i18 storytelling and technology in the chinese classroom - tang harvey-wang

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Storytelling and Technology

in the Foreign Language Classroom

Frank Tang, New York UniversityRobin Harvey, New York UniversityBing Qiu, Bronx High School of ScienceXuan Wang, Sidwell Friends School

+Story-Telling and Technology in the Chinese ClassroomHow can we use culturally important stories in the second language classroom?

How can we tap into student creativity and linguistic ability to allow them to tell their own stories, in their own voice in the target language?

How can we create opportunities for students to use technology, an important part of their daily lives, to tell their stories?

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Design

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Play

Meaning

Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind, 2006

The Six Senses for the 21st Century

+The Sense of Story

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. (Roger Schank, Cognitive scientist)

Stories are easier to remember—because in many ways, stories are how we remember.

+The power of stories

Most of our experience, our knowledge and our thinking is organized as stories.

Stories have causality, conflicts, complications, and characters. (Daniel Willingham, 2000)

Storytelling stimulates thinking and creativity, and encourage collaborative learning.

+What does it mean by “storytelling”?Storytelling is interactive.

Storytelling uses words as well as actions such as vocalization, physical movement and/or gesture.

Storytelling presents a story—a narrative.

Storytelling encourages active imagination of the listeners.

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The queen died and the king died.

The queen died and the king died of a broken heart.

Place the facts in context and deliver them with some emotional impact.

+The art of storytelling

Engage students in the storytelling process: Create opportunity for them to practice the language, interact, reflect, question, inquire, predict, and imagine.

Integrate storytelling with other art forms, such as pictures, music, songs, ppt, videos, movie clips, news, dramatization, etc.

+NYU StarTalk Immersion Training Program for Teachers of Chinese (K-6)

Teacher training program

First held in 2012; new program developed for 2013 Three credit, graduate level summer course “Teaching

Foreign Language to Elementary School Students” Four additional workshops in Dual Language/Immersion

education (ongoing in fall) Special summer workshop on Story-Telling with Helena

Curtain

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Stories from NYU 2012 StarTalk Training Program for Teachers of Chinese

Working with Authentic Cultural Stories:

• Creating stories our students can understand (I+1)

• Focusing on language points (grammar, vocabulary)

• Incorporating the 5 C’s• Three modes of communication

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Stories from NYU 2012 StarTalk Training Program for Teachers of Chinese

Types of Stories

Repetitive StoriesCumulative StoriesContent-based Stories

Helena Curtain

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How do we

honor the

dead?

Cultural practice/product/

perspective?

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今天是亡靈節Yo Recuerdo a

Abuelito

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我的爺爺去年過世了。我很想念他。

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媽媽說爺爺今天會回來。

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今天是亡靈節！ 我們買麵包和花朵給爺爺！

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今天是亡靈節！我們帶食物和水果給爺爺。

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今天是亡靈節！我看到很多蝴蝶！

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今天是亡靈節！我的爺爺回來了！

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Yo Recuerdo a Abuelito ¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+Ahora, compramos pan.

+¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+ Ahora, compramos flores.

+¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+Ahora, compramos calaveras.

+¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+ Ahora, compramos dulces.

+¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+Ahora, vamos al cementerio.

+¡Es el día de los muertos!

¡Celebramos!

+Ahora, abuelito se celebra con nosotros.

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“ How do

people pay respect to those that

have passed away?

