“Language not just as words”: Supporting new literacies through a design project in disadvantaged schools in Chile

2020 ◽  
pp. 204275302098216
Author(s):  
Patricia Thibaut ◽  
Lucila Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
School Students ◽  
Disadvantaged Schools ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Everyday Classroom

Young people are increasingly connected in a digital and globalized world, but technology-mediated interactions alone do not necessarily lead to a culture of meaningful participation and meaning making processes. Students from disadvantaged contexts are especially vulnerable to this. Drawing on the Activity-Centred Analysis and Design framework this paper discusses a case study situated in disadvantaged schools in Chile. Phase 1 of the study revealed that high school students’ literacy practices in the everyday classroom mostly reflected low conceptual and procedural understanding of new literacies, confirming that these young learners enacted passive forms of technological use in and out-of-school spaces. Phase 2 of the study involved the development and implementation of a digital project at a Chilean school. Results offer insights on how alterations in tools, learning tasks, and social arrangements, led to reconfigured literacy practices. Findings also show that the relationship between access, use and outcomes is not straightforward, and students’ cultural capital varies, even in disadvantaged schools. Implications of the study stress the pivotal role of schools and the potential of well-orchestrated educational designs, for introducing and encouraging meaningful literacy practices, and for leveling up the access to the digital world.

After the Blackbird Whistles: Listening to Silence in Classrooms

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 2833-2849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Schultz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Talk ◽  
The Individual

Background/Context Students spend a large part of their time in schools in silence. However, teachers tend to spend most of their time attending to student talk. Anthropological and linguistic research has contributed to an understanding of silence in particular communities, offering explanations for students’ silence in school. This research raised questions about the silence of marginalized groups of students in classrooms, highlighting teachers’ role in this silencing and drawing on limited meanings of silence. More recently, research on silence has conceptualized silence as a part of a continuum. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study The purpose of this project was to review existing literature and draw on two longitudinal research studies to understand the functions and uses of silence in everyday classroom practice. I explore the question, How might paying attention to the productivity of student silence and the possibilities it contains add to our understanding of student silence in educational settings? Silence holds multiple meanings for individuals within and across racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. However, in schools, silence is often assigned a limited number of meanings. This article seeks to add to educators’ and researchers’ tools for interpreting classroom silence. Research Design The article is based on two longitudinal qualitative studies. The first was an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of high school students in a multiracial high school on the West Coast. This study was designed with the goal of learning about adolescents’ literacy practices in and out of school during their final year of high school and in their first few years as high school graduates. The second study documents discourses of race and race relations in a postdesegregated middle school. The goal of this 3-year study was to gather the missing student perspectives on their racialized experiences in school during the desegregation time period. Conclusions/Recommendations Understanding the role of silence for the individual and the class as a whole is a complex process that may require new ways of conceptualizing listening. I conclude that an understanding of the meanings of silence through the practice of careful listening and inquiry shifts a teacher's practice and changes a teacher's understanding of students’ participation. I suggest that teachers redefine participation in classrooms to include silence.

scholarly journals STEM- Based Multimedia Design for Stimulating HOTS in Theory Bioenergy and Wind Energy: Perception Physics Teacher

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-139
Author(s):  
Farah Aulia ◽  
◽  
Agus Suyatna ◽  
Viyanti Viyanti ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Wind Energy ◽  
Physics Education ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Energy Materials ◽  
School Students ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Physics Teacher ◽  
Two Stages

The purpose of thiis research is to develop multimedia with the STEM approach to stimulate HOTS on bioenergy and wind energy materials. The research and development (R&D) method uses the ADDIE design which consists of 5 step, namely: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. This article will only report the first two stages namely analysis and design. The instrument used was a product needs analysis questionnaire and a practitioner validation sheet using a Likert scale. The data source of the needs analysis phase is high school students and physics teachers in Lampung Province. Product design validation was carried out by professional physics-teacher teachers with a Masters in Physics Education qualification. Where data is collected via Google Form and analyzed using descriptive qualitative. The results showed that multimeEdia to stimulate HOTS on bioenergy and wind energy was needed in the field. Multimedia which has the potential to stimulate HOTS on bioenergy and wind energy materials consists of videos and simulation of bioenergy and wind energy plants that contain all STEM.

