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Incorporating Students' Digital Identities in Analog Spaces: The Educator's Conundrum

Incorporating Students' Digital Identities in Analog Spaces: The Educator's Conundrum
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Author(s): William J. Fassbender (The University of Georgia, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 12
Source title: Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Douglas Loveless (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Pamela Sullivan (James Madison University, USA), Katie Dredger (James Madison University, USA)and Jim Burns (Florida International University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch015

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Abstract

Multiliteracies has gained significant favor in the past two decades due to the increased popularity of technology. Educators are not only finding new and exciting ways to make content relatable to students by including their digital lives in the classroom, but now the digital experience of teens is the topic of classroom conversations. The inclusion of students' online identities has certain advantages, as many students may find the bridge between academic work and their out-of-school lives advantageous to their learning. However, educators need to give careful consideration of how to safely include students' digital identities into the classroom, as these online lives are often carefully crafted for their networking platforms and are not necessarily intended for analog, classroom spaces. Throughout this article, the author explores the ways in which teachers incorporate teens' online identities and troubles the notion that teachers can safely include these identities without co-opting their out-of-school online practices.

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