Title

The Use Of Digital Story Expressions With Adolescents To Promote Content Area Literacy

Abstract

The meaning of literacy has evolved to include digital, electronic, and visual expressions. Students enter classrooms possessing a level of proficiency with these new literacy skills, yet they encounter predominantly traditional print formats. Research suggested incorporating digital technologies into instruction has the potential to enhance reading comprehension, as well as foster the development of critical thinking. This chapter describes how two middle school teachers, a language arts teacher and a social studies teacher, incorporate digital story expressions into their curriculum as a way to address both students' and teachers' digital knowledge, skills, and behaviors. This process, detailed in this chapter, includes taking an initial assessment of students' skills levels, developing cross-curricular connections, drafting an assessment plan, and maintaining collaborative efforts during the instructional sequence.

Publication Date

11-30-2013

Publication Title

Academic Knowledge Construction and Multimodal Curriculum Development

Number of Pages

243-255

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4797-8.ch015

Socpus ID

84945156371 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84945156371

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