‘socialcontext’
City Settlers
Jul. 16, 2024—City Settlers is a multiplayer city management game/simulation intended to convey complex ideas embedded in enacted social play configurations and moves around sustainable development. Additionally, we are currently extending it through multimodal data platforms for supporting rich real time teacher and learner orchestration tools, as well as pathways to support cross domain learning connecting city...
Critical Computing
Jun. 11, 2024—Although elementary school-aged children use and have interest in technologies with integrated Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, they rarely critically investigate the sociopolitical contexts in which people consume and produce AI technology. Without engaging in this form of critical computing, elementary school students will not be prepared to participate ethically in a digitally reliant society and...
Participatory Quantitative Ethnography
Jun. 11, 2024—Participatory quantitative ethnography has emerged as QE scholars have recognized the need to support equitable researcher-participant relations in the co-construction of knowledge. Calls for imagining and designing possibilities for such collaboration agree on the potential of already existing tools, such as Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA), within QE. Traditionally, ENA has been used by researchers as...
TRANSLATE
Jun. 7, 2024—TRANSLATE (Teaching Reading And New Strategic Language Approaches To Emergent bilinguals) is an instructional approach that provides teachers with the means to access all of the language of their students learning English. In TRANSLATE, students are taught to identify key excerpts from language arts texts and to use selected cognitive, linguistic and social strategies to...