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Advancing open-access research at the intersection of ELA, teacher education, and digital technologies | NCTE/ELATE | Editor: Brad Robinson @bradrobinson.bsky.social Editorial Assistant: Allie Thrall @alliethrall.bsky.social
📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Caitlin Donovan, Janell Miller, and Hannah Moehrke write on “Potent Pedagogy for Critical Engagement: Music Videos as Texts in Secondary English Classrooms.” Check it out!
📚New Pub! From our guest edited special issue series on Digital Texts and How to Teach Them, Beth Krone and Patricia Enciso write on “Tracing 'My Hero Academia’ Fandom Composing Practices in a Seventh-Grade Superhero Storytelling Project.” Check it out!
Check out our guest editors’ @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, and @rabani.bsky.social editorial introduction to our new special issue series, outlining “The Complexities of Teaching with Digital Texts for ELA Teachers and Teacher Educators”!
📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, Emily Plummer Catena and F. Blake Tenore write on “Examining Educators’ Social Media Use to Support Digital, Civically Engaged English Teaching”. Check it out!
📚New Pub! Kicking off our guest edited special issue series on digital texts and how to teach them, @mraleosays.bsky.social writes on “Pixels, Prose, and Literary Knowledge Production: Cultivating Aesthetic Literacies Through Audiovisual Essay Composing”. Check it out!
This recognition, awarded by the Digital Literacies in Teacher Education / ELATE Commission, gives momentum to the collaborative work happening at the intersections critical research, practice, and edtech. CITE is proud to help share this brilliant and important work!
For 3 years, they have been building this work with an incredible network of educators and researchers, curating mentor texts, tools, class resources, and academic research on digital media. Our forthcoming CITE special issue, “Digital Texts and How to Teach Them,” highlights this scholarship.
Congrats to our guest editors @karismjones.bsky.social, @sarahejerasa.bsky.social, @rabani.bsky.social and contributor @mraleosays.bsky.social for receiving the National Technology Leadership Initiative Fellowship for their project "Digital Texts and How to Teach Them: #HackYourStack Initiative."
📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, @justmaybechris.bsky.social, Cherise McBride, and
@anna-phd.bsky.social
write on “The (Im)Possibilities of ‘Creating Digital Living Rooms’: A Black Educational Studies Perspective on Digital Platforms in Teacher Education”. Check it out!
📚New Pub! Contributing to our special issue series, Dominique McDaniel and Matthew Osborn write “From Platforms to Pedagogy: Exploring How Youth’s Social Media Practices Can Shape Teacher Education Through Culturally Digitized Pedagogy.” Check it out!
The final issue of our series on critical perspectives on digital platforms in ELA teacher education is published. We are so grateful to all of our brilliant contributors. Check it out!
Catena examines how ELA teacher educators can draw on productive tensions to surface critical orientations toward canonicity and digital platforms.
📚 Check out another new pub from our special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Teachers’ Orientations Toward Texts and Tools: Critical (Re)Consideration of a Remix and Restory Assignment as a Teacher Educator."
In it, Burriss, Smith, Shimizu, Hundley, Pendergrass, & Molvig consider future educators’ ethical concerns about AI to offer pathways to incorporate or resist the use of AI models in the classroom.
📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: “Exploring Ethics of Multimodal Composition with AI: Student and Educator Perspectives on Evaluating and Using Generative Models in the Classroom."
📚 And another: "Empowering ELA Teachers: Recommendations for Teacher Education in the AI Era" from Kennedy & Castek reveals how teachers are often positioned as objects rather than decision-makers in AI discourse.
Read here: tinyurl.com/sza442zb
📚 From our ongoing special issue series on digital platforms in ELA teacher education: "Becoming a Teacher of Writing in an AI-Assisted World" by Kershen & Johnson examines the need for stronger theoretical perspectives on teacher identity re: AI writing platforms.
Read more: tinyurl.com/2vcfrk6z
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