digital english - mystory doing academic writing differently

ania rolińska @anzbau

english for academic study university of glasgow

mystory

digital english

identity box

inner narrative

outer narrative

delivery

context

course design

mystory

evalaution

rationale

context

context

affective

academic culture

geography

self language

In my opinion the real writer should disobey the rules and formulate their own style, coz originality is valuable and pretty important. However, in most cases, if we try to smash the model or the writing skills, we may get a undesirable mark. So, what should I do?

(Student’s voice)

rationale

academic l iteracies lens

focus on students’ writing literacy as social practice literacy as transformation (Lillis and Scott, 2007)

digital l iteracies lens

Rather than

focusing on

technologies and

applications […]

attention is on the

texts that are

associated with

these digital

contexts.

Lea (2013)

/ Ulmer’s electracy // Gauntlett’s Lego research // cognitivism and critical pedagogy /

other inspiration sources

inspiration: Ulmer ’s mystory

‘the internet puts us in a new relation to writing’ digital hypermedia , with its associative logic of creative thinking and the aesthetic of popular culture might work toward creating a more responsible, active and digitally literate prosumer ‘the individual state of mind within which knowing takes place’ creating a visual record of their inner voice elaborating on their professional/ethnic/familial/pop-culture identity as a focal point for developing a more objective and formal narration which problematises the student’s everyday experience in light of background research (‘relay’)

From or based on Ulmer (2003)

inspiration: Gauntlett ’s Lego research

It gets participants communicating more fully, creatively and expressively, by asking them to build metaphors of their identities and experiences in Lego. People think about things differently when making something, using their hands – it leads to a deeper and more reflective engagement. By using creative methods to understand how people think about themselves and their identities, I do think that also helps us to understand how people learn. People learn effectively through making things (Papert and Harel, 1991). People learn better when they are creatively challenged (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990).

All quotes come from: Gauntlett and Holzwarth (2006)

inspiration: cognitivism & critical ped

The student is engaged in doing and making the education Learning space that is: • participatory • situated • critical • democratic • dialogic • desocialised from passivity • research oriented • affective

Based on Shor (1993)

course design

constructive alignment (Biggs, 2003)

intended learning outcomes

teaching activities assessments

learning

http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/

constructive alignment (Biggs, 2003)

course content (Csikszentmihalyi , 1996)

course delivery

course delivery

participants

tools

processes

outputs

participants

participants

Year-Round PS Course winter 2014 China, Iraq, Saudi Arabia IELTS 5-6 UG / Professional experience intro to academic practices

I am … I will …

I am … I will … profession PhD MA

I am … I will … profession PhD MA

This journey is being here in Glasgow to complete my study. To be prepared for this stage, I have to be confident, patient and thoughtful. During my study I am going to meet people from different cultures and religions so, I have to be communicative, flexible and diplomatic.

I am … I will … profession PhD MA

This journey is being here in Glasgow to complete my study. To be prepared for this stage, I have to be confident, patient and thoughtful. During my study I am going to meet people from different cultures and religions so, I have to be communicative, flexible and diplomatic.

I am …

I am …

It is strong and patient and can carry loads and weights, it does not matter how heavy they are and this is what really we need in order to face our demanding and challenging life.

I am …

It is strong and patient and can carry loads and weights, it does not matter how heavy they are and this is what really we need in order to face our demanding and challenging life.

I am always trying to look for the whole image, like birds having a wider image from the sky … Confident, birds do not care if somebody is watching them, they always try to do what they have to do … I never limit my potential or abilities, just like birds I spread my wings ...

I am …

It is strong and patient and can carry loads and weights, it does not matter how heavy they are and this is what really we need in order to face our demanding and challenging life.

This picture might describe me in terms of focusing on one target ... Maybe I'm relaxing or having a good time but it doesn't mean that I don't have a target in my life ...

I am always trying to look for the whole image, like birds having a wider image from the sky … Confident, birds do not care if somebody is watching them, they always try to do what they have to do … I never limit my potential or abilities, just like birds I spread my wings ...

I am …

It is strong and patient and can carry loads and weights, it does not matter how heavy they are and this is what really we need in order to face our demanding and challenging life.

