Background/Context Large gaps in achievement and interest in science and engineering
(STEM) persist for youth growing up in poverty, and in particular for African American and …

The maker movement has evoked interest for its role in breaking down barriers to STEM
learning. However, few empirical studies document how youth are supported over time in …

Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural
interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this …

Why are boundaries important when studying social and educational practices? Boundaries
might be said to define our everyday social and cultural worlds in fundamental ways …

This chapter focuses both on how people's practices of using digital technologies affect the
ways they use and learn language, and how people's practices of using and learning …

In this paper, we use the concept of consequential learning to frame our exploration of what
makes learning and doing science matter for youth from nondominant communities, as well …

ABSTRACT Whereas 'Web 2.0 technology'has pushed the learning agenda towards
connectivity and boundary crossing, in the current 'new new media ontology'the fear that …

This chapter reviews research on the relation of literacy and identity in the context of
transnational migration and changing linguistic and communicative landscapes with online …

Understanding the affordances that networked platforms offer is a good place to start
rethinking our notions of learning. The article discusses how social connectivity has …

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance
that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and …