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Showing 1 to 20 of 243 for “"literacies"”.
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Creative AI Literacies for Families
… roles in helping their children develop AI literacies and identify how best to support families in engaging in creative learning activities with and about AI while proposing recommendations for future family-centered AI literacies resources. To guarantee that diverse families can realize …
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Multimodality And The Sociality Of Literacies: Shaping First-Year Writing Students’ Literacies Through Multimodal Approaches
… focuses on approaches to developing multimodal literacies through social semiotics, digital modes of communication, and multiliteracies. Intentionally developing these literacies opens the door for first-year writing students to build upon social discourses in which they already engage and …
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Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival
… forces. Despite critical scholarship on the literacies of both Black and queer communities, there has been limited research that brings together these two perspectives and bodies of research. The foundation of my study is based on audio/video interviews and participant observation: I …
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Academic literacies in policy and practice
… studies (Fairclough, 2001, 2003) and academic literacies (Lea & Street, 2006; Lillis, 2001) to investigate how broader social and institutional contexts influence specific academic literacy practices reported by university students and staff. My analysis reveals that academic literacy practices …
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Indians and immigrants: Survivance stories of literacies
<p>This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.</p><p>This project stems from my mixedblood heritage and from a community of mixedblood scholars. In this text, I relate stories of the early colonization of Southern New England, of the zones of contact between whites (primarily …
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Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacies in Architecture Studio Classes
… rhetorical pedagogy, and the pedagogy of multiliteracies developed by the New London Group of multimodal literacy theorists. Analysis of the data reveals a shifting relationship between verbal and visual literacies across the arc of the program. First, verbal literacy practices scaffold the …
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Cuento literacies: Multigenerational storytelling in a Chicane family
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Academic Literacies as Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts
… their subjectivities. In addition, the academic literacies model of writing in higher education does not take into consideration the crisis of representation, in the sense of how one writes. I employed a case study methodology. I also undertook document analysis of several disruptive …
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Choices Made By Elementary Teachers When Implementing Digital Literacies
The purpose of this study was to determine what types of choices teachers make when choosing technology to implement in their ELA instruction. A funneling approach was used to collect the data over a period of six weeks. Sixteen teachers were anonymously surveyed followed by four teacher …
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Digital literacies in high schools within uMhlathuze Local Municipalities
The concept of digital competence is central to this study and can be broadly defined as skills, knowledge, creativity, and attitudes that everybody needs to use digital media for learning and functioning in the knowledge society. It is undeniable that we live in an information age in which …
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Digital Literacies for International Teacher Education: a Ghanaian perspective
… is known about how teachers develop digital literacies to enable them to effectively use these new resources, nor the ways in which student teachers are introduced to the technologies they need to support their professional development. Given the scarcity of research in this area and with …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… consequences of the rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed …
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Talk about Texts: Interactional Literacies in Second Language Learning
… with texts, have been found to dominate multiliteracies second language instruction, often at the expense of activities that involve conceptualizing, analyzing, and applying. Recent analyses and critiques of the multiliteracies framework reveal several implications of this shortcoming, …
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Legitimate Differences, Expanding Literacies: Eight People Making Digital Videos
… in the evaluation of the shift to include multiliteracies in secondary classrooms. Using a participant-observer, qualitative study design, I described what six students said and did while creating digital videos for their high-school newspaper classroom. I discovered that some participants …
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Layering literacies: Computers and peer response in the 21st century
<p>Research into peer response work has a long history in the field of composition, and the work of my dissertation is to extend that research into the newer subfield of composition, computers and writing. Specifically I focus on the way students use multiple linguistic competencies (oral, print …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… and ethnographic approaches to academic literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, social practices and institutional power relations. The study offers a complex reading of the student experience focusing on the negotiation of …
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Local and translocal literacies in an urban 'village' : a sociolinguistic study.
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A socio-cultural approach to higher education students' experiences with academic literacies
… of students' engagement with academic literacies. The study is based on interview data, visual material and objects brought to these interviews by five students on an Education Studies undergraduate degree course. Drawing from the theoretical frame of New Literacy Studies, academic …
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Developing digital literacies: Engaging technical communication at an urban community technology center
… and practices as they develop their digital literacies at an urban community technology center (CTC) in the Southeastern United States. By taking an ethnographic and community-based approach to data collection and utilizing grounded theory for analysis, I found that learners engage in all …
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