Language learning and digital comics
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Victor González discusses using online comics in the classroom. Comics can represent complex material in a way that reduces cognitive load while portraying sophisticated concepts. Some benefits of using comics in education include converting stories, poems, interviews or current events into comic form. González provides 20 ideas for student comic projects, such as creating comics from class lessons, biographies, instructions or discoveries. When using online comics, teachers should set clear learning goals, challenge students without overloading them cognitively, and ensure high quality content and effective assessment. Comics can bring youth culture into the classroom in an engaging way.
Language learning and digital comics
- 1. Digital Generators and Online Comics Victor González M.A in e-learning and Education AGIS 2016
- 5. 1970s: teachers dared to bring comics into the classrooms
- 7. Maus: First comic book to win the Pulitzer prize
- 8. Artistic, mature literary works
- 11. Graduate programs in comics
- 12. Promoting comics in education
- 26. In comics, complex material is represented in ways that reduce the cognitive demand of reading dense text while sophisticated concepts are portrayed.
- 27. How can we use online comics in the classroom?
- 28. 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.
- 29. 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...
- 30. 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
- 31. 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
- 32. An opportunity to bring youth culture into the classroom
- 36. exuc.org Victor González M.A in e-learning and Education AGIS 2016