Antero Garcia’s research while affiliated with Stanford University and other places

... The term was popularized by the Buck Institute for Education (now known as PBLWorks) and encompasses specific elements that make PjBL more impactful for students. Gold Standard PjBL consists of seven essential design elements while keeping student learning goals in mind: (1) a challenging problem or question, (2) sustained inquiry, (3) authenticity, (4) student voice and choice, (5) reflection, (6) critique and revision, and (7) a public product (Boardman et al. 2024;Lee and Galindo, 2021;Irick et al. 2020;Larmer et al. 2015;Laur, 2013). These design elements, and the degree of their representation within the project, determine how closely a project attains the goals of Gold Standard PjBL (Irick et al. 2020). ...

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A systematic literature review of project-based learning in secondary school physics: theoretical foundations, design principles, and implementation strategies

... It points to the importance of the affective dimensions of the social studies curricula. In my own work with educators and in that of many other researchers, we see how these facets of civic learning also come into play in English and science education settings (e.g., Filipiak et al., 2015;Worker et al., 2023). Some of the most powerful applications appear in language education settings (e.g., Arredondo, 2020); this dimension of civic learning calls out for fuller exploration. ...

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“It’s Going to Go Beyond These Walls”: Toward a More Expansive Vision of Civic Learning

... Finally, situating our research within critical media literacy aligns with recommendations for best practices in pedagogy. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recently published a research policy brief titled Critical Media Literacy and Popular Culture in ELA Classrooms (Lyiscott et al. 2021), which advocates, in part, for ELA classrooms to encourage critical engagement with media and pop culture texts. This policy brief is further supported by a separate position statement by NCTE's teacher education assembly, English Language Arts Teachers and Educators (ELATE), titled Resolution on English Education for Critical Literacy in Politics and Media (NCTE, 2019). ...

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What Does "Going on the Record" Mean for Critical Media Literacy? Examining Informed Consent in Serial to Trouble Podcasts as Pedagogy

... Teacher education is frequently criticised for a disconnect between theory and practice, as well as among different sub-disciplines (Darling-Hammond, 2006;Smith, 2016). Partnership between universities and schools as well as other stakeholders is commonly identified as a way of bridging gaps and establishing connections among different domains (Farrell, 2021;Flores, 2016;Korthagen, 2010;Ma & Green, 2023;Trepper et al., 2023;Zeichner, 2010). Further, an important vantage point for partnership ambitions in teacher education is the wish to navigate complex professional situations while also trying to avoid fixed notions of expertise (Akkerman & Bakker, 2011a, 2011bWilliams, 2014). ...

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Third Space Moments: Exploring a university-school partnership through collaborative action research

... Not only were Latino/a families less likely to have the devices necessary for their children to continue their schooling (Robillard, 2023), but even when schools provided families with devices, connectivity was a fundamental barrier in the city of San Jose, a part of the Silicon Valley known for being a center of technological innovation (Palomino & Sanchez, 2020). The lack of bandwidth fell along racial and socioeconomic lines, with low-income Latino/a families less likely to have access to high-speed Internet (Gonzalez, 2020). ...

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Families and technologists intertwined: Students with learning differences and online learning

... Speculative design is not merely about predicting or anticipating futures. Instead, it is a tool for future-making that creates imaginative artifacts, prototypes, or stories that help critically examine the often-taken-for-granted present systems, policies, practices, tools, and identities while envisioning future possibilities that do not yet exist (Engeström, 2016;Garcia & Mirra, 2023;Ko et al., 2023). In this article, collective speculative future-making refers to the dynamic and collaborative process through which school communities prefigure possible futures by critically refining and implementing new solutions to dismantle the oppressive settler-colonial punitive school system. ...

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Dismantling the Settler-Colonial Punitive School System: Speculative Future-Making with a Rural High School Community Amid Uncertainty and Political Backlash

... We couple critical literacy with civic engagement frameworks as we seek to better understand how youths' critical literacy practices emerged alongside their participatory and civic practices (Garcia et al., 2015;Goodman & Cocca, 2014;Petrone et al., 2021). Youthcentered research concerning civic engagement challenges perspectives that position youth as disengaged in civic life by bringing attention to how traditional constructs of civic engagement often render youths' civic agency invisible (Mirra & Garcia, 2017;Stornaiuolo & Thomas, 2017;Watson & Petrone, 2020). ...

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“They can learn it through us”: Youth seeking racial justice through a community‐based book club

... Nonetheless, achieving the above requires deploy of innovative pedagogical strategies that emphasize an inclusive approach to literacy development while resisting technodeterminist framings of literacies. Some authors suggest that fostering critical digital literacy (CDL) skills among students and educators to enable them to critically analyze and evaluate the impact of technology on education is crucial (Trepper et al., 2022). This involves understanding the underlying ideologies and power structures embedded in digital tools and platforms (Figueiredo, 2019). ...

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The Efficacy of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Developing Science Education Preservice Teachers’ Writing Skills: An Experimental Approach

... There is broad recognition from scholars that platformization is playing a transformational role in society in general, and education in particular (Decuypere, Grimaldi, & Landri, 2021;Nichols & Garcia, 2022;Williamson, 2021). However, very little literature has engaged with the issue of platformization with regards to language education (cf. ...

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Language teachers’ use of social media platforms and online tutoring platforms: A scoping review

... The rubric used to code the MA websites was developed using phronetic iterative data analysis (Tracy & Hinrichs, 2017), beginning with inductive coding and restructured around the three datafication processes (Pangrazio et al., 2022). Qualitative and quantitative data were collected using the survey instrument, which was administered online using Qualtrics. ...

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K-12 Monitoring Applications in the Pandemic: Safety, Datafication, and the Student Experience