Jill Castek
Biographic Data
| ID | 7528000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Castek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Castek |
| SIGNATURE | CASTEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8628-710X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 9 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Research as Praxis
The co-editors of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) invite practitioners, teachers, and literacy educators who work with adolescent and adult learners to submit manuscripts that explore problems of practice in the teaching and learning of literacies. We welcome critically reflective articles, reviews, columns, or discussions that honor lived experiences, linguistic repertoires, cultural traditions, and the multiple perspectives …
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning
This article explores immersive learning experiences for young learners in a planetarium setting. These experiences open new learning possibilities and ignite children’s inquiry and imagination. The authors describe a naturalistic observational study that examines two immersive planetarium programs for young children. Data was collected as observational reflections that captured children’s interactions and questions. By analyzing reflections alon…
Curating childhood—literacy, play, and meaning-making in museum spaces
Thank You to Reviewers
Collaborative Digital Problem‐Solving
The study examines the collaborative nature of problem solving as dyads and triads of adults were grouped to solve digital problems using online resources. Digital problem solving involves the nimble use of skills, strategies, and mindsets to navigate online in everyday contexts using novel resources, tools, and interfaces, in efficient and flexible ways, to accomplish personal and professional goals. Findings address the nature of collaborative …
Digital inclusion as a social determinant of health
The use of digital tools and applications is steadily increasing and can support a range of health information needs 1 , 2 , 3 . As tools such as patient portals, health trackers, and remote monitoring devices see greater use, research suggests that tools such as health apps and patient portals can foster greater patient engagement, better support for patients outside of the clinic visit, and can improve health outcomes 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 …
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Critical Media Literacy in the Disciplines
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Engineering Design Team Journals
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Problem Solving
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Scaffolding Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Les Bricoscientifiques
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Teaching Digital Literary Literacies in Secondary English Language Arts
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
A Planning Framework for Integrating Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
Digital Mathematics Literacies
Cultivating Disciplinary Futures in a School‐Based Digital Atelier
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Disciplinary and Digital Literacies
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning explores intersections of digital and disciplinary literacies across multiple learning contexts. Topics addressed in the column come from variety of disciplines and include work with youth and adults, both in school and out of school. Digital enhancements will bring content to life and provoke questions, comments, and connections encouraging interactivity with readers. Jill Castek is a research assista…
Making It Social
Digital literacies for disciplinary learning explores intersections of digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts such as community makerspaces and schools and examines learning across disciplines including the arts, engineering, science, social studies, language arts, and math. Columns will address work with both youth and adults, both in school and out of school. Digital enhancements will encourage interactivity with readers a…
Understanding What Students Know
This piece is framed by questions we are often asked when we talk about online reading assessments and instruction with teachers. We begin with some of the lessons we have learned in our own experiences with designing measures of online reading comprehension. Then we share our thoughts about key design considerations as well as some of the biggest challenges of trying to capture online research and reading skills when online texts and authentic t…
Production and Consumption
In this column, the authors discuss emerging research in the field of adult digital literacy acquisition. The authors argue that the field of adult digital literacy acquisition has been under‐researched, especially in relation to multiliteracies and multimodal literacy practices. Data emerging from a large scale mixed methods study of adults engaged with Learner Web, a self‐access online learning system, indicate that opportunities to engage in t…
Using Apps to Support Disciplinary Literacy and Science Learning
Apps, specialized programs used on mobile computers, can be used in innovative ways to enhance science and literacy learning. With the skilled guidance of their teachers, students can exploit app affordances for learning and acquire disciplinary literacies unique to science. This article showcases apps that help students to access information, make sense of it, and create their own products that include rich visual representations. We also descri…
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Professional Materials
Using Apps to Support Disciplinary Literacy and Science Learning
Apps, specialized programs used on mobile computers, can be used in innovative ways to enhance science and literacy learning. With the skilled guidance of their teachers, students can exploit app affordances for learning and acquire disciplinary literacies unique to science. This article showcases apps that help students to access information, make sense of it, and create their own products that include rich visual representations. We also descri…
Production and Consumption
In this column, the authors discuss emerging research in the field of adult digital literacy acquisition. The authors argue that the field of adult digital literacy acquisition has been under‐researched, especially in relation to multiliteracies and multimodal literacy practices. Data emerging from a large scale mixed methods study of adults engaged with Learner Web, a self‐access online learning system, indicate that opportunities to engage in t…
Understanding What Students Know
This piece is framed by questions we are often asked when we talk about online reading assessments and instruction with teachers. We begin with some of the lessons we have learned in our own experiences with designing measures of online reading comprehension. Then we share our thoughts about key design considerations as well as some of the biggest challenges of trying to capture online research and reading skills when online texts and authentic t…
Disciplinary and Digital Literacies
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning explores intersections of digital and disciplinary literacies across multiple learning contexts. Topics addressed in the column come from variety of disciplines and include work with youth and adults, both in school and out of school. Digital enhancements will bring content to life and provoke questions, comments, and connections encouraging interactivity with readers. Jill Castek is a research assista…
Making It Social
Digital literacies for disciplinary learning explores intersections of digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts such as community makerspaces and schools and examines learning across disciplines including the arts, engineering, science, social studies, language arts, and math. Columns will address work with both youth and adults, both in school and out of school. Digital enhancements will encourage interactivity with readers a…
Scaffolding Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Les Bricoscientifiques
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Teaching Digital Literary Literacies in Secondary English Language Arts
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
A Planning Framework for Integrating Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning
Digital Mathematics Literacies
Cultivating Disciplinary Futures in a School‐Based Digital Atelier
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Critical Media Literacy in the Disciplines
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Engineering Design Team Journals
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Digital Problem Solving
This department column explores digital and disciplinary literacies across learning contexts and disciplines within and outside of school. Digital enhancements will encourage readers to post questions, comments, and connections
Thank You to Guest Reviewers
Digital inclusion as a social determinant of health
The use of digital tools and applications is steadily increasing and can support a range of health information needs 1 , 2 , 3 . As tools such as patient portals, health trackers, and remote monitoring devices see greater use, research suggests that tools such as health apps and patient portals can foster greater patient engagement, better support for patients outside of the clinic visit, and can improve health outcomes 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 …
Thank You to Reviewers
Collaborative Digital Problem‐Solving
The study examines the collaborative nature of problem solving as dyads and triads of adults were grouped to solve digital problems using online resources. Digital problem solving involves the nimble use of skills, strategies, and mindsets to navigate online in everyday contexts using novel resources, tools, and interfaces, in efficient and flexible ways, to accomplish personal and professional goals. Findings address the nature of collaborative …
Immersive planetarium and science center experiences as catalysts for literacy learning
This article explores immersive learning experiences for young learners in a planetarium setting. These experiences open new learning possibilities and ignite children’s inquiry and imagination. The authors describe a naturalistic observational study that examines two immersive planetarium programs for young children. Data was collected as observational reflections that captured children’s interactions and questions. By analyzing reflections alon…
Curating childhood—literacy, play, and meaning-making in museum spaces
Research as Praxis
The co-editors of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) invite practitioners, teachers, and literacy educators who work with adolescent and adult learners to submit manuscripts that explore problems of practice in the teaching and learning of literacies. We welcome critically reflective articles, reviews, columns, or discussions that honor lived experiences, linguistic repertoires, cultural traditions, and the multiple perspectives …
Psychology (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Mathematics education (16 works) · Pedagogy (16 works) · Literacy, Media, and Education (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Digital Storytelling and Education (11 works) · Discipline (10 works) · Literacy (9 works) · Social science (7 works)