Storytelling With Purpose Resources
This is a curated list of resources for multimedia research projects, digital stories, and authentic, student-centered learning to support the projects from the book, Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity.
Student examples
There Is Light documentary about Vietnam
Good Job Dave PSA about climate changePlastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin
Dilation literary magazine (digital book)
Plastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin
Featured teachers
General resources
Journalism (STEM for the Humanities)
Society of Professional Journalists https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/
Journalism Education Association https://jea.org/wp/
National Scholastic Press Associationhttps://studentpress.org/nspa/
Student Press Law Center https://splc.org/
Research and related resources
“But for the most part their curiosity was directed towards social and extracurricular interests — not schoolwork. The challenge for teachers is finding a way to encourage interest in what’s happening in class.”
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51538/the-benefits-of-cultivating-curiosity-in-kids
Research: “The more we want to know an answer, the more memorable it becomes”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x
How to teach civics through inquiry based learning KQED
“We teach kids facts as ready-made without giving them the capacity and cultivating the capability to ask what is the relationship between claim and evidence,” The need for media literacy to teach civics.
“Encouraging kids to think like detectives”
Research: “The more we want to know an answer, the more memorable it becomes” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02402.x
Harvard Project Zero, “see, think, wonder”
https://pz.harvard.edu/resources/see-think-wonder
Why are we teaching science wrong and how to change it:
https://www.nature.com/articles/523272a
“Read the world”
https://ncte.org/blog/2020/01/reading-world-case-multimodal-literacy/
Factors That Influence Sense of Place as a Learning Outcome and Assessment Measure of Place-Based Geoscience Teaching
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.454.544&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Effects of Experiential Learning Programmes on Adolescent Prosocial Behaviour, Empathy, and Subjective Well-being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.709699/full
Effects of project-based learning on AP test scores