混合式教学中作文同伴互评的应用研究

“互联网+”时代的到来,使得在线教学不仅仅在传统高校得到应用,在中小学教育教学中也萌发新芽。研究选取40名初一学生进行为期一学期的初中语文作文同伴互评混合式教学实践,探讨了混合式教学中作文同伴互评的应用。研究采用行动研究,以知识建构理论为指导,设计建构了以“观点为中心”的混合式教学中作文同伴互评的应用流程,以此改革初中作文教学。研究结果表明:作文同伴互评的混合式教学,有助于促进学生作文兴趣的提升;有助于促进学生作文水平的提高;有助于充实和延伸初中语文作文教学。研究是“互联网+”环境下信息技术与语文作文教学深度融合的一项应用,会对初中语文作文教学方式改革产生一定影响。     

English in classrooms: only write down what you need to know: annotation for what?

The annotation of texts in the school English classroom is central to the curriculum, examination and the history of English as a school subject. In this paper we explore ‘the way it is done’ across two different classrooms. We focus on the relationship between official definitions of annotation offered by national policies and examination syllabuses and its actualization in particular classrooms. The article takes a multimodal approach: attending to all modes of representation and communication in the teaching of English including image, gesture, gaze and the spatial organization of the classroom.     

Educational narrative inquiry through design-based research: designing digital storytelling to make alternative knowledge visible and actionable

This paper describes the conceptualisation and appropriation of narrative in the design of digital storytelling technology (DST), to augment reflective practice among Irish pre-service teachers. Reflective practice remains a predominant professional formation component of programmes of teacher education. In this key developmental activity, teacher education traditionally privileges written reflections, e.g. pro forma post-lesson evaluations and essays. Our aim in this research was to supplement, not supplant, these important written reflective modalities, and by doing so, open up a wider set of possibilities for using narrative and technology to support creative, potentially transformative reflection on practice. We have been inspired significantly in this DST work by Bruner’s ([2002]. Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) functional view of narrative inquiry – that storytelling serves as the principal, foundational means by which we form our identities, relate to others and make sense of our place in the world. We thus sought to explore how innovative storytelling designs, combined with, and augmented by digital technology, might afford new narrative inquiry possibilities for pre-service students to conceptualise, create and collaborate in their early-career, reflective practices. This paper presents R-NEST, the educational design we developed in a principled and participatory fashion over 3 years, collaboratively with 323 student teachers. We trace the narrative of the development and refinement of the bespoke R-NEST design, illustrated with analysis of an exemplar, student-designed digital story. The paper concludes with insights regarding the creative, reflective use of DST, suggesting potentially wide scope for this mode of narrative technology in education.