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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · 22d

New Publication 🚨: Dr. @ankhithakurta.bsky.social and I examined how two communities of young people collaborated to imagine new civic worlds. Our findings highlight how speculation is a situated practice made visible through interaction: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Situated speculation: A cross-case analysis of youths' processes of composing civic futures

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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · Sep 8

Huge congratulations to @kpsinedu.bsky.social who successfully defended his dissertation proposal today! (🧵1/3) #literacies

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Jul 20

New publication 🎉🎉. In this piece, I explore how six teenage boys coauthored imaginative worlds together through RPG play. In particular, I examine innovative moments of “liminal play” when the game, rules, and real-world blurred together. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · May 22

Join us TONIGHT at 8pm ET for Dreaming With Latinx Teens In The Literacy Classroom with Dr. Carla España. @ncte.org members can register for the free event here: ncte.org/dreaming-wit...

#literacies #ncte #literacy

#MakersInTheMiddle Dreaming with Latinx Teens in the Literacy Classroom

NCTE members are invited to join Literacies and Languages for All (LLA) and Drs. Sally Brown and Rong Zhang for a discussion about their recent book, Multimodal Funds of Knowledge in Literacy: Counter...

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · May 13

Join the NCTE Middle Level Section next Thursday (5/22) at 8pm ET as we learn from Dr. Carla España and explore instructional strategies for dreaming with Latinx teens! NCTE members can register for the free event here: ncte.org/dreaming-wit...

#ncte #literacies #literacy

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AERA Media, Culture & Learning SIG @mclsig.bsky.social · Apr 5

Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

decorative splash of paint with the content Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Apr 10

New Article 🎉: Video games are spaces that blur our identities & relationships across online & offline contexts. Dr. Lima Becker & I explored how 3 Brazilian transnational children in the US did complex relational work w/ friends & family while playing Roblox: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Relational Bleeding, Bending, and Diffraction: Brazilian Transnational Children's Transgressive Digital Play on Roblox

This article draws from a one-year connective ethnographic study that examined Brazilian transnational children's composing practices on a digital gaming platform named Roblox. Building upon research...

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Dec 12

♥️🙏🏼♥️🙏🏼

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Dec 12

New publication🚨: Mariana Becker and I highlight moments of critical play where three Brazilian immigrant children used innovative practices to represent their transnational identities and resist Roblox paywalls that restrict player access. Read here: tinyurl.com/2a99446y

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Karis Jones @karismjones.bsky.social · Nov 25

Our #NCTE2024 from “Humor In and Across Learning Spaces”! Great conversations about integrating humor as a critical practice in learning spaces. The group weathered our technical problems with good humor 😉

@angel.h.ky
@scottstorm.bsky.social
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
David Low in spirit

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 24

Thanks, friend! 🙏🏼♥️

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 24

Our middle level arts-based activism session at NCTE! Shoutout to Reka Barton, Casey Pennington, and Sarah Bonner for facilitating!!

#NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

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Kyle P. Smith @kpsinedu.bsky.social · Nov 23

Congrats, @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on winning the #NCTE Promising Researcher Award! Well deserved, my friend!

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Vanèe @tokenblackteach.bsky.social · Nov 22

Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin are presenting at the Middle-Level Luncheon, and they are hilarious! Real sibling-like relationship on display. Super fun. #Ncte24 MakersintheMiddle

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Vanèe @tokenblackteach.bsky.social · Nov 22

Alethea Madonad (@uhleetheeuh) is dropping tons of gems on writing strategies today at #Ncte24. I love the teacher input happening in this session. That's why we call it #MakersintheMiddle. The teachers engage in these sessions!

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Vanèe @tokenblackteach.bsky.social · Nov 22

Linda Coombs said she's told that Indigenous people have "creation myths". She said, "No, we have creation histories" and I'm now realizing that I'm gonna need to take notes. #NCTE #MakersintheMiddle

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Listening to Linda Coombs talks about TEK - Traditional Ecological Knowledge - and Indigenous ways of life. Excited to read her new book, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Watching @aemaldo.bsky.social share mini-lessons and sample student work from her Social Justice Writing Unit 🔥♥️

#NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

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Vanèe @tokenblackteach.bsky.social · Nov 22

The Middle-Level Steering incoming chair @alexcorbitt.bsky.social and outgoing chair Sarah Bonner socializing and on the ground, making with the middle school teachers! That's how we do it at Middle Level!

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Listening to Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin explain how they engaged in research - or DETECTIVE work - to write their new book, The Bletchley Riddle at #NCTE24

#NCTE #makersinthemiddle

Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Shoutout to two of our Middle Level Section award winners: Carla España (Richard W Halle Award 🏆) and @brownellcassie.bsky.social (Linda Rief Ward 🏆)!! You do incredible, sustaining work with middle grades students 🙏🏼 #NCTE24 #NCTE #makersinthemiddle

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 22

Middle level teachers playing, making, and critiquing games as tools for literacy learning!

#MakersintheMiddle #NCTE24 #NCTE

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Karis Jones @karismjones.bsky.social · Nov 20

#NCTE2024 who wants to think together about humor as a critical literacy practice? Join myself & Angel Ky, @scottstorm.bsky.social, and @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on Sunday at 9am. We’ll be building on David Low’s framework (pictured below, check it out!) #NCTE24

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 20

Finding Hope in Middle Grade Literature: The Middle Level Mosaic

Saturday, November 23rd
2:45-4:00PM

🧵7/7 #NCTE24

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Alex Corbitt @alexcorbitt.bsky.social · Nov 20

Creating a HeARTful Community: Infusing ELA, Art, and Activism to Promote Student Voices

Saturday, November 23rd
8:15-9:30AM

🧵6/7 #NCTE24

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