TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
The team consists of four to five members. At least two of the positions are two-year positions so that there is always at least one senior member. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining the DSICG website, publishing the newsletter to the DSICG website, maintaining and updating the DSCIG Facebook page, Twitter account, and Instagram account. Additionally, the technology committee is responsible for organizing and hosting webinars and digital networking sessions throughout the year.
Emily Mannard is a PhD student in McGill University’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education, and secondary school English Language Arts/Social Studies educator. Her research explores adolescents’ literacies, pleasurable play, and collaborative socialization through digitized texts and technologies, particularly videogames and livestreaming practices. The past three years have drawn her attention toward community-driven research focused on designing equitable, technology-based learning opportunities for socially marginalized youth. She has taken findings from this work to advocate for the value of adolescents’ everyday literacies and experiences in digital culture, especially those that are commonly devalued in popular discourse and formal education.
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Mary Rose is a doctoral student in Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Chicago Public Schools high school English teacher. Her research lies at the intersections of critical literacy, the secondary English language arts classroom, and teacher professional development. She is also a union organizer and activist, traditional Irish music enthusiast, amateur genealogist, and sometimes co-researcher with her two brothers, Conor and Michael. Follow her on Twitter @anmuinteoir. |
Kathleen Plond is a doctoral student at Wayne State University, in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a master’s degree from Madonna University in Reading, a master’s degree from Eastern Michigan University in Early Childhood Education, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Elementary Education. Her research interests include school readiness, emergent literacy, and family literacy specifically, how families create literacies with their youngest family members. In addition to being a student, Kathleen is also a District Literacy Coach, providing coaching and professional development to K-3 teachers to enable teachers to think reflectively to improve student learning. In addition, she has also worked as a reading specialist and a classroom teacher for kindergarten students. Kathleen and her husband live in Garden City, MI.
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Eun Young is a former in-service high school English teacher in South Korea, and is now studying at the University of Georgia majoring in Language and Literacy Education. Her focus area is translanguaging, YA literature, and transnational youths. She is a passionate yogi, a coffee addict, and a proud dog mom.
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