20 effective ways to use digital comics in the classroom
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ECIS Conference Presentation. Amsterdam 2013.TRANSCRIPT
20 effective ways to use digital comics in the
classroom
Victor GonzálezM.A in e-learning and
Education
DC Comics: Robert Thorndike and Harold Dones created a language training book that used the comic Superman
The beginning of comics-supported curriculum
First academic journal articles about education and comics
Frederic Werthman
Comics kill reading
They had to be politically correct
Horror, zombie, terrorwere 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
Benefits of using comics in education
1) A great visual representation of knowledge
2) Easy to remember
3) Enrich reading writing and thinking
4) Perfect avenue for writing dialogue
5) Incite students with low interest in writing
6) Help organization through storytelling and storyboarding
7) Using visual images convey meaning to a story or topic
8) Sequencing promotes understanding
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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 assignment2. Write an interview3. Convert a story novel or poem4. Write an original story5. A current affairs item6. Reflection tool: excursion or class lesson7. About me8. Revision. Using vocabulary learned9. Bring song lyrics or poems to life10. Historical event-timeline11. Biographies12. A travel guide13. Tell weather stories
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14. Make an instruction manual15. Show an invention and how it has affected people16. Change an endling to a story17. Write about a discovery18. Share the cultural background of your family19. Make me laugh...20. Make me feel...
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An opportunity to bring young culture
into the classroom
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