language learning and digital comics
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Digital Generators and Online Comics
Victor GonzálezM.A in e-learning and
Education
AGIS 2016
1970s: teachers dared to bring comics into the classrooms
Visual and popular
Maus: First comic book to win the Pulitzer prize
Artistic, mature literary works
Graduate programs in comics
Promoting comics in education
In comics, complex material is represented in ways that reduce the cognitive demand of reading dense text while sophisticated concepts are portrayed.
How can we use online comics in the classroom?
Benefits of using comics in education
1. Sreen capture of your games and create a comicresearch assignment.2. Write an interview.3. Convert a story novel or poem.4. Write an original story.5. A current affairs item.6. Reflection tool: excursion or class lesson. 7. About me.8. Revision. Using vocabulary learned.9. Bring song lyrics or poems to life.10. Historical event-timeline. 11. Biographies.12. A travel guide.13. Tell weather stories.
14. Make an instruction manual.15. Show an invention and how it has affected people.16. Change an endling to a story.17. Write about a discovery.18. Share the cultural background of your family.19. Make me laugh...20. Make me feel...
Clear learning goals
Challenge the learner
Clearly defined idea of the target audience
Effective assessment tools
Avoid cognitive overload
Avoid digital distractions
Quality of content
4 periods of 40 minutes
Period 1: Project presentation / grammar
Period 2: Practise written / reading skills
Period 3: Written oral skills/ grammar
Period 4: Digital project
An opportunity to bring youth culture into the classroom
