1. Kids Teaching Kids: Web Design & Peer Learning at a Public Library Digital Media & Learning Conference, Boston, MA March 8, 2014 Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas jvickery.com jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu @JacVick

2. AccessLiteracies Participation Gap

4. Access LiteraciesIdentification

5. “One of the most urgent challenges regarding technology, diversity, and equity is the need to expand digital literacy; that is, the development of young people’s capacity not only to access and use digital media but to use digital media in ways that create more enhanced and more empowered expressions of learning, creative expression, and civic engagement.” - S. Craig Watkins

6. Blogging HTML / CSS Geeking out

7. Blogging HTML / CSS Geeking out

8. Blogging HTML / CSS Geeking out Teach others

9. Confidence “In today’s world, knowing how to code is a skill that will be useful in many fields. When a child learns to code, he or she is learning a skill that can give him or her the confidence to say, ‘I have something to offer.’ Becoming more literate in technology can allow kids to help out their peers, family, teacher, and beyond.”

10. Free Web Design Workshop for Kids at the Public Library

11. “Learning becomes both a personal and unique trajectory through a complex space of opportunities and a social journey as one shares aspects of that trajectory with others (who may be very different from oneself and inhabit otherwise quite different spaces).” James Paul Gee

12. Learn Teach Explore Affinity Space

20. “For interest-driven learning to work, you need mentors…The role of the mentor is to get you to discover things you might not actually know you were interested in, to confront topics you may not be very good at understanding, but once discovered, you will.” - John Seely Brown

21. Interest- Driven Identity Expression Youth led / peer-to- peer Production centered & informal

23. “My youngest liked adding images to her website, my eldest liked giving commands to the computer.” - Mom

24. “Thank you for offering this opportunity to the children; looking forward to anything else you would offer through the library. Understanding how a computer works is a step in the right direction.” - Mom

27. Technology Help Others

28. Technology Helping others

29. Computer & Web Competencies Creative & Design Literacy IdentificationPeer-to-peer Discourse

30. Digital Literacies & Participation Institutional Support Peer-to PeerProduction Interest- driven Youth-led

31. References Chaplin, H. (2012). Spotlight on Digital Media Learning: Q&A with John Seely Brown: http://spotlight.macfound.org/featured- stories/entry/john-seely-brown-on-interest-driven-learning-mentors-and- play/. Gee, J. P. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces. In Barton & Tusting (Eds.) Beyond communities of practice language power and social context, Cambridge University Press, 214-232. Vickery, J. (2014). Youths Teaching Youths. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 57(5), 361-365. Craig Watkins, S. (2011). Digital divide: Navigating the digital edge. International Journal of Learning & Media, 3(2), 1-12.

32. Kids Teaching Kids: Web Design & Peer Learning at a Public Library Digital Media & Learning Conference, Boston, MA March 8, 2014 Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Radio, Television, & Film University of North Texas jvickery.com jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu @JacVick