This picture might describe me in terms of focusing on one target ... Maybe I'm relaxing or having a good time but it doesn't mean that I don't have a target in my life ...

Wedding dress also has another meaning that can stand for my character, that is always keeping hope. Hope is the personality trait that makes a human be a true human.

I am always trying to look for the whole image, like birds having a wider image from the sky … Confident, birds do not care if somebody is watching them, they always try to do what they have to do … I never limit my potential or abilities, just like birds I spread my wings ...

I am …

It is strong and patient and can carry loads and weights, it does not matter how heavy they are and this is what really we need in order to face our demanding and challenging life.

This picture might describe me in terms of focusing on one target ... Maybe I'm relaxing or having a good time but it doesn't mean that I don't have a target in my life ...

Wedding dress also has another meaning that can stand for my character, that is always keeping hope. Hope is the personality trait that makes a human be a true human.

I am always trying to look for the whole image, like birds having a wider image from the sky … Confident, birds do not care if somebody is watching them, they always try to do what they have to do … I never limit my potential or abilities, just like birds I spread my wings ...

course tools

course tools

technological skills sensitive towards identities and pluralities

New London School (1996); Gourlay and Oliver (2013)

Rather than focusing on technologies and applications […] attention is on

the texts that are associated with these digital contexts.

Lea (2013)

course tools

independent & critical thinking

curation

peer review

reflection

visuality

creativity

effective communication

ethical awareness

digital textual practices

course processes

listening

listening

listening

listening

effective communicator

creative commons

creative commons

creative commons ethical awareness

reflection

reflective learner

Reflection is like your feedback. But it goes deeper than feedback … it includes deep

thinking, special opinions which add to your own experiences. It is also an opportunity to

improve your knowledge and a way to get clarity outside of the “moment”. When you

express your thoughts and what you have learned in context and spent time to think about

it from different angles …

lessons from hypertext

‘Everything is deeply interwingled’ from Ted Nelson’s Dream Machines

The Internet puts us in the new relationship to writing (Ulmer, 2003)

lessons from hypertext

lessons from hypertext independent & critical thinker

lessons from hypertext independent & critical thinker

lessons from hypertext independent & critical thinker

commenting

commenting

independent & critical thinker

course outcomes

course outcomes

course outcomes

researching identities

Relating to the metaphors arrangement, the choice of the tree (family) as a head of turtle describes the significant importance of the family in his life, like his vision. On the other hands, the green apple (diet) and glasses (studying) as the legs of turtle which made him stand up again after many failures. The memories were up of the shell, which occupy the most of his thinking while his work and creativity as a base of his life (base of turtle). The central position of the theme was the core of communication and peaceful principles he believes. Source: http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/Group+4%C2%A0Report

researching identities

In contrast, female identity 1, she represented her studying experience by long lonely road in the desert to imply how much it is a hard, lonely and boring journey. As she is a new international student this may be a reflection of the distress stage of culture shock when everything seems difficult and annoying (UKCISA, 2008). International students are more liable to experience some emotional and academic difficulties as a result of being away from family and home country. On the other hand, this is has a positive impact on their personality which made them more independent and ambitious to achieve their goals and dreams. Also, the experience of studying abroad may lead to a wider vision and consideration of their identities as an essential and crucial unit of the whole world. Source: http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/Group+3%C2%A0Report

In conclusion, the new culture environment brings various effects to the international students no matter where they come from. Most of the impacts are positive, such as the concern of future, the explore inspiration and self-motivation. However, there still comes with some negative influences. For instance, the loneliness easily leads to loss of self-confidence. Therefore, it will helps a lot to clarify oneself by creating own identity box. Source: http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/Group+2+Report

researching identities

To sum up, this project give the student the opportunity to portray their identities in more efficient and sensible way than other traditional interviewing methods. In addition, this was a very useful way to help the international student to express their identities and show up what they might be suffering from, happy to achieve or different feelings regarding being away from family. Source: http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/Group+3%C2%A0Report

evalaution

This project helped me … 1. Understand the visual culture 2. Use the visuals for academic and social purposes 3. Create identity box using different sites 4. Analyse metaphors 5. Express feelings and emotions using identity box 6. Understand myself more as an expatriate 7. Use the right ways and academic conditions to comment on others works 8. Focus on the digital literacy in terms of using social medias such as blogs for

academic purposes 9. Develop several skills such as communication skills, working within groups and

pairs, investigating problems, finding solutions, writing essays and reports, using variety of references and resources to get new information, innovation skills , class participation skills, listening and commenting skills ......etc

