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Technology and Literacy: A Love Story
Rhonda Jenkins
Participants will add to their arsenal of technology tools in this session and see how they can be used to promote literacy in the classroom or the library. Bring a device and get ready to explore more than 30 tools that promote literacy in our technology- lled world!
Best suited for elementary and middle school library media specialists/teacher librarians.
Who Gets to Be the Hero? Imagining a More Just Future Through Diverse Children’s Fantasy
Sayantani DasGupta
Children’s literature plays a critical role in shaping and transforming our collective imaginations
— movements such as #weneeddiversebooks and #ownvoices ensure that marginalized readers can see themselves re ected positively, but also so we can collectively engage in acts of radical imagination — bending the arc of all our futures toward justice. Yet, how do we move from seeking and writing stories that “teach a good lesson” toward diverse tales that “tell a good story?” In
this workshop, we will examine middle-grade and YA fantasy novels that are exercises in radical imagination, and put them in the conversation with theory around multicultural futurism. We will collectively generate a list of diverse middle grade and YA fantasy to share with our students and communities, while using them as models in our own writing.
Best suited for grades 3-8.
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