Title of Activity/Assignment: Language in Your Life
Artifact Description:
Students will share their lives as linguals who use language daily. Students will do this by a “photovoice ” process using a video platform. Students will take photos that speak to questions about what it is like to be multilingual. They will narrate and organize them into a story that they feel conveys language used in their daily lives. This photovoice can be used to influence the way they see policy and educational decisions that affect them. They will share a small selection of photos and discuss the images together, identify themes, and develop narrative captions for the pictures.
Rationale:
This activity is essential for teacher education students who are primarily multilingual and will be teaching multilingual students. In this course, we read about language, bilingualism, and translanguaging. This assignment focuses on the use of language in their lives. Teachers must know their students by listening to their voices and learning who they are.
In this course, students learn about culturally responsive pedagogy and funds of knowledge and its importance in getting to know our students. Educators can leverage students’ learning experiences by knowing what students bring to the table. Including students’ background knowledge and experiences in lesson plans and class activities increase engagement, and students feel valued and represented. Photovoice can be used to demonstrate how teachers can learn about their students’ backgrounds and multi-language use.
Through this activity, students will learn about other students’ experiences with multi-language use and reflect on their own. This includes their experiences and knowledge, which other classmates and the professor will discuss and provide feedback. This activity will show that we have similar experiences as well as differences. Also, this activity will give students options to record themselves, speak, and write.
Computational Thinking Skills: Iteration, tinkering, modeling, and simulation.
The students complete two photovoice, which are done in weeks 2 and 3 of the semester. The CLO’s are:
- Students will use various digital tools and resources to create and revise digital artifacts.
- Students will select appropriate digital tools to communicate and collaborate while learning with others.
- Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting their creation or communication objectives.
- Students will communicate clearly and express themselves creatively using the platforms, tools, styles, formats, and digital media appropriate to their goals.
- Students will create original work or responsibly repurpose or remixed digital resources into new creations.
- Students will exhibit content knowledge content, pedagogical, and/or professional knowledge relevant to their credential or degree sought.
- Students will demonstrate culturally responsive practices.
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