Equity in Digital Literacies: Access, Ethics and Engagement
These keynotes are part of a two-day closed conference. Funded by SSHRC, UBC SPARC, the Department of Language and Literacy Education, and LLED’s Digital Literacy Centre. Organized by Theresa Rogers, Jim Anderson, Ron Darvin (UBC) and Suzanne Smythe (SFU).
DLC Series: Beyond the Northwest Tree Octopus: Multimodal Visual analysis as key to critical digital literacy
Developing young people’s critical web literacy is of utmost significance, especially at a time when there is such ease of accessibility to the Internet. Because of this, some scholars and most curricular documents urge educators to teach young people to be critical navigators and consumers of the web.
DLC Series: Language and Literacy on the Frontiers of Digital Poetry
How is digital media transforming language? The poet-programmer Jim Andrews has been navigating the frontiers of digital literacy since 1996. His site vispo.com is well-known in the international circles of electronic literature as an innovative centre of interactive, multimedia poetry, essays on language and technology, and generative art.
DLC Talks: Digital Literacies and the Public Voice of Girls in Social Activism
Located in girlhood studies as a discipline and with reference to Girlhood Studies, the journal, this presentation seeks to deepen an understanding of the relationship between new literacies and age-old issues related to how the voice of girls and young women has long been silenced collectively and individually.
Improving both Science and Literacy through integrated Science & Literacy Instruction
DLC Talks Lecture by David Pearson, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley Monday, June 15. time: Noon – 1:00pm At DLC: Ponderosa F 103