Explore Locally, Excel Digitally:

Laurel Felt | felt@usc.edu USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Projects Symposium

April 11, 2012

A Participatory learning-oriented after-school program for enriching

citizenship on- and offline

Los Angeles Unified School DistrictDiscover. Learn. Teach.

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InadequaciesDiscover. Learn. Teach.

Content

Time

Participation

The participation gap refers to “the unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youth for full participation in the world of tomorrow” (Jenkins, Purushotma, Clinton, Weigel, & Robison, 2006, p. 3).

Participatory CultureDiscover. Learn. Teach.

4Cs

New Media LiteraciesDiscover. Learn. Teach.

• Play• Performance• Networking• Collective Intelligence• Appropriation• Judgment• Distributed Cognition• Multitasking• Transmedia Navigation• Simulation• Visualization• Negotiation

Research QuestionsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

RQ1. What is the impact of an after-school program on high school students’ levels of:a. digital literacy skills?

b. new media literacies (NML) proficiency?

c. social and emotional learning (SEL) competence?

RQ2. How can an after-school program for high school students facilitate a culture of “participatory learning”?

RQ3. How have participants accepted or transformed our learning goals for this educational program?

Explore Locally, Excel DigitallyDiscover. Learn. Teach.

SiteDiscover. Learn. Teach.

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ParticipantsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

PedagogyDiscover. Learn. Teach.

DesignDiscover. Learn. Teach.

“Hard” and “soft” skillsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

NML skillsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

PlayNegotiation

Visualization

Social and emotional skillsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

Reflection skillsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

Hard vs. soft skillsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

LimitationsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

Assessment challenges

Outsiders

Attendance

Future ResearchDiscover. Learn. Teach.

AcknowledgementsDiscover. Learn. Teach.

• Henry Jenkins• Erin Reilly• Vanessa Vartabedian• Ioana Literat• Ritesh Mehta• Akifa Khan• Kirsten Carthew• Jane Kagon• Erickson Raif• Rich Wu

• ELED participants• RFK Community Schools• RFK-LA• USC Annenberg Innovation Lab• USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism• USC Annenberg Fellowship Program• Project New Media Literacies

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Questions? Comments!

Laurel Felt

felt@usc.edu

laurelfelt.org