Explanatory Animations in the Classroom
Student-Authored Animations as Digital Pedagogy
Authors: Jacobs, Brendan
Free Preview- Reports on groundbreaking research into explanatory animation creationMakes learning visible to improve quality and student engagementProvides an authentic context for using digital technologies to enhance learningIncludes four design principles, seven key findings, and ten distinct subcategories of the animation genre
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This book provides groundbreaking evidence demonstrating how student-authored explanatory animations can embody and document learning as an exciting new development within digital pedagogy. Explanatory animations can be an excellent resource for teaching and learning but there has been an underlying assumption that students are predominately viewers rather than animation authors. The methodology detailed in this book reverses this scenario by putting students in the driver’s seat of their own learning. This signals not just a change in perspective, but a complete change in activity that, to continue the analogy, will forever change the conversation and make redundant phrases like “Are we there yet?” and “How much longer?” The digital nature of such practices provides compelling evidence for reconceptualising explanatory animation creation as a pedagogical activity that generates multimodal assessment data. Tying together related themes to advance approaches to evidence-based assessment using digital technologies, this book is intended for educators at any stage of their journey, including pre-service teachers.
- About the authors
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Dr Brendan Jacobs spent most of his career in primary school classrooms before publishing an early example of a multimodal PhD dissertation through the University of Melbourne. Since entering academia, he has published widely in journals and spoken at various international conferences on learning and technology. Brendan works in teacher education as a lecturer at the Mackay City campus of CQUniversity Australia.
- Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Introduction—Learning from the Driver’s Seat
Pages 1-19
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Theoretical Framework
Pages 21-38
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Methodology and the Explanatory Animation Framework (EAF)
Pages 39-57
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Insights from the Reverse Engineering Explanatory Animation Learning Method (REALM)
Pages 59-80
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Explanatory Animations in the Classroom
- Book Subtitle
- Student-Authored Animations as Digital Pedagogy
- Authors
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- Brendan Jacobs
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-15-3525-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-3525-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-981-15-3524-6
- Series ISSN
- 2211-1921
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 80
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour
- Topics