Post on 15-Jul-2015
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DC Comics: Robert Thorndike and Harold Dones
created a language training book that used the comic
Superman.
In comics, complex material is represented in ways
that reduce the cognitive demand of reading dense
text while sophisticated concepts are portrayed.
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.
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
Including a varety of learning approaches
Clearly defined idea of the target audience
Effective assessment tools
Avoid cognitive overload
Avoid digital distractions
Quality of content
Including a varety of learning approaches