Questão 67255

A high school English teacher is developing a unit on 'Digital Literacies' for her 10th-grade students. She observes that her students are highly skilled in certain digital practices—they can create intricate TikTok videos, navigate complex video game worlds, and communicate using a rich semiotic system of memes, GIFs, and emojis. However, they struggle with what the school defines as 'academic literacy': reading long-form texts, constructing a written argument, and citing sources. The teacher wants to challenge the school's deficit view of the students' skills and design a project that bridges their vernacular literacies with academic literacies. She is inspired by the work of James Paul Gee on 'affinity spaces,' which he describes as online communities where people learn and participate based on a shared interest, not on formal credentials. Gee argues: 'People can be 'illiterate' in terms of school, but 'literate' in ways that are powerful and deep in the context of their affinity spaces. The problem is that schools are not good at recognizing or leveraging these 'unofficial' literacies. A progressive pedagogy would seek to understand the literacy practices of these affinity spaces and connect them to academic goals.'

Which of the following projects would be the most innovative and effective application of this theoretical perspective on literacy processes?