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• Explore Locally, Excel Digitally

A Participatory learning-oriented after-school
program for enriching citizenship on- and offline
Laurel Felt felt_at_usc.edu USC Annenberg
Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative
Projects Symposium April 11, 2012
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Los Angeles Unified School District
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Inadequacies
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• 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).
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Participatory Culture
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Collaborate CirculateConnect Create
4Cs
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New Media Literacies
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• Play
• Performance
• Networking
• Collective Intelligence
• Appropriation
• Judgment
• Distributed Cognition
• Multitasking
• Transmedia Navigation
• Simulation
• Visualization
• Negotiation

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Research Questions
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• 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?

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Site
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Participants
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Pedagogy
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Design
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Hard and soft skills
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NML skills
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Play
Negotiation
Visualization
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Social and emotional skills
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Reflection skills
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Hard vs. soft skills
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Limitations
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• Assessment challenges
• Outsiders
• Attendance

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Future Research
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Acknowledgements
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• 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_at_usc.edu
• laurelfelt.org