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What Can we Learn? Mapping the activities onto literacy and learning frameworks 21 st Century Skills :: Arg Activities Mapping Sample activities to literacy skills ARG activities :: Content Area Standards ARG activities :: AASL Standards for 21 st Century Learner

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Page 1: Mapping Literacy Skills to Transmedia Storytelling Lessons

What Can we Learn?Mapping the activities

onto literacy and learning frameworks

• 21st Century Skills :: Arg Activities

• Mapping Sample activities to literacy skills

• ARG activities :: Content Area Standards

• ARG activities :: AASL Standards for 21st Century Learner

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21st Century Literacies• Gather: finding, accessing, & evaluating• Make sense: analyzing, synthesizing, &

reflecting• Solve: problem solving, experimenting, &

innovating• Create: creating, remixing, & modifying• Manage: managing, organizing, & preserving• Respect: acting ethically, respectfully, and

legally• Collaborate: collaborating & communicating

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Educational componentsLearning activities

• Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document

• Design Patent Search Exercise• Morse Code clues• “New” patent Model creation

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Learning OutcomesTransmedia literacy skills applied

Gallery of Gadgetry document

(Design) Patent Search

Morse Code clues

“New” Patent Model

Make Sense: analyzing, synthesizing, reflecting X X XGather: finding, accessing, evaluating X XSolve: problem-solving, experimenting, innovating X X

Manage: managing, organizing, preserving X XCreate: creating, remixing, modifying XCollaborate: collaborating and communicating X X X X

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Analyzing the Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document (Patent Office History)

NCTE: “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate texts. . . . They draw upon other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”

depositary, n. a person with whom anything is lodged in trust…one to whom anything is committed or confided.

arcane, a. hidden, concealed, secret.

Definitions from Oxford English Dictionary online.NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English

1853: Villette xviii, C. Bronte "I have never been the depositary of her plans and secrets."

1876 E. Gosse in Academy 9 Dec. 557 “Walking in the arcane world of wonder.”

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NCSS Theme 2: Time, Continuity and Change: include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy. NCSS Theme 8: Science, Technology, and Society: include experiences that provide for the study of relationships among science, technology and society.

Finding, Analyzing, managing Patent Searches and constructing a New Patent Model

NCSS: National Council for the Social Studies

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Activity Related Curricular standard Knowledge, Processes, Products

Gallery of Gadgetry

• NCTE: “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate texts. . . . They draw upon other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”•NCSS Theme 3: People, Places, and Environments: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of people, places, and environments.

Knowledge: Learners will understand some “characteristics of Industrialization in the late 19th century in the US”Processes: Learners will be able to identify, seek, describe, and evaluate multiple sources and points of view regarding the Patent Office historyProducts: Learners demonstrate understanding by correctly identifying the various depositaries (eg., W.W.) and possible purpose behind the cabinet of curiosities.

“New” Patent Model Assemblage

NCSS Theme 2: Time, Continuity and Change: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of the past and its legacy

Knowledge: Learners will understand characteristics of 19th century patent models and the processes for developing/approving themProcesses: Learners will be able to identify the information needed for acquiring and managing new Patent models and collaborate to develop their own Products: Learners will demonstrate understanding by collaborating and designing a “new patent model

ARG Activity Content Area Standards

NCTE: National Council of Teachers of EnglishNCSS: National Council for the Social StudiesNCTM: National Council of Teachers of Math

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Activity Related Curricular standard Knowledge, Processes, Products

Morse Code Decoding

•NCTM: Develop fluency in operations with patterns, and sequencing; generalize patterns using explicitly defined functions

Knowledge: Learners will recognize and understand simple symbolic systems used to encode diplomatic communications of the time period

Processes: Learners will be able to identify symbolic communications systems and their encoding/decoding processes

Products: Learners demonstrate understanding with completed design cards

Design Patent Searches

•NCSS Theme 8: Science, Technology, and Society: Social studies programs include experiences that provide for the study of relationships among science, technology and society

Knowledge: Learners will understand the technology invention, innovation, federal patent process of the time period

Processes: Learners will be able to identify historical events and individuals related to the Patent process in the US

Products: Learners demonstrate understanding with their Decoded messages; completed design patent cards

ARG Activity Content Area Standards

NCTE: National Council of Teachers of EnglishNCSS: National Council for the Social StudiesNCTM: National Council of Teachers of Math

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Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry document (Patent Office History)

Standard 1: Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge

Skills 1.1.6: Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format in order to make inferences and gather meaningExample: Study the image of the document, to include its calligraphy, handwriting style, diction. Study the links to resources that are embedded in the blog references. Dispositions in Action 1.2.4: Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of informationExample: Check hyperlinked references from conference blog, use dates on inventory, etc.

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.4: Use technology and other information tools to analyze and organize informationExample: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, individuals, etc.Dispositions in Action 2.2.1: Demonstrate flexibility in the use of resources by adapting information strategies to each specific resource and seeking additional resources when clear conclusions cannot be drawnExample: Compare & contrast Patent Office documents, conference blog, other related web resources (e.g., “Temple of Invention” history, “Patent Office Pony”)

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

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Design Patent Searches (including morse code sub-activity)

Standard 1: Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge

Skills 1.1.4: Find, evaluate, and select appropriate sources to answer questionsExample: Search/Evaluate Patent Office cards and information resources; related blog.Dispositions in Action 1.2.5: Demonstrate adaptability by changing the inquiry focus, questions, resources, or strategies when necessary to achieve success.Example: Consider parts of designs and other partial information to resolve a ‘whole’ relevant model

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.5: Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problemsExample: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, etcDispositions in Action 2.2.2: Use both divergent and convergent thinking to formulate alternative conclusions and test them against the evidence.Example: Alternate between model/invention parts and whole invention; between individual morse symbols and decoded messages

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

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“New” Patent Model Assemblage

Standard 2: Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge

Skills 2.1.6: Use the writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.Example: Organize results and possible solutions by dates, etcDispositions in Action 2.2.4: Demonstrate personal productivity by completing products to express learning.Example: A “new” patent model!

Standard 3: Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society

Skills 3.1.2: Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learnersExample: Working in teams to create a “new” modelResponsibilities 3.3.4: Create products that apply to authentic, real-world contexts.Example: Simulate the patent model creation and curation process.

ARG Activity AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner