Hello, and welcome to another Two to Ponder with Dr.

Gregory McVerry.

Today, we’re going to be talking about identities and technology.

And no, not in the cybersecurity sense of an identity of an asset within a system, although there are a lot of parallels to that line of work to where we’re heading.

But really, what do we mean when we say identity and literacy and its relationship to technology?

The work falls mainly into four baskets.

You have Bakhtin’s Dialogical Identities, Self-Efficacy Research, Vygotsky and Self-Regulation, and more recent work into Out-of-School Literacies and Disciplinary Literacies by the likes of Brian Street and Elizabeth Moji.

But what does this all mean?

Well, Bakhtin first came up with this concept, and it was really Hallquist who got into this lens of defining Bakhtin’s Dialogism with identities.

And it was this idea that we have an active existence where our state of identity changes, and we’re always self-authoring onto the worlds and constructing these identities within the boundaries of ourselves and the mediated world around us.

With Self-Efficacy Research, you’re thinking about, like, does a learner think they’re good at technology?

Do they see themselves as a reader and a writer?

Do they see themselves as a nerd and geek?

How does that Self-Efficacy impact learning?

And Self-Regulation draws heavily on Vygotsky and this idea of mediated spaces.

In a world of notification, Self-Regulation is going to matter.

Then you have that work of Brian Street that went into the New London Study Group and branched off into Disciplinary Literacies and how we got a plural literacies in the first place.

So where you go with identity and technology research with literacy, well, I guess there’s many different identities when it comes to technology and literacy.