Analysing the Construction of Modal Configurations with Mediating Digital Texts in the Classroom

Adams, Jonathon

doi:10.1515/mc-2015-0001

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“…The common motivation across these studies was to understand the complex nature of digital literacy practices and the elements À social and material À that facilitate their unfolding in classroom spaces. Research was carried out in three uniquely different classroom contexts: a UK further education college (Bhatt 2013(Bhatt , 2014a(Bhatt , 2014b, a Japanese University (Adams 2013), and an US 6th grade classroom (de Roock 2015).…”

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Diving deep into digital literacy: emerging methods for research

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Roock

Adams

2015

Language and Education

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Literacy studies approaches have tended to adopt a position which enables ethnographic explorations of a wide range of 'literacies'. An important issue arising is the new challenge required for researchers to capture, manage, and analyse data that highlight the unique character of practices around texts in digital environments. Such inquiries, we argue, require multiple elements of data to be captured and analysed as part of effective literacy ethnographies. These include such things as the unfolding of digital texts, the activities around them, and features of the surrounding social and material environment. This paper addresses these methodological issues drawing from three educationally focused studies, and reporting their experiences and insights within uniquely different contexts. We deal with the issue of adopting new digital methods for literacy research through the notion of a 'deep dive' to explore educational tasks in classrooms. Through a discussion of how we approached the capture and analysis of our data, we present methods to better understand digital literacies in education. We then outline challenges posed by our methods, how they can be used more broadly for researching interaction in digital environments, and how they augment transdisciplinary debates and trends in research methods.

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“…We now return to the vignette account at the start of the paper, and explore some of its insights in more depth, augmented by selected elements from two other studies (Adams 2013;de Roock 2015) in order to explicate how such findings are representative of the insights which can emerge through the kind of close examination we propose.…”

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