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Families Learning Together: Building Inclusion by Design #777

Closed mozfest-bot closed 6 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

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[ Session Name ] Families Learning Together: Building Inclusion by Design [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Sean Justice [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Texas State University, San Marcos [ Submitter's Github ] @seanjustice

[ Additional facilitators ] Robert Friedman

What will happen in your session?

Families Learning Together (FLT) is a digital inclusion project in Central Texas that teaches web literacy by making AR/VR stories and games. In this session, we are digging for the essential questions that can inform educational pathways and illuminate learning thresholds that invite AR/VR communities to emerge. FLT takes an ecological approach to inclusion: literacy isn’t solely an individual accomplishment but a way of being that takes root in communities of learners. Rather than position learners as isolated individuals, we design side-by-side learning—kids, families, and teachers together. How this works in practice depends on holding individual and communal expertise as interwoven, a condition that challenges standard teaching and learning. FLT invites curious, fearless voices to join our conversation.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

FLT wants to draw out and materialize the affect of networked collaboration by identifying indicators of inclusion. This goal is fueled by an odd question: What do connectivity, responsibility, interactivity, and fluency feel like? We think the answer to that question informs our approach to digital openness and web literacy. For instance, in reading education, fluency weaves together multiple, diverse practices, including written and spoken discourse, social identity, gender, and affect—an approach that helps educators navigate through and intervene in educational space. How might this approach be enacted in AR/VR communities that depend on special skill-sets to drive innovation? What do we do with “individual” expertise in distributed ecologies of learning? This paradox drives our need to know.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

None.

Time needed

90 mins

kenyatta1 commented 6 years ago

Unfortunately we didn't think this session was quite right for the Digital Inclusion space this year. I'm removing the milestone to allow other spaces to consider your proposal.

EPIKhub commented 6 years ago

@seanjustice - if we was not able to offer a travel and accomodation stipend would you still be able to attend?

seanjustice commented 6 years ago

@EPIKhub -- unfortunately my university travel budget has been cut so I would not be able to attend without the assistance. I'm sorry about that.

EPIKhub commented 6 years ago

@seanjustice thank you for the update

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

Thank you for taking the time to submit a session to MozFest. Due to the high level of submissions, we’re unable to accept all proposals and unfortunately, your session was not part of the final group.

Thank you for taking the time to submit and we will follow up on email very soon.