Curation for Student Centered Learning in Urban Schools

Instead of telling students to check their smartphones at the door, what if educators embraced students’ access to devices, social media, websites, and videos as an empowering means to curate their own literacy learning? This webinar for teacher educators, scholars, middle and high school teachers, and curriculum leaders will cover the implications of literacy work in the areas of digital curation and fandom, particularly work that is set in urban high schools.
Literacy scholar William Kist, a professor emeritus at Kent State University and author of the new book Curating a Literacy Life (Teachers College Press, 2022), spent four years working as an instructional coach at Cleveland’s Glenville High School where he developed projects and assessments for the urban classroom that make use of students’ digital literacies. Dr. Kist will be joined in conversation by the celebrated media scholar Henry Jenkins, who brings decades of work in the areas of fan culture and comics, and by Shannon Davis and Ga-Vita Haynes, Cleveland teachers and contributors to Curating a Literacy Life, who will share the work they are currently doing with students to bridge the gap between in-school and out-of-school literacies.