel asks how educators can effectively facilitate inclusive, critical, and aesthetically-alert communities of learners and leverage diverse voices in online learning environments. Four case studies explore (1) the role of multimedia and multimodality in fostering social presence; (2) the technological supports of a writing program that promote diverse student voices; (3) the practice of video-chat via a social network for building relationships between mentors and youth; and (4) the collaborative creation of artifacts through a digital whiteboard to expand understandings of and opportunities for literacy. These cases are framed theoretically by an exploration of the construct of digital social presence and the building of authentic and generative learning relationships in online and in-person experiences.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning

Chair

• Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• Vectors of Participation: Locating Social Presence in Assemblages of Content - John Michael Scott, University of California - Berkeley

• ReMEDIAting College Writing - Jennifer K. Dizio, University of California - Berkeley

• "Please Stop Being That Nice, Please?" Intersections, Near Misses, and Collisions as Youth and Mentors Connect Online - José Ramón Lizárraga, University of California - Berkeley; Jason Sellers, University of California - Berkeley

• Collaborative Meaning-Making in Online and Hybrid Classroom Contexts - Glynda A. Hull, University of California - Berkeley; Sophia Sobko, University of California - Berkeley; Devanshi Unadkat, University of California - Berkeley

Discussants

• David E. Kirkland, New York University

• Jessica Powell, Google Inc