A funds of knowledge approach to the appropriation of new media in a high school writing classroom |
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| Authors: | Lisa H Schwartz |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USAlisa.h.schwartz@colorado.edu |
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| Abstract: | Youths’ learner-generated designs, instantiated in digital practices, spaces and artifacts, are underutilized in schools. Additionally, digital media tools are often taken up in reductive ways that serve to perpetuate deficit discourses for youth from nondominant communities, rather than reflect the creativity and innovation that youth practice within digital domains. To address these issues, this article shares a funds of knowledge approach to the use of new media in classrooms. Coupled with an emphasis on new literacies and multiliteracies, this approach was instantiated in partnership with Ms Smith and her high school writing classroom. The partnership engaged new media in order to appropriate and develop learner-generated designs in classroom spaces. |
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| Keywords: | new media Latino youth funds of knowledge high school classroom collaboration |
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