41.084-5 - Multilingual and Multicultural Resources in Technology-Mediated Engagements: Exploring and Supporting the Digital Literacies of Nondominant Students and Families

• In Event: 41.084 - Roundtable Session 16

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium pulls together research from scholars across five different institutions featuring the digital literacy practices enacted by multilingual students and their families across three geographical regions in the U.S (West Coast, Midwest, and the South), as well as outside the U.S. As digital media becomes more ubiquitous, we explore the practices in which multilingual and nondominant students engage that are mediated by technology, including how they are connecting, with whom they are connecting, and what they are learning outside the classroom. This work positions multilingual and nondominant students and parents from an assets-based perspective by highlighting their digital media and technology use, and how they use these tools to communicate, create, and make sense of their own positions in society.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Studies of the multiple languages and literacies of varied social contexts

Chairs

• Kris Gutierrez, University of California - Berkeley

• Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder

Papers

• Digital Media Practices of Chinese- and Mexican-Heritage Youth Across Spaces and Scales - Wan Shun Eva Lam, Northwestern University; P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• More Than Devices and Translations: Digital Equity and Opportunity for Immigrant Families in the New Latino South - Silvia C Nogueron-Liu, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Tools of Change: Using Critical Computational Literacy for Interactive App Development - Clifford H. Lee, Saint Mary's College of California

• Global Youth Developing Multilingual Literacies Through Digitally Mediated Transnational Communication - Grace MyHyun Kim