Tag: student-created digital media
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Multi-literacies and Digital Media Creation
This post will be a bit theoretical, as it is lifted from a draft of my dissertation proposal but is written in journalistic style. I hope it helps you understand the multi-literacy theories behind the Cosmic Creator Challenge. Achieving competence in any language (literacy) requires four components: fluency of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It…
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A History of This Research – Part 1: The Accidental Project
I started teaching in 1990 at a start-up school in the Sierra Nevada Mountains called Tioga High School. It was located near the town of Groveland on the Highway 120 entrance to Yosemite National Park. The school site was not yet ready when we began that fall, so we first taught out of a portable…
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Exploring the Solar System: A Graphic Novel Sample Project
Over many years of teaching students how to plan and build excellent projects, I have found that most have difficulty in the crucial planning phase. They often go with the first project approach that comes to mind and jump into creating it without spending enough time and effort to carefully plan out the scope and…
The Creative Science Classroom 