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200765MikaSession 6.5: Using Digital Technologies to See and Hear Students’ Literacies
Jenn Fishman (University of Tennessee), Stacey Pigg (Michigan State University), Bump Halbritter (Michigan State University), Julie Lindquist (Michigan State University), Serkan Gorkemli (Stanford University) Julie Lindquist and Bump Halbritter, Michigan State University: “The Literacy Corps Project: Researching and Documenting Literate Lives of Michigan Students” The Literacy Corps project, proposed and discussed by Lindquist and Halbritter, is the beginning of an ambitious project. The project builds on the idea of Story Corps, which is a national project designed to help people record interviews with loved ones. Lindquist and Halbritter are not just looking at audio recordings, but at making documentary films that record individual stories with the purpose of discovering how literacies are formed. They will examine all literacies, not merely the ability to read and write, to study how competencies are formed in a broad range of skills, such as music literacy. Their approach to literacy studies is influenced by Deborah Brandt’s work, Literacy in American Lives, which chronicles 80 individuals born from 1885 to 1985. The documentary format will allow them to not only research and document an individual’s literacy practices, but also to record their dialects and language use. Reference Brandt, D. (2001). Literacy in American Lives. Edinburgh: Cambridge UP.
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