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Sunday May 15th, 4:00-5:30 – Julian Sefton-Green
Keynote address Julian Sefton-Green From Othering to Incorporation: Theoretical, Ethical and Practical Dilemmas in Crossing Informal and Formal Learning Boundaries This paper is situated in debates about the relationships between formal and informal learning and ways that both domains have … Continue reading
Tuesday May 17th, 10:45-12:00 – Closing Panel featuring John Willinsky
Closing Panel of conference, featuring keynote speakers and conference organizers reflecting on workshop: Kathy Sanford, Theresa Rogers, Maureen Kendrick, John Willinsky, Victoria Carrington, Julian Sefton-Green, and Mastin Prinsloo
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Tuesday May 17th, 9:00-10:30 – Group 3c
9:00-10:30 Victoria Carrington (in Room 203, upstairs) Kathy Hibbert The Salty Chip: A Canadian Multiliteracies Collaborative Today’s education system faces irrelevance unless we bridge the gap between how students live and how they learn. Multiliteracies teaching and research engages numerous … Continue reading
Tuesday May 17th, 9:00-10:30 – Group 2c
9:00-10:30 Mastin Prinsloo (in Room 201, upstairs) Lauryn Oates Teachers as Publishers? Closing the Content Gap for Local Language Materials with ICT in Northern Uganda This paper seeks to share ways in which computer literacy among teachers in Gulu (northern … Continue reading
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Tuesday May 17th, 9:00-10:30 – Group 1c
9:00-10:30 Julian Sefton-Green (in DLC, main meeting room) Leanna Madill ‘My Son Isn’t Reading!?’ Parents Consider the Legitimacy of Videogames for Adolescents Most parents of adolescent videogame players have not experienced the innovations of technologies and media in school settings, … Continue reading
Monday May 16th, 3:15-4:30 – Mastin Prinsloo
Keynote address Mastin Prinsloo The New Literacies as Placed Resources in a Globalized World It is common cause that changes in technology, institutions, media, the economy and the rapid movement toward global scale in manufacture, finance and communications have affected … Continue reading
Monday May 16th, 1:30-3:00 – Group 3b
1:30-3:00 Victoria Carrington (in Room 203, upstairs) Shelley Peterson Teaching Writing Using Digital Technologies in Canadian Classrooms: Assumptions and Instructional Practices New literacies theory was used to examine the assumptions and writing instructional practices of 192 grades 4-8 teachers across … Continue reading
Monday May 16th, 1:30-3:00 – Group 2b
1:30-3:00 Mastin Prinsloo (in Room 201, upstairs) Bonny Norton Language Teachers as Language Planners: Grassroots Literacy in Uganda In recent research, scholars have argued persuasively that much research on language policy needs to include studies on the everyday contexts in … Continue reading
Monday May 16th, 1:30-3:00 – Group 1b
1:30-3:00 Julian Sefton-Green (in DLC – Main Meeting Room) Kathy Sanford Complexities of Gaming Cultures: Adolescent Gamers Adapting and Transforming Learning Three years ago this ethnographic research study of eleven adolescent gamers began in a response to social concern regarding … Continue reading
Monday May 16th, 10:30-12:00 – Group 3a
10:30-12:00 Victoria Carrington (in Room 203, upstairs) Lori McIntosh ‘Can We Play Fun Gay?’: Disjuncture and Difference, and the Precarious Mobilities of Millennial Queer Youth Narratives This paper takes up the complex project of unthinking neoliberal accounts of a progressive … Continue reading