Beyond Access: Challenging Educational Platforms Through a Tetrad of Literacies Approach

Beyond Access: Challenging Educational Platforms Through a Tetrad of Literacies Approach

How is EdTech currently being implemented and employed in the Canadian K-12 education system? This webinar will review a draft of several policy responses originating from the proposed Tetrad of Literacies, a working conceptual framework to initiate reflection on the goals of democratic education and the impacts of platforms. Building on previous literature in the field, this webinar will provide direction for subsequent research, while also making the case for certain provisional policies regarding educational governance and technology, as outlined in the Tetrad of Literacies, to be envisioned in Canadian schools. The specific working policy responses discussed will originate from the working Tetrad of Literacies framework, which includes the following four: critical media literacy, digital literacy, information literacy, and data literacy skills, to increase aptitude in these areas.

Date: Wednesday, June 25th 
Time: 12pm EST | 
Location: Register Here for the Zoom link

Speaker: Julianna Kowlessar 
Julianna is a PhD student in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication & Culture at York and Toronto Metropolitan Universities in Toronto, Canada. Her research centres on advancing Canadian critical media literacy education through innovative pedagogical methods, including, but not limited to, games, for K-12 students. The research Julianna conducted during her master's explored how Canadian teacher candidates understood and approached the subject of critical media literacy, to discover practical and unique methods of teaching it to their future students. Through her doctoral research, Julianna intends to strategize policy recommendations for enhancing critical media literacy in the Canadian K-12 educational system.