scholarly journals TECHNICAL PHENOMENA AS A MEANS OF FORMATION TECHNICAL LITERACY OF SCHOOLCHILDREN

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
Анатолій Іванчук ◽  
Анатолій Матвійчук
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
School Students ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Technical Literacy ◽  
Value Relations ◽  
Mechanical Transmissions

The article substantiates the expediency of using narratives about technical phenomena in mechanical transmissions in the profile education of high school students as a means of forming technical literacy. Based on the methodology of the activity approach and the narrative way of interpreting technical knowledge, it was found that the operation of semantic information of technical content is the main condition for its perception and understanding by students. It was found that the stimulation of meaning making contributes to the activation of the humanitarian potential of technical knowledge. To master the knowledge of technical phenomena by high school students, it is necessary to choose the subject of interpretation, to include it in specific story lines. Having understood the explanation of the plot lines, students will realize the value-semantic aspects and study a fragment of the modern technosphere. It is established that the narrative explanation of technical phenomena in mechanical transmissions as the main elements of drives of working machines is organically intertwined in the context of the cultural concept of technological education of schoolchildren. The main learning outcomes of students will include experience of cognitive activity, experience of reproductive activity, experience of creative activity, experience of emotional and value relations. Emotional-value relations are acquired using reflection. The attitude of students to the object of knowledge is one of the main conditions for the transformation of technical knowledge into beliefs, which serve as a guide in the perception of the phenomena of the technosphere and contribute to the solution of technical problems. Technical ideas, beliefs and values will form the basis of technical literacy of high school students.

scholarly journals Identity profiles and digital engagement among Finnish high school students

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus Mannerström ◽  
Lauri Hietajärvi ◽  
Joona Muotka ◽  
Katariina Salmela-Aro
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Digital Engagement ◽  
First Time ◽  
Identity Task

Developing a stable personal identity is considered a more precarious task in today’s society than hitherto. Skilful digital engagement may, however, constitute a valuable asset in necessary identity exploration and commitment. Applying a person-oriented approach, we examined for the first time how identity profiles are associated with digital engagement, operationalized as digital competence, gaming seriousness, type of internet activity and excessive ICT use. After controlling for gender, life satisfaction and parental SES, this study of a Finnish high school sample (N = 932) revealed that adolescents with future commitments and some exploration of options (achievement, searching moratorium) were the most advanced in digital skills and, in the former case, least prone to excessive ICT use. By contrast, adolescents desperately trying to solve the identity task (ruminative moratorium) scored highest on friendship-driven internet activity and excessive ICT use, whereas diffused individuals had the weakest digital competence. No differences between the profiles emerged regarding gaming and interest-driven internet activity. The results suggest that the digital world and related devices are purposeful tools for shaping and maintaining healthy identity commitments.

scholarly journals Digital Literacy of STEM Senior High School Students: Basis for Enhancement Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Hazel B. Baterna ◽  
Teodolyn Deanne G. Mina ◽  
Danilo Villar Rogayan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Senior High School Students

Digital literacy promotes students’ competitiveness and better opportunity in today’s digital world and in the fourth industrial revolution (FIRe). This descriptive-survey research determined the digital literacy of science, technology, engineering & mathematics (STEM) senior high school students. A total of 130 respondents from two state-owned public high schools in Zambales, Philippines answered the digital literacy survey questionnaire. Results revealed that a typical STEM respondent came from school B, aged between 15-17, female and currently Grade 11. The STEM students are digitally literate to some extent in terms of access and evaluation of information; utilization and management of information; media analysis; creation of media products; effective application of technology; and interaction through technology. There is a significant difference in the extent of digital literacy of students when grouped according to sex and grade level. Moderate significant relationship exists across all domains digital literacy. The study recommends the implementation of the proposed digital literacy working group to enhance students’ digital proficiency and to equip them with the challenges of the FIRe. Teachers may likewise utilize digital devices and information effectively and responsibly towards developing digitally literate citizens.

scholarly journals Do You Want to Tell Your Own Narrative?”: How One Teacher and Her Students Engage in Resistance by Leveraging Community Cultural Wealth

