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TPACK: Producing and Sharing Authentic Student Thought. Presented by Andrea Ouimette & Guy Larcom RELATe 2011 Rouen, France.
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TPACK: Producing and Sharing Authentic Student Thought • Presented by • Andrea Ouimette & Guy Larcom • RELATe 2011 Rouen, France
“As human interaction and the range of imagination changed over time, so have the methods that allow storytelling to reach a wider audience and allow us to preserve a voice, an image and a moment in time... in a way that was never possible before”Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, M. EdTechnology Integration Facilitator
do digital stories promote literacy and creativity? • allow students to focus on writing process • students can incorporate pictures, drawings, and audio into their stories • focus can be content or language specific • students can publish their work to be shared by friends and family
Reading Standards for Literature Gr 2 • Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message • write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings... • with guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Writing Standards for Literature Gr 2
Student produced digital storybooks • Voicethread • Mixbook (great for collaboration, repurposed for educ.) • StoryKit (open source app; easily adaptable) • iMovie or other film-making software
How does it work? A digital book to practice shapes (appropriate for age 5 - 7)
StoryKit • developed by the ICDL • open source • easily adaptable to different ages and content areas
Student produced digital storybooks can be used... • to create dual language projects (ESL students, fostering Mother Tongue) • for language learning at all levels • to produce fictional texts for content areas (science, social studies, etc) to expain how or why something happens • to collaborate and publish work
creating critical readers: Taking advantage of Online study guides
2 problems • Getting students to read • Online “study guides” give kids the bare minimum they need to pass our classes
What are we asked to do? • Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. • Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
comprehension • Do Sparknotes and other study guides encourage deep thinking or comprehension? • Does forbidding students from using these study guides work? • How can we solve this problem?
what happens when we ask students to use sparknotes and other online resources to analyze class texts?
pedagogically speaking • Building a framework • Repurposing • Adding value to the resources we have and students use
possibilities • students have a guideline of literary analysis • can be asked to find holes in online resources • find and catalogue deeper, richer resources that help them go beyond Sparknotes • create better resources or supplementary ones • find out the difference between summary and literary analysis • Why was something written? What is it representing? reacting to?
students catalogue their resources • you know where they are getting information from • students to find better resources • more in depth • more specific • Students create a library, share
got something to say? • Conference hashtag: #relate11 • Guy Larcom on Twitter: @GuyCLarcom • Andrea Ouimette on Twitter: @AndreaOuimette