Environmental E‐Books and Green Goals: Changing Places, Flipping Spaces, and Real‐izing the Curriculum

Jenifer J. Schneider, Deborah Kozdras, Nathan Wolkenhauer, Lisa Arias, Jenifer Jasinski Schneider

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Abstract

<p> Pre&hyphen;service teachers collaborated with 6th grade students to audit a College of Education building looking for possibilities to &ldquo;go green.&rdquo; The student/teacher teams developed an e&hyphen;book collection of project descriptions, completed budgets, estimated timelines, and sustainability requirements for the university to consider. The e&hyphen;books also included short films in which the students promoted their ideas for green awareness. In this project, flipping instructional spaces and real&hyphen;izing the curriculum created new possibilities for student&hyphen;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.</p>
Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Adolescent Adult Literacy
Volume57
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 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
  • 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

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