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Draw Your Own Confusions: Cultivating Ambient Awareness In The Literature Classroom, Jesse Kavadlo

New Jersey English Journal

While students strive to avoid ambiguity, exploring it can lead to understanding challenging texts. Rather than beginning in-class discussions by learning what students think, we can use what social media theorists refer to as “ambient awareness” to start at a more advanced stage to cultivate student confusion for pedagogical purposes.