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda Martin-Beltrán ◽  
Angélica Montoya-Ávila ◽  
Andrés A. García ◽  
Nancy Canales
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
English Language ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Cultural Wealth ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Immigrant Narrative

This qualitative case study offers a window into one classroom in which one Latinx English language arts teacher and her newcomer high school students tapped into community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005) as they engaged in literacy practices to resist oppression, denounce discrimination, and strive for social justice. We draw upon Yosso’s (2005) framework of community cultural wealth (CCW) to understand how teachers can encourage resistance among historically marginalized students within the current racist and xenophobic political climate; and we examine how students respond to the teacher’s invitation to engage and develop their resistant capital through their writing. Data analyzed for this study include student letters, teacher interviews, and fieldnotes from one lesson, which was situated in a year-long ethnographic study. We found that the teacher cultivated resistant capital by tapping into students’ lived experiences to scrutinize oppressive rhetoric and persist in the face of adversity. Students seized the opportunity to resist the dominant anti-immigrant narrative by leveraging their resistant capital through counter-stories, assertions of experiential knowledge, and appeals to a moral imperative. Our study contributes to scholarship on CCW by exploring how CCW is utilized in a previously under-examined context and has implications for educators by offering examples of classroom practices that cultivate CCW and transform deficit discourses that threaten to impede academic success, especially among Latinx students.

scholarly journals Dispensing with formalities in art education research

1970 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Palmyre Pierroux
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Education Research ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Art History ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
School Students ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
History Classes

This article investigates how high school students master and appropriate concepts in aesthetics and modern art in art history classes and in art museums. It is argued that distinctions between schools and museums as places of formal and informal learning, respectively, are not useful analytical categories for understanding complex meaning making processes. 

Joaquin’s Refusal: An Embodied and Geographic Active Subjectivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Andrea Del Carmen Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Social History ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Body ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
School Students ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Trans Youth

This essay explores a Latinx, queer and trans, student’s resistance to a gender-neutral restroom at a high school in an agricultural community of the Central Coast of California. Through a close reading of a field note, I analyze Joaquin’s narrative of refusal to demonstrate how queer and trans youth engage in an active subjectivity (Lugones, 2003). For decolonial philosopher María Lugones (2003), an active subjectivity is the process through which oppressed communities become conscious and critical by engaging in a meaning-making process centered on their socialites. I argue that queer and trans high school students’ active subjectivity is in relation to their embodied knowledges and geographies. The body and space are both critical in learning to think in community and reflexively. Joaquin’s refusal of the restroom becomes useful in understanding how queer and trans youth tell narratives of their self, grounded in a social history capable of alternating the story told about space and place.

21st Century New Literacies and Digital Tools as Empowering Pedagogies for Urban Youth of Color

2014 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz ◽  
Marcelle M. Haddix
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
New Literacies ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Public High Schools ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Increasingly, more youth of color are gaining access to multiple forms of digital and popular media, yet 21st Century Literacies are virtually absent from the curriculum in most schools that serve them. By contrast, their increased knowledge of digital tools is usually met with restrictive access. For example, in many urban public high schools, cell phones are seen as contraband and students are required to “check” them at the door. Additionally, access to the Internet and social media platforms are blocked on most computers to which students have access while in school. More research is needed on how race, gender, ethnicity, and language intersect with access to digital tools in schools. This chapter presents a dialogue about the positive impact of using 21st Century New Literacies and digital tools with Black male middle and high school students. The authors highlight ways that teachers can effectively use digital tools in their classrooms.

Leading for literacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Schoenbach ◽  
Cynthia Greenleaf
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
District Leaders ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Reading Apprenticeship ◽  
Apprenticeship Program

Two-thirds of U.S. high school students today are unable to read and comprehend complex academic materials, think critically about texts, synthesize information from multiple sources, or effectively communicate what they have learned. And in response, many teachers simply stop assigning challenging texts, opting instead to “deliver content” through lectures. For 25 years, though, the Reading Apprenticeship program has shown that when school and district leaders embrace a collective responsibility to provide effective reading and writing instruction, they can help subject-area teachers reflect on their own literacy practices and fundamentally rethink their approach to literacy instruction.

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