The+Participatory+Classroom

=Participatory Culture= = Below are a list of projects we can implement in the English classroom that tap into participatory culture of our students =

1. Play – Rewrite / Build on /Continue / Create story of text 2. Performance – Inhabit Character 3. Simulation – Technology-based, Bringing in outside knowledge from games, Shoebox diorama 4. Appropriation – Multi-genre research paper? Too “asexual?” Radio documentary. Fan fiction. Crossover texts/juxtaposing texts for an authentic purpose 5. Multitasking – juggling ideas. Working with different themes simultaneously, over various texts. Single-task anxiety. Not oppositional, but complimentary skills. ACTIVELY engaged in two meaningful tasks 6. Distributed Cognition – 7. Collective Intelligence – pooling of ideas. Collaboration. class newspaper/magazine/blog. Areas/roles of expertise. Peer editing = “panels.” Voicethread.com e-pals.com 8. Judgment – looking at accuracy of info. Find reliable/unreliable/both? (Wikipedia) And write why. Scavenger hunt (author, references, academic background?). Ask the questions (see: Jenkins). 9. Transmedia Navigation – multi-modality. Translating Shakespeare into various mediums. Comic Life stories. Different countries’ views. Al-Jazeera. 10. Networking – audience vs producer. Class newspaper w/ feedback from others. Having meaning and audience behind work. Character facebook pages/threads. Art gallery walk (post-it comments). 11. Negotiation – give students random cultures of the high school (jocks, cheerleaders, nerds, etc). live as those cultures, work with individuals from other groups on school issue (prom). Confessional video at end. How would you break down stereotype?