"podcast time"

Symthe, S. & Neufeld, P. (2010, March). “Podcast Time”: Negotiating Digital Literacies and Communities of Learning in a Middle Years ELL Classroom. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 53(6). doi:10.1598/JAAL.53.6.5

I chose this article because of the pedagogy discussed. A project called “podcast time” created classroom learning communities (“the third space”) where students negotiated the digital literacies. The authors concluded that the invisibility of English language learners’ semiotic resources prevented “boundary crossing” between the pedagogic spaces of podcast time and the usual organization of classroom learning. Therefore, the authors regarded the podcast time as an example of pedagogic enrichment rather than the pedagogic transformation.

To me, the illumination of this article is that by accomplishing a task, students expanded their repertoires and began to write or read with and for an invested audience.