Alex Corbitt
@alexcorbitt.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Literacy | Coauthorship | Gaming | Critical Worldbuilding | Horror | alexcorbitt.com
Thanks @alexcorbitt.bsky.social for hosting tonight's #literacies chats! In addition to being a brilliant educator, Alex is also a really great person to play tabletop games with! He practices what he preaches in scholarship and friendship! 🤓
A6: I see children reimagining and revising the media, stories, and situations they are surrounded with as "materials" to play with. This is why I love family #literacies work as well, to connect and engage with children's social worlds, as they reimagine them through their play practices.
A6. The history of drag and its current practices show us how play can inform a world with less violence, less oppression, less strictness! A forever favorite article on the topic: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #literacies
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A6: Returning to Toy Story 5 because it's still on my mind. The film emphasized the importance of togetherness in imaginative play. With the rise of tools that limit the expanse of our imaginations (e.g., AI), collaborative play feels more important than ever. #literacies
exactly!! and with that framing, it becomes really natural to think about how props, lighting, and the space are also collaborating as part of the overall effect of the play. I thought about this during our last performance, which the children performed outside as an immersive "stage" #literacies.
A5: Play has a politics. Name it. It's important to provide non-examples of what harmful play might look like, feel like, and sound like. Of course, do this with participants' consent, but make it collaborative. What might seem playful for some might be precarious for others #literacies
A5. I think the rise of calling things "cringe" has made being playful and taking risks more challenging (as Ocean Vuong has argued). I do wonder if the seeming online shift to "whimsy" is in part a move away from the self-consciousness and fear of being seen as "cringe"? #literacies
Some ways I do this is through cultivating a classroom where multilingual is normative by including multilingual texts and honoring people's full language repertoires! #literacies
A4: I learn most when in community with others. It's important for me to construct learning around group activities within my teaching. Whether posing imaginary scenarios to PSTs or asking students to take the perspective of a literary character, I find most comfort in collaboration. #literacies
A3: From creating playlists, rewriting endings, designing "aura" photographs, and improvising in character, these practices not only helped young people understand complex texts like Shakespeare's Hamlet but also cultivated a shared vision of collaborative composing. (2/2🧵) #literacies
A4: I think this is really the power of arts-based research and pedagogy. Of course theater isn't free from individualism, but it has offered me and my participants a powerful language to talk about the impacts of different ways of working and playing together as an ensemble #literacies
A1. I've also been curious about the more playful turn in pop. We went through a various serious, introspective phase (post-Lorde, post-Billie) of pop. We seem to be in a bit more playful era (Sabrina, Chappell, Olivia to a degree). #literacies
A2. "Try things out!" tends the guide my classroom, esp in methods courses. I can't remember/find the meme but it was something like, "sometimes you're a flop and sometimes you're a slay." I always want to make room for the flops and the slays b/c life and teaching is a mixture of both! #literacies
A2: My dissertation is about how multilingual teachers and students bring their full language selves to the learning process. Multilingual people are often very creative and play with language, especially through translanguaging. Languages mixing (Hinglish, Spanglish) still follow rules. #literacies
Q2: Playful and game-based spaces are often informed by rules and norms. Though rules can be constraining, they can also create new opportunities for innovation and interaction. What are the “rules of composing” or “rules of interaction” that shape your teaching context? #literacies
Thank you for being so supportive of the project! The youth have now finished up their theater projects and are making films about their artistic processes, inspired by @rabani.bsky.social and @amystorn.bsky.social's "data reels"! Really exciting stuff! #literacies
A1. I was playing Cozy Stickerville and eating homemade pizza with @alexcorbitt.bsky.social on Saturday night, which was lovely! And speaks to how I normally incorporate play in life: board games, D&D, trivia, etc. #literacies
My personal and professional life have been upended lately. I’ve found tapping into my inner child and teaching kiddos how to play Pokemon TCG at one of my local card shops to be a powerful outlet for #literacies play and brevity. ❤️🩹
A1: The first thing I thought of when reading this question was seeing Toy Story 5 yesterday. Beyond evoking nostalgia of days when play felt so central to life, it also made me question how we even think of the term and how the movie positioned the importance of collaborative play. #literacies
A1: My whole dissertation is rooted in a children's theater space, so playfulness feels woven into everything I'm working on right now. It is truly such a privilege and often does not feel like "work" to be in that space #literacies!
I’m Kyle P. Smith Kyle P. Smith, a graduate student board member of @writinglit.bsky.social. I’ll be moderating tonight’s #literacies chat. I want to make a S/O to Clara Abbott, Nicole R. Misra she/her, and Lexi K Woodward, for their work on the W&L SIG Bsky team.
Hi everyone, my name is Clara Abbott! I am a PhD candidate in Literacy Studies at Penn GSE and @writinglit.bsky.social Graduate Student Board member with my amazing colleagues, @nicolermisra.bsky.social @lexikwoodward.bsky.social and @kpsinedu.bsky.social! Excited for the chat tonight! #literacies
Hi, @writinglit.bsky.social and #literacies friends! I am so excited for tonight’s chat! I am Alex Corbitt, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at @syracuseu.bsky.social. Joining tonight from Central New York :)
Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning is just 2 days away 6/30 at 8-9:00pm EST/ 6-7pm PST! We hope you will add your voice to the conversation! #literacies
Tomorrow’s #literacies chat Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning will take place on 6/30 at 8-9:00pm EST/ 6:00-7:00pm PST!. Join us!
Join #literacies chat at 8-9:00PM/5-6pm PST tonight as we discuss Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning.
So excited to get to participate in tonight's conversation with @alexcorbitt.bsky.social! #literacoes
AERA Writing & Literacies SIG@writinglit.bsky.social · last mo.Tomorrow’s #literacies chat Play and Interaction in Literacy Learning will take place on 6/30 at 8-9:00pm EST/ 6:00-7:00pm PST!. Join us!
Gah, I need to run to a meeting! Thank you for organizing an amazing #literacies chat with Dr. Mora, @writinglit.bsky.social team 🙌🏼🎉