Roundtable with Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen
Dr. Kumpulainen’s PowerPoint slides from the event can be found here: Kumpulainen (2019) Children’s digital literacy practices
The DLC roundtable session with Dr. Kristiina Kumpulainen took place on November 13th between 12-1 pm.
For this event, we invited the attendees to read her recent publication for the discussion.
Kumpulainen, P. K., & Gillen, J. (2019). Young children’s digital literacy practices in homes: Past, present and future research directions. In R. Flewitt, O. Erstad, B. Kuemmerling-Melbauer and I. Pereira (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood. London: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203730638/chapters/10.4324/9780203730638-7
Kristiina Kumpulainen, PhD, is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Scientific Director of the Playful Learning Center of the University of Helsinki. She also co-leads the Learning, Culture and Interventions (LECI) research community. Her research centres on socioculturally informed investigations into social interaction in human learning and education, agency and identity, and children’s digital literacy practices, creativity and literacy learning in homes, communities and educational institutions. Her ongoing research projects include Learning by making: The educational potential of school-based makerspaces for young learners’ digital competencies (iMake) funded by the Academy of Finland (2017-20), the Joy of learning multiliteracies funded by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (2016-20) and Digital mdiation of children’s interactions with the more than human world funded by Australian Research Council (2019-2023). She also chairs the Nordic Research Network on Digitalising Childhoods funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
L&L Special Issue on Equity in Digital Literacies
A special issue of the open access journal, Language and Literacy, emanated from this unique, jointly-sponsored conference held at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Education in spring 2016 that brought together international scholars, Canadian scholars, and local community educators to address issues of (in)equities of digital literacies in homes, schools, and communities locally and across the world. As researchers at UBC and Simon Fraser University, the editors wanted to develop an archive of the many ways that educators are and should be responsive to the various constraints as well as the possibilities for engaging people in meaningful digital language and literacy practices. This rich archive includes a range of papers from scholars and practitioners.
You can access the full journal issue here: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/issue/view/1944/galley
This special issue was based on the Equity in Digital Literacies: Access, Ethics & Engagement conference took place on May, 2016. Videos of keynote presentations can be found here: http://bit.ly/EquityInDigitalLiteraciesKeynotes
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DLC Roundtable Session with Dr. Christoph Hafner
DLC Roundtable Session with Dr. Christoph Hafner
Attention in (Digital) Literacy
Digital Literacy Centre at the Department of Language and Literacy Education is honored to host Roundtable with Dr. Christoph Hafner on the topic of Attention in (Digital) Literacy.
As Dr. Hafner writes in the introduction for Attention Structures in Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction (2012), “digital tools provide us with new ways to structure our attention and allow us to distribute attention across different activities and interactions” (p.82). What challenges does the new digital age pose for educators across different contexts? How can we harness the potential of the digital to capture and sustain our students’ diminishing attention spans? Three experts of the Digital Literacy Centre sit down with Dr. Hafner to try and answer these and other questions from the audience.
The event is free and open to the public
When: November 16th, 2017 12-1.30pm
Where: Digital Literacy Centre, Room 1226, Research Commons, Ponderosa Commons Oak House, 6445 University Boulevard
Dr. Christoph A. Hafner is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests are: specialized discourse, digital literacies, and language learning and technology. He is co-author (with Rodney Jones) of Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction (Routledge, 2012), and co-editor (with Rodney Jones and Alice Chik) of Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing Discourse Analysis in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2015).