Blaine Smith
Associate Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning
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Digital literacies, AI school integration, Multimodality
Blaine Smith is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Teaching and Learning who teaches courses on secondary English education, digital literacies, and multilingual education. Blaine’s research examines bi- and multilingual adolescents’ digital literacies across contexts, with special attention to their multimodal composing processes and products. The main goals of her work are to understand how collaborative multimodal composing can foster literacy and content learning and be an empowering means of expression for youth. Her scholarship also focuses on developing scaffolded instructional strategies for supporting teachers’ integration of technology in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Additionally, she works to design innovative multimodal methods for capturing, analyzing, and representing youth’s complex digital literacies.