language learning & digital comics
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Language Learning & Digital
Comics
Victor
GonzálezM.A in e-learning and
Education
AGIS 2015
DC Comics: Robert Thorndike and Harold Dones
created a language training book that used the comic
Superman.
First academic journal articles about education and comics
Comics kill reading
They had to be politically correct
Horror, zombie, terror
were banned
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 comic
research 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
Including a varety of learning approaches
Clearly defined idea of the target audience
Effective assessment tools
Avoid cognitive overload
Avoid digital distractions
Quality of content
Including a varety of learning approaches
An opportunity to bring young culture into the classroom
