Summer break is a great time to discover new ideas!
Enjoy! http://www.textmapping.org/whyUseScrolls.pdf
Scrolls open new avenues for reading research:
- They enable us to see the content in our books — both bound and digital — from an entirely new perspective.
- They help teachers teach, and students learn.
- They bring a new understanding of comprehension and learning differences.
- They help differently-abled individuals like myself become successful and active participants in the culture of ideas.
I'd like to collaborate on research. Interested? Or know somebody who might be? Let me know!
Thanks!
Dave
Comments
Hi, Dave -
Thanks for highlighting the benefits of using scrolls in the classroom. I think this is an important topic for more research. In addition to the benefits you've mentioned here, I also think that they have the potential to help learners develop storyboarding skills, which are applicable to careers in media, advertising, and business, to name a few.
Teaching strategies that support learners' comprehension of materials and, at the same time, help to develop a career-related skill set, is another reason we should be using scrolls with adult learners.
What are the questions that you're interested in focusing on in your research?
Best,
Mike
Disabilities in Adult Education Moderator
michaelcruse74@gmail.com
Hi Mike. Thanks for acknowledging the potential value of research on scrolls (Why Use Scrolls?). Ebooks have led researchers to describe some of the advantages of paper over digital. Scrolls could add real and substantial value to the ongoing work in understanding how the form of our books impacts how we read and what we learn.
I hadn't thought of storyboarding, or its link to career-related skill-sets. Interesting example. I like it. On a similar line of thought, I have been told that textbook designers often work this way -- hanging all of the pages of a chapter on a wall, so that they can see the whole thing. Again, this is a link to a concrete, career-related skill.
As to my research questions: There are many. I'll start with these general questions:
So those are a few questions to start with. Please share Why Use Scrolls? with your colleagues -- and most especially the researchers and teacher-researchers who you know.
Thanks!
- Dave
Hi David,
I'm so excited to see the work you've done with scrolls! I'm a teacher-researcher who's used scrolls in a very different way. I used them as a replacement for textbooks, to create a student-centered curriculum. Using a large roll of buther paper, I cut and tape a 6' x 3' piece on the wall and draw a chart with headings that relate to students' lives and they dictate to me to fill in information. Later, I type up the charts and pass them out and they're the foundation of our lesson plans and activities. I've presented the scroll-based curriculum at conferences as part of culturally responsive teaching, using the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm as the model of instruction. Would love to continue the discussion. I'd love to share the slides, which have been uploaded to NYS TESOL website, but I don't know how else to make them available.
Looking forward to more discussion!
nan