Examining Technology Based Funds of Knowledge (FoK) in Curriculum Design for English Language Learners
Abstract: Researchers have been calling for new curriculum designs to support students’ accomplishments in diverse life situations in a digital world, including the often undeveloped writing skills among the rapidly increasing number of English Learners (ELs) in the United States Previous studies demonstrated that a critical component of Funds of Knowledge (FoK) research is to develop new curricula and instructional approaches Therefore, the purpose of this ethnographic qualitative study was to explore the FoK within young Mexican-American ELs’ (iPanchitos’) families through home-visits, in-depth interviews, field notes, and informal observations Research findings revealed four categories of FoK: family-based, center-based, community-based, and technology-based, which also provided an innovative approach to scaffold a culture-based narrative
Presider: Jean Starobin, University of Wisconsin