10.This course was a good introduction for my masters course (sociology). It taught me a new methodology (using visuals) that is used in order to analyze people's feelings, emotions, problems and desires rather than interviews and questionnaires

Source: http://manalawati89.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/this-project-helped-me-to-1-understand.html

student’s voice

Biggs, J. (2003) Aligning teaching for constructing learning. The Higher Education Academy. Online: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/resource_database/id477_aligning_teaching_for_constructing_learning Accessed 16/11/2016. Czikszentmihalyi, M. (1996). Creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. Gauntlett, D. (2007) Creative Explorations. Routledge. Gauntlett, D. and Holzwarth, P. (2006) Creative and visual methods for exploring identities. Online: http://www.artlab.org.uk/interview-mar06.htm Accessed 13 June 2015. Gourlay, L. & Oliver, M. (2013) Beyond ‘the social’: digital literacies as sociomaterial practice, in R. Goodfellow & M. Lea (Eds) Literacy in the Digital University: Critical Perspectives on Learning, Scholarship and Technology (Research into Higher Education). Routledge, Taylor & Francis: London/New York, 79-94. Lea, M.R. (2013) Reclaiming literacies: competing textual practices in a digital higher education, Teaching in Higher Education, 18(1), 106-118. Lillis, T. and Scott, M. (2007). Defining academic literacies research: issues of epistemology, ideology and strategy. Journal of Applied Linguistics, 4(1), pp. 5–32. The New London Group (1996) A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures. Harvard Education Review, 66(1), 60-92. Ulmer, G.L. (2003) Internet invention: from literacy to electracy. New York: Pearson Education. Shor, I. (1993) Education is politics: Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy. In P. McLaren and P. Leonard (Eds). Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter. London: Routledge, pp. 25-35.

Rolińska, A. (2015). Digital English – me, online, writing & academia. In K. Borthwick, E. Corradini, A. Dickens. (Eds), 10 years of the LLAS elearning symposium: case studies in good practice (pp. 127-137). Dublin Ireland: Research-publishing.net. doi:10.14705/rpnet.2015.000273 http://digitalenglish-mystory.wikispaces.com/ http://digital-english.weebly.com/

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Outcome by rafa_luque https://flic.kr/p/cJMcjq

Field Box by Steve https://flic.kr/p/4to63U He Didn't "Mind The Gap" by Scott Smith https://flic.kr/p/8xuuWT TRENCH®, a portuguese jewel translated into LEGO form by Marcos Bessa https://flic.kr/p/kb2vNX Special delivery by stavos https://flic.kr/p/jSgJ1d Biker by stavos https://flic.kr/p/fi1tN8 Evaluation by Fotologic https://flic.kr/p/nfEeVP Desktop Sketching by Eric Heupel https://flic.kr/p/bbqqTR Through the lens… by Peter Hellberg https://flic.kr/p/8GsPac Questioned proposal by Ethan Lofton https://flic.kr/p/4S8uZe Water Pipit - Anthus spinoletta - Bisbita alpina - El grito - The Scream by Ferran Pestaña https://flic.kr/p/8Vxnre Danboard Package Received by Louish Pixel https://flic.kr/p/9z7CMv shadow silhouette by LoggaWiggler http://pixabay.com/en/shadow-shadow-play-hispanic-human-198682/ bibliography (early sign of trouble) by papertrix https://flic.kr/p/4mUry Inquire, Learn, Reflect by mrsdohpaz https://flic.kr/p/4mSyZ9 rosemary.reilman.com Experiencing, Learning, Reflecting by Denise Krebs https://flic.kr/p/dZu4aS From text to hypertext by [Ed] https://flic.kr/p/hKcZwG Hypermedia by Dominik W. Neuffer https://flic.kr/p/8wAWLg

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