2024 Civics of Tech AERA Digest
If you are part of the Civics of Technology community, we'd like to highlight your work at AERA! This is our AERA Digest for Civics of Technology which includes community members' sessions as well as scholarship that aligns with our aim to advance technology education for just futures. If you would like to share a session for the digest, please complete this form.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
9:00 a.m.
Civic Learning With, Within, and Against Digital Platforms
This is a symposium featuring several members of the Civics of Technology community. The paper titles and presenters are noted below.
Teaching Digital Citizens: Civic Education in the Platform Society
T. Philip Nichols, Kevin R. Magill, Alexandra Thrall
Resist! Refuse! How Educators Care for Students by Opposing Educational Technology’s Harms
Michelle Ciccone, Charles Logan
Raising Critical Tech Consciousness
Daniel G. Krutka, Marie K. Heath, Jacob Pleasants
Fighting for Liberation: Uncovering Literacies of Abolitionist Worldbuilding in the Digital Fighting Game Community
Kia Turner, Antero Garcia
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Level 3, Room 304
Engaging with the Past: Archival Photographs as Tools for Data and Analysis in Rural Middle School Social Studies (Poster 2)
Michael Berson, Debra Bernstein, TERC, Eric Hochberg, TERC, Santiago Gasca, TERC, Rebecca Dovi, CodeVA, Kristen Franklin, CodeVA, Valerie Fawley, CodeVA, Perry Shank, CodeVA, David Reider, Education Design, Inc.
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 115B
10:50 a.m.
Critical feminisms as pedagogical spaces for humanizing online teaching and learning
Enilda Romero-Hall, Aras Bozkurt, Catharyn Crane Shelton, Chloe Ruab
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 1
2:30 p.m.
Speculative Frictions: Literacy, AI, and Civic Imagination
T. Philip Nichols, Alexandra Thrall, Kevin R. Magill
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Level 200, Exhibit Hall B
4:20 p.m.
What is Technoskepticism: Drawing on Media Ecology and Critical Theory
Marie K. Heath, Daniel G. Krutka, Jacob Pleasants
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall B, Table 9
Friday, April 12, 2024
11:25 a.m.
Ethical Imperatives and Pedagogical Potentials: AI Integration and Primary Source Analysis in Early Childhood and Elementary Education
Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 11
4:00-5:30 p.m.
Civics of Technology Meet-up!
All are welcome! RSVP encouraged
Bar-Ly 101 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Saturday, April 13, 2024
9:35 a.m.
Fostering Digital Well-being Among Young Children: A Multi-stakeholder Examination of Cybersafety Strategies in Chinese Preschools
Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson, Wenwei Luo, Huihua He
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Franklin 12
11:25 a.m.
Interrogating how teachers search for, decide to download, and review online educational resource marketplace materials
Catharyn Crane Shelton and Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 4, Room 410
Sunday, April 14, 2024
7:45 a.m.
Fragments of the Past: Exploring Multimodal Creative Inquiry in Early Childhood with AI-Powered Painting (Poster 31)
Ilene R. Berson, Michael J. Berson
Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 200, Exhibit Hall A
1:15 p.m.
AI Platforms and Writing Instruction: Educational Equity in New Learning Ecologies
T. Philip Nichols, Amy Stornaiuolo, Jennifer Higgs, Robert Jean LeBlanc, Roberto de Roock
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Level 3, Room 304