The proliferation of discourse and research focused on American youths’ digital culture has given rise to a series of assumptions about youths’ digital savvy as well as their learning deficits, often at the expense of looking critically at the convergences and divergences between youths’ everyday digital practices and their learning experiences, particularly within the context of community colleges. Anchored in her study of Frederick Community College youths’ digital culture, Dr. Trigger considers the implications for community college curricula and teaching reform through an interactive distillation of the overlaps and gaps between community college youths’ everyday digital practices, their confidence with digital practices, and their perceptions of the relevance of these practices in college and in their future.
About the presenterKelly Trigger
Dr. Kelly Trigger is currently interim associate vice president for teaching and learning at Frederick Community College. As a professor of English and FCC Honors College faculty for nearly fifteen years, Dr. Trigger has taught courses ranging from developmental reading and honors composition to interdisciplinary courses including media and human values, film as literature, women’s studies, and popular culture. Through the lens of American Studies, Dr. Trigger’s research focuses on American youth and digital culture. Her recent doctoral work studied the complexity of differences among Frederick Community College youths’ digital practices and the implications of these differences for community college general education reform.