Environmental E‐Books and Green Goals: Changing Places, Flipping Spaces, and Real‐izing the Curriculum
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2014
Keywords
Content literacy, Domain knowledge, Specific subject areas (math, art, etc.), Text types, text features, Digital/media literacies, Information and communication technologies, New literacies, Specific media (hypertext, Internet, film, music, etc.), Family literacy, Community‐based programs, resources, Motivation/engagement, Choice, preference, Expectations, Interest, Self‐efficacy, Research methodology, Field work, Formative experiments, design experiments, Qualitative, Strategies, methods, and materials, Informational text, Instructional models, Instructional strategies, teaching strategies, Learning strategies, Supplementary resources, Writing strategies, Teacher education, professional development, Preservice, Theoretical perspectives, Writing, Audience, Genres, Modes, Purpose, Style, Writing across the curriculum, Childhood, Early adolescence
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.286
Abstract
Pre‐service teachers collaborated with 6th grade students to audit a College of Education building looking for possibilities to “go green.” The student/teacher teams developed an e‐book collection of project descriptions, completed budgets, estimated timelines, and sustainability requirements for the university to consider. The e‐books also included short films in which the students promoted their ideas for green awareness. In this project, flipping instructional spaces and real‐izing the curriculum created new possibilities for student‐led inquiry. In other words, literacy in the service of communicating meaningful messages, rather than literacy for literacy's sake, created a current of intent in which the students learned genres to achieve their green goals and the teachers learned how to develop authentic tasks and texts to develop students' expertise.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v. 57, issue 7, p. 549-564
Scholar Commons Citation
Schneider, Jenifer J.; Kozdras, Deborah; Wolkenhauer, Nathan; and Arias, Lisa, "Environmental E‐Books and Green Goals: Changing Places, Flipping Spaces, and Real‐izing the Curriculum" (2014). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 37.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/37