Memories

Traditions

Respect

GeographyOfferings,

Food

Emotions

Faith

Concept Web

+ Lesson Breakdown

Lesson 1 – Story: Yo recuerdo a Abuelito Lesson 2 – Shopping for the Day of the Dead Lesson 3 – Geography (Where do we celebrate Day of the

Dead?) Lesson 4 – My favorite things Lesson 5 – What will we bring? Lesson 6 – Creating an offering Lesson 7 – Lesson 8 – What is Qing Ming Jie? Lesson 9 – Chinese poetry Lesson 10 – Compare and Contrast Lesson 11 – Preparation for presentation Lesson 12 – Final Presentations

+Day of the Dead vs. 清明节

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Creating Stories in Beginning Chinese Classroom

Xuan WangSidwell Friends School2013-4-7

+Stories

• Context

• Creativity

• Emotion

• Repetition

+Tell a Story VS Ask a Story

+How to Ask a Story

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卡片情人节卡片一张情人节卡片写了一张情人节卡片…… 给……写了一张情人节卡片

( for)

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情人节qíng jié

晚 餐wáncān

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+Activities with Stories

Put in order

Spot the difference

Acting

Tell the story

Draw the Story

Read a new story

+A new story to read

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Rock That Movie Night!Spring 2013 Chinese Video Competition

Bing QiuBronx High School of Science

+History of Rock That Movie Night!

Qiu Bing(Bronx Science High School) & Wang Xuan (Suffern High School, Sidwell Friends School) started Rock That Movie Night in 2012 as an effort to involve students in sharing insights and knowledge about the Chinese language and culture through creative videos.

They approached Project DCLT for Support in infrastructure

“Authentic community” for sharing videos

Prizes!!!

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competition

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competitionLocked up

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competitionBreak out

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competitionTeamwork

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competitionStudents

+Why we created the “Rock That Movie” competitionCommunity

One of the 5 C’s

+History of Rock That Movie Night!

Mr. Qiu’s students participated on a volunteer base and got extra credit

In-class project for Ms. Wang’s students

Last year, students dubbed English movies with Chinese voices, which can be seen on http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/teachlearn/dclt/Forum_April_2012

+History of Rock That Movie Night! Last year’s winners won:

Extra Credit for their Chinese class Certificates from NYU NYU T-shirts Pride A powerful addition to their college applications

(extracurricular activities and honors)

There were a great number of very imaginative entries into the competition, which inspires more interest for the Chinese language etc.

+What Rock That Movie Night did for students and teachers last year It gave students an opportunity to apply what they’ve

learned in a creative way

It was a very meaningful project for students, who were very excited by it

It provided authentic learning experiences for an authentic audiences through very culturally relevant and familiar topics

It encouraged teachers to explore more about Storytelling techniques/strategies and adapt them in teaching practice

It helped promote collaboration and learning within the Chinese teacher community, while creating higher expectations of ourselves 闭门造车

+Rock That Movie Year 1

+Rules for the 2013 Competition: Students Formats to choose from:

stop action, live movie, video of puppet show, photo story

Length: 5-7 minutes (2-3 scenes) of meaningful conversation

Process: Script writing Peer Editing (first round) Teacher Editing (second round) Final version Read to teacher (optional) for pronunciation

Final movie due April 1

+Teacher Contract

Teachers are not permitted to write the script.

Teachers must treat this as authentic student work.

Teachers may help edit student work by pointing out what kind of mistake it is, but students should figure out how to write the sentence by themselves.

No help in structure of the video, creative aspects, storyline.

Teacher may work with students on pronunciation

Teachers may have walk-on roles 路人甲 but may not be a main character in the movie.

Teachers upload videos (so students have privacy) by school

+Making your video greatwithout Hollywood Gear

Acting know the lines well never read shoot in short scenes be expressive! Use eye contact and body language while the character is speaking:

look at the camera speaker’s lips should be shown in the video never turn one’s back to the camera add subtitles to the video while post-processing

+Show a video!!!!

+Join Us!

Check out more student videos from our website;

Join our mail list and stay tuned for the winner of 2013 Rock That Movie Contest.

You know you want your students to win the 2014 Rock That Movie Contest :)

+Thank you!

Frank TangNew York UniversityFrank.tang@nyu.edu

Bing QiuBronx High School of

Scienceqiu@bxscience.edu

Robin HarveyNew York University

Robin.harvey@Nyu.edu

Xuan Wang Sidwell Friends Schoolwangx@sidwell.edu