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

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Victor GonzálezM.A in e-learning and

Education

AGIS 2016

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