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Quickfire Analysis

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Quickfire Analysis:

 How Online Tools Can Engage Students in Meaningful Analysis

Presented BY: Jennifer Ward

Digital Literacy Conference

Saturday, October 13, 2012

West Chester University

http://bit.ly/QuickfireAnalysis

 

What is a QuickFire Challenge?

 

Pulling from an idea that started on the television series Top Chef, many teachers are now using Quickfire Challenges in the classroom as a way to introduce potentially complicated material in a way that engages students by asking them to play with ideas in a limited format. Blogger and teacher Leigh Graves-Wolf explains, "In a nutshell, in each episode, the chefs are challenged to cook a dish with certain constraints (i.e. ingredients, themes) within a tight time frame. As I watched the show, I thought, mmmm, I should remix/co-opt this for my teaching!" 

 

COMPONENTS OF A QUICKFIRE CHALLENGE:

Adapted from the Brigham Young University Wikipage for Teaching Spanish

 

1) Talk less, plan for students to do more


2) Simplify instructions (Words, words, words!)

    • No more than 5 steps
    • No more than 7-10 words per step
    • Model FIRST
    • Write key words on the board, handout, or PowerPoint slide
    • Use images to support comprehension

 

3) Scaffold

    • Where is the activity likely to break down?
    • What supports can you add into the structure and processes of the activity to maintain "flow" for students?


4) Don't pre-teach vocabulary--let students learn it through the activity

5) Activities should build to a final creative product that invites self-expression

 

A SUCCESSFUL QUICKFIRE CHALLENGE CONSIDERS...

How the key elements work together to produce a meaningful learning experience

    • PURPOSE drives the content, process, tools, and final product
    • CONSTRAINTS support creativity by establishing specific limits re: "ingredients," theme, time, tools
    • CONTENT CREATION a critical element of synthesis and personal integration of content knowledge & skills
    • SOCIAL SHARING promotes sharing of expertise with authentic audiences, along with expansion of personal learning networks

Our QuickFire Challenge

 

  • We will break into small groups. Each group will be given the same poem - "Nothing's Changed" by Tatamkhulu Afrika.
  • Pairs will randomly select a presentation tool and randomly select a literary device.
  • The groups will have 30 minutes to create a presentation using that tool.
  • The presentation should incorporate: 
      • a definition of that literary device with hyperlinked citation,
      • application of that literary device to poem "Nothing's Changed", and
      • images or video to support the analysis.
  • Your purpose is to entice fellow educators to think about how technology can aid in student literary analysis.
  • When you are finished, your presentation will be linked to this page.

Our Presentations:

 

http://lleullin.edu.glogster.com/connontation

 

 

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1d9KadJi02JJUxZFuOJp-Bu8pfRefurDC9pe7HVsyMmI/edit#slide=id.p

 

 

 

 

 


Why Use This Format with Technology to Teach Literary Analysis?

Let's brainstorm!

  • We'll add our ideas here

 

 


 

 

 

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