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TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Ryan M Rish Bookmarked by Michele Knobel Engaging adolescents' interests, literacy practices, and identities: Digital collaborative writing of fantasy fiction in a high school English elective class "This study investigates an elective English class, in which students in grades 10- 12 collectively read and collaboratively wrote fantasy fiction in four groups. The purpose of the class was to have students consider the choices fantasy and science fictions writers, directors, and video game designers make when creating a fictional world. The students read fiction, watched movies, and discussed video games to consider how storyline continuity is established and maintained across media. Each small group of students created their own fictional world housed on a wiki, which consisted of... View Paper Cynthia Lewis Bookmarked by Tisha Y. Lewis Ellison Examining opportunities to learn literacy: The role of critical sociocultural literacy research View Paper Thomas Apperley The University of New South Wales, School of the Arts & Media, Faculty Member Platform Studies' Epistemic Threshold In recent methodological scholarship on digital games, a strong connection is noted between "platform studies" and media archaeology. While platform studies has its critics, who primarily lament the limitations of the project, a recent spate of publications in the field suggests considerable dynamism in platform studies as the concept is further developed. This article argues that by examining platform studies from the perspective of media archaeology, it becomes apparent that platform studies establishes an "epistemic threshold". Additionally, platform studies is a historical method which... View Paper Amanda Haertling Thein The University of Iowa, Teaching and Learning, Faculty Member Thein, A.H. & Kedley, K.E. (2015). Out of the closet and all grown up: Problematizing normative narratives of coming-out and coming-of-age in young adult literature View Paper Audra Skukauskaite Bookmarked by Judith L Green Ethnography as epistemology: An introduction to educational ethnography View Paper Dr. April Baker-Bell Bookmarked by Tisha Y. Lewis Ellison "I Never Really Knew the History behind African American Language": Critical Language Pedagogy in an Advanced Placement English Language Arts Class View Paper Dominic Boyer Bookmarked by Thomas Apperley Revolutionary Infrastructure How we must rethink what infrastructure is to address the challenges of the Anthropocene. We need to grasp infrastructure as potential or stored energy systems. But we must also avoid embracing the revolutionary models of the 19th and 20th century that were focused on building massive energy-intensive industrial machines. Instead, we need to practice becoming revolutionary infrastructure ourselves, committing ourselves to an ethics of hyposubjective rebecoming. View Paper Audra Skukauskaite Bookmarked by Ruth Harman A conversation with Bakhtin: On inquiry and dialogic thinking View Paper Jory Brass Bookmarked by Leigh Hall A Governmentality Perspective on the Common Core (Pre-publication Version) The Common Core Standards (CCS) has anchored an education policy apparatus that seeks to reconstruct much of the work of curriculum, teaching, and teacher education. However, teachers and teacher education faculty have often struggled to recognize the specific ideas and practices that education policies mobilize to steer their actions, institutions, and professions toward particular values and outcomes. This forum adopts a governmentality perspective on the CCS to draw attention to its political rationalities and the work that standards do to govern educators at a distance and to influence... View Paper Nicola Whitton Bookmarked by Thomas Apperley The Place of Game-Based Learning in an Age of Austerity View Paper Academia, 251 Kearny St., Suite 520, San Francisco, CA, 94108 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2015 Academia

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