Games for Educators
Roleplaying games designed by Karis and collaborators to foster engagement, literacy learning, and critical reflection.
TTRPG for teacher professional developments and teacher education classrooms
We Know Something You Don’t Know invites you into the lives of students making their way day-by-day through the education system. In the game, you play as a student who is labeled many times by the educational institution as a “troublemaker,” but you know differently. You and your classmates happen on something the teachers and administrators do not know about-- but has important consequences for the community as a whole. As you play through the game, you will explore your character and the group through a series of collaborative scenes set by you and your classmates with teacher and institution responses always lurking around the corner.
TTRPG to pair with YA genres in English Language Arts classrooms
In this YA-fiction-themed campaign, you will generate dateable NPCs based on popular archetypes to help you save your town from destruction! Winning Entry in "One Page Dungeon Contest: 2020"
Blog & Magazine Posts
Practitioner-friendly writing focused on implementing fandom-based and equity-focused research.
Reclaiming Gradelessness at a Formerly Gradeless Institution
I share three gradeless practices that I have taken up in my context that I hope you might find useful for your class, department, or school community.
Resisting Pedagogies Washing Back from Standardized Testing
What expansive learning outcomes are possible when we move beyond concerns of standardized tests?
Going Gradeless with Students Stuck in the Old System
o help you to cut through the fear without being discouraged by unexpected sources of resistance, I’m going to break down a few common questions I have encountered and navigated in my own gradeless journey, as well as responses I have used to quickly reframe their concerns and alleviate their anxiety.
Speculative Interaction Analysis
Read this Zine prepared by the Interaction, Analysis & Learning (IAL) Research Group for AERA 2022.
Disrupting Literacy
We believe teachers can disrupt oppressive structures by spotlighting everyday texts from students’ lives and focusing on anti-racist pedagogies.
Using Digital Spaces to Promote Linguistic Justice
When I see emerging teachers reflecting on how they or their peers have been oppressed by WME and take steps to shift how they engage in our class’s discourses, I know they are learning something liberatory about language.
Public Events
Recorded public events organized or co-facilitated by Karis relating to education, gaming, and public humanities work.
“Leveling Up Critical Storytelling” at the Strong Museum of Play: Imagined game worlds can be critical spaces where gamers can reimagine the conditions of everyday life in ways that dream toward justice-oriented futures. In this interactive session, a group of panelists will explain how they use RPGs to reimagine societal structures that contribute to social, economic, and political inequity.
“Get Ready to Roll” at the Strong Museum of Play: Are you an educator, librarian, or gamer trying to start a Dungeons and Dragons club? In this interactive session, a group of expert game masters (GMs) will share tips and tricks for starting up role-playing campaigns that are inclusive of all gamers.
“Doing the Work Together: Community-University Partnerships Centering Social Justice and Equity”: Public seminar hosted by NYU Humanities Center, New York, NY. Public Humanities Fellow Karis Jones and collaborators from non-profit New City Kids explore topics of interest relating to community-university partnerships.
Twitter Chats
Compilations of Twitter chats (#tg2chat and #literacies) organized or co-hosted by Karis for the public around current topics of interest.
Podcast Episodes & Videos
Podcast episodes or videos produced, organized, co-hosted by or featuring Karis. Production includes research narratives, compilations of 1-min research submissions from special interest groups and video previews for a literacy symposium.
“Featured Summer Podcast Series”: Produced by the AERA Writing & Literacies SIG Podcast Team Karis Jones, Gemma Cooper-Novack, Alex Corbitt, April Camping
“Navigating Fandom Transliteracies in Classroom Spaces”: This session explores practitioners incorporating fandom transliteracies across four studies. Produced by Karis Jones
JoLLE article “Chasing New Worlds”: Jennifer Ervin interviews Karis Jones, Scott Storm, Jennifer Castillo, & Sasha Karbachinskiy
“Breaking up with Wattpad: A Love Story”: This video follows the literacy journey of one young Egyptian woman and passionate but brief affair with the Wattpad fanfiction community. Produced by Karis Jones.