Session 5 Paper Presentations 3:30 - 4:00 pm

1. Digital PBL: Collaborative learning and website building (LeChase 103)

Christopher Nazzaro (nazzaroc@newschool.edu)

The New School

Project-Based Learning involves posters, plays and projects of all kinds, why not a website? Collaboration on websites is effortless, efficient and beautiful. My class researched environmental issues from the perspective of post-human nuclear experience through Chernobyl and the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with intriguing results.

2. Augmented Reality Digital Technologies: Data Security and Biometric Privacy Concerns for the 21st Century (LeChase 104)

Jasmin B. Cowin,Ed.D. (jasmin.cowin@touro.edu)

NYS TESOL, Touro College

Virtual (VR), augmented (AR) and mixed reality (MR) can collectively be described as Augmented Reality Digital Technologies (ARDT). ARDT’s are at the frontline of institutional experimentation in education spanning from early childhood to adult and higher education. However, there is an urgent need to be better informed on data collection ethics and to carefully consider the privacy and security risks these technologies might pose.

3. Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Framework for Teaching Language through Content (LeChase 148)

Daniel J. Uebbing (duebbing@u.rochester.edu)

Warner School, University of Rochester

Systemic Functional Linguistics hold potential as a viable option for teaching academic language registers through contextualized content in a teaching and learning cycle with involves co-constructing knowledge and interacting with each other and linguistic scaffolds such as sentence frames germane to a range of academic content.

4. Full Circle Intercommunication: a framework for storytelling, writing and connecting (LeChase 160)

Shena Driscoll Salvato (shena.salvato@cortland.edu)

SUNY Cortland

Communication in the digital age presents unique challenges for multilingual learners, limiting their opportunity to develop effective interpersonal communication skills. Learn how to implement Full Circle Intercommunication, an original framework developed to support multilingual learners in communicating with one another face-to-face, and in the process, becoming better writers.

5. Agency and Accountability in Graduate Students’ Reading Practices (LeChase 161)

Mahmoud Altalouli (mtalouli@u.rochester.edu)

Warner School of Education, University of Rochester

This research explores reading practices of graduate students using English as an additional language in a graduate course at a U.S. university. The emerging findings showed the role of academic reading in the graduate course’s activities, and how students navigated the expectations of the course as contextualized in the institution.