Innovation from Below: Infrastructure, Design, and Equity in Literacy Classroom Makerspaces

Nichols, T. Philip

doi:10.58680/rte202030901

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Rethinking Availability in Multimodal Composing: Frictions in Digital Design

Nichols¹,

Johnston²

2020

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Multimodal composing using digital media has long emphasized forms of meaning making that extend beyond printed text to include a wider range of available semiotic resources. However, recent research has complicated this notion by highlighting how this availability does not follow inevitably from digital tools but arises from the interplay of their often invisible infrastructures (e.g., hardware, interfaces, algorithms, code). Using data from a technology‐rich humanities classroom, the authors explore three frictions that surfaced as students worked within and against these infrastructures to create a collaborative digital story. The authors show how attending to such frictions can open opportunities for inquiry and instruction related to the hidden infrastructures that condition multimodal composing in digital environments. Critical understandings of these infrastructures can support educators in creating more equitable conditions for multimodal literacy learning.

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Rethinking Availability in Multimodal Composing: Frictions in Digital Design

Nichols¹,

Johnston²

2020

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“Teníamos Hilo, Teníamos Tela, y Hacíamos Cosas”: Translingual Writing and Making in an Intergenerational Library Workshop

Machado,

Gonzales,

Plitkins

2023

Journal of Language, Identity & Education

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Platform Governance and Education Policy: Power and Politics in Emerging Edtech Ecologies

Nichols,

Dixon-Román

2024

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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This article develops a framework for understanding and analyzing the intermediary work of platform technologies, and their owners, as an emerging form of platform governance in educational systems. Our investigation is guided by two questions: (a) How do platform technologies shape policy by brokering relations among commercial, technical, and educational actors? And (b) how might these relations contribute to, or compromise, educational equity as they are folded into existing governance regimes? We address these questions by bringing together two critical orientations—critical policy analysis and critical platform studies—to map the power and politics of platformization in and across education systems.

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Innovation from Below: Infrastructure, Design, and Equity in Literacy Classroom Makerspaces

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Rethinking Availability in Multimodal Composing: Frictions in Digital Design

Rethinking Availability in Multimodal Composing: Frictions in Digital Design

“Teníamos Hilo, Teníamos Tela, y Hacíamos Cosas”: Translingual Writing and Making in an Intergenerational Library Workshop

Platform Governance and Education Policy: Power and Politics in Emerging Edtech Ecologies

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