TY - GEN
T1 - Collaborating Online Through a Pandemic
T2 - 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2022
AU - Krishnamoorthy, Rishi
AU - Austin, Tasha
AU - Duncan, Ravit Golan
AU - Tan, Edna
AU - Reichsman, Frieda
AU - Smithen, Burrell
AU - Joshi, Jaya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Since spring of 2020, our 'new normal' world pivoted towards online spaces. This changed where formal teaching and learning interactions unfolded, and also shifted the conditions for participation in teaching, learning and research activities calling into question how and where inequitable power dynamics are (re)produced in these 'new' spaces. In this paper, we reflect on the affordances and constraints of community-engaged research with middle school youth in online virtual design meeting 'rooms.' Drawing on critical postmodern and queer feminist constructions of space, the university researchers explicitly worked towards Rightful Presence when structuring and facilitating the online design meeting room. We argue that virtual spaces are not neutral and are shaped through settled power dynamics that can further (re)produce inequitable conditions for participating and/or open new possibilities for disrupting settled adult-youth powered relations by both youth and adults.
AB - Since spring of 2020, our 'new normal' world pivoted towards online spaces. This changed where formal teaching and learning interactions unfolded, and also shifted the conditions for participation in teaching, learning and research activities calling into question how and where inequitable power dynamics are (re)produced in these 'new' spaces. In this paper, we reflect on the affordances and constraints of community-engaged research with middle school youth in online virtual design meeting 'rooms.' Drawing on critical postmodern and queer feminist constructions of space, the university researchers explicitly worked towards Rightful Presence when structuring and facilitating the online design meeting room. We argue that virtual spaces are not neutral and are shaped through settled power dynamics that can further (re)produce inequitable conditions for participating and/or open new possibilities for disrupting settled adult-youth powered relations by both youth and adults.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85145778061
T3 - Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS
SP - 1505
EP - 1508
BT - International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All
A2 - Chinn, Clark
A2 - Tan, Edna
A2 - Chan, Carol
A2 - Kali, Yael
PB - International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
Y2 - 6 June 2022 through 10 June 2022
ER -