Journal Article

Let the Young Gs Lead the Way

Rivera, Anthony, Reed, Samuel A.

2019

Overview

In this issue’s In Dialogue, our featured contributors reflect on challenges and opportunities of media literacy relating to digital technologies, particularly in current times of division. These pieces discuss the experiences of English educators, researchers, and students, and offer frameworks for how people might teach and learn about digital and media literacies in this era. We begin with a dialogic piece between Samuel A. Reed III and his former student Anthony Rivera, reflecting real ways educators and students individually and collaboratively learn and grow in these times of simultaneous connective possibilities and divisive realities. Megan Boler continues the conversation by highlighting ways digital manipulations—of data, emotions, and more—necessitate a pedagogy of discomfort to directly and meaningfully unpack experiences in and with digital media. We end with a call by Antero Garcia to turn toward the analog and the local to intervene as justice-oriented literacy educators, as the digital further complicates oppressions and inequities.

• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
• Subject: Audiences / Curricula / Elementary Secondary Education / Empowerment / Humanities / In Dialogue: Media / Independent Study / Learning / Minority groups / Motion picture directors & producers / Social Media / Social networks / Students / Teachers / Young Adults