“Digital Narratives” Project for Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Fellowship 2022-2023, University of Michigan English performs a dominant (Daniel & Zybina, 2019) and colonial (Alim & Paris, 2017) force in multilingual classrooms across the world. Given English’s global supremacy, I offer a transformative pedagogy and decolonial approach across contexts in language classrooms that promote the use of all students’ repertoires beyond monolingual prescriptive. To support transformative pedagogy, decolonial approach, and multilingualism in language classrooms, I created this project to encourage students to draw upon their full linguistic repertoires and assets. My research project “Digital Narratives” examines digital stories created by multilingual writers.…
Author: Alexandra Krasova
My earliest memory of interacting with digital technology goes back to 2002 when I started attending IT classes at school. It was a fascinating experience. When I received my first computer two years later, I already knew how to use some of the programs, type text, create presentations. The technology was developing rapidly, and I, being a non-digital native, was behind. However, everything changed when I started my Ph.D., because we used a lot of digital tools in the classroom. I started using them for my online classes as well. Now I call myself digital literate. As a DRC fellow,…