Curating a Literacy Life: Student-Centered Learning with Digital Media

Curating a Literacy Life spotlights the idea of curation as a process for inspiring student-centered learning with digital media. Young people need to learn to become purposeful collectors and, thus, curators of their own learning. In this book, Kist shows educators how to empower students as they make sense of all the books, videos, websites, and social media they access. Packed with ideas and activities developed over time in a high school setting, the book presents a model for learning to learn--a way of processing, making meaning, and repurposing all the texts around us. Kist demonstrates how curating can happen no matter where the teaching and learning are taking place, whether virtually or face-to-face, in school or out of school. Using smartphones, a Netflix account, and access to a variety of YA, canonical, and media texts, this resource provides a foundation for becoming lifelong scholars and artists. Curating a Literacy Life is for both teachers and parents who are interested in helping young people harness, manage, and learn from the multiple messages and texts they encounter every day.

Book Features:

• A powerful model to help teens make sense of and even repurpose the texts they encounter daily.
• Ideas for making use of digital media in ways that are meaningful to today's students.
• Strategies for bridging the divide between in-school and out-of-school literacies.
• Activities developed during the author's years as an instructional coach at Cleveland's Glenville High School.