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Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity

This is a curated list of resources for multimedia research projects, digital stories, and authentic, student-centered learning.
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STUDENT EXAMPLES

Good Job Dave PSA about climate change
https://vimeo.com/895069452/bfdededc87?share=copy 

There Is Light documentary about Vietnam
https://vimeo.com/436197521

Plastic Jungle website by Agata Nalin
https://express.adobe.com/page/DzQ3SC4FDXAMQ/?fbclid=PAAabjoBXErqLVX4oCsYpvLrZWLFsxTmMRq4OP94SIQ-ktOxMf2PUjE2I0emc

Dilation literary magazine (digital book)
​https://books.apple.com/us/book/dilation-magazine/id6450068629

FEATURED TEACHERS

Karrin Burns
https://www.linkedin.com/in/karrin-burns-007580169/


The Chat With Mrs. Burns’ Third Grade Class podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-chat-with-mrs-burnss-third-grade/id1688216914


Jodie Deinhammer

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodie-deinhammer-24b2802a/


Books by Jodie

https://books.apple.com/us/book/bugs/id1500809066


Dan Ryder

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danryder207/


Critical Creativity book

https://www.amazon.com/Intention-Creativity-Classroom-Amy-Burvall/dp/1945167327


Leah Lacrosse

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-lacrosse-b184323a/


Old woman creek book

https://books.apple.com/us/book/old-woman-creek/id1046338054

GENERAL RESOURCES

Ken Burns on Storytelling
https://vimeo.com/40972394


Journalism (STEM for the Humanities)

Society of Professional Journalists

https://www.journaliststoolbox.org/


Journalism Education Association

https://jea.org/wp/


National Scholastic Press Association

https://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.
https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53123/how-to-teach-students-historical-inquiry-through-media-literacy-and-critical-thinking

“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
https://cesr.usc.edu/sites/default/files/Knowledge%20in%20Action%20Efficacy%20Study_18feb2021_final.pdf

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