STEAM Writing/Qualitative Research Grades 6+: Students Interview Others & Create Books |
Explore and create : Playground
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Audience: | Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Professional developers, Technology coordinators/facilitators |
Skill level: | Beginner |
Attendee devices: | Devices useful |
Attendee device specification: | Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows |
Participant accounts, software and other materials: | Not necessary |
Topic: | Communication & collaboration |
Grade level: | 6-12 |
Subject area: | Language arts, STEM/STEAM |
ISTE Standards: | For Students: Empowered Learner
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Teachers have very limited time & resources. It's difficult to engage & motivate students in learning, especially online or blended. Difficult to personalize & differentiate lessons for agency, diversity & inclusion. Required to develop student's EQ, wellbeing and engage families & communities.
Similar to online games, the FamilyBookform dashboard contains all the instructions & explanations to scaffold & document Grade 6+ students in STEAM pedagogy & Universal Design Learning frameworks to personalize & differentiate 'how, what & why' students write.
STEAM writing / qualitative research projects enrich lessons, students have a personal connection to the process & content, ensuring their brains generate oxytocin, the chemical to develop love, trust, empathy & feeling secure.
Students share their content (audio files, text & images) in class for authentic story-sharing, discussions, collaborative editing & celebrations.
Books can be graded, included in portfolios & College applications, gifted & sold to families & community. Students develop self-worth and a sense of achievement in being a published author.
Enhance existing writing assignments, instead of a blank page for writing, students follow template prompts to speak into the page, interview others (any language, in-person & online) & collaborate, to create automatically formatted published books of value. Projects develop 21st century skills & SEL, funded by communities.
Google for Education Partner, integrated into the Classroom platform, available on Chromebooks & any device connected to WiFi. Comply with all student privacy & data storage requirements. Case studies, lesson plans, explainer videos are on the website: https://familybookform.com/schools/
Teachers & students have been awarded, new research has been published & case studies presented globally. TV & mainstream media generated in many countries: https://youtu.be/fvMFyuN0yFM
Evidence: https://familybookform.com/blog/
I present the FamilyBookform teacher training globally. Usually 30-60 minutes.
5-10 Introduction slides,
10-20 case study example from teachers globally &
10-20 a demo of the dashboard & how teachers & students use the templates, speech-to-text in any language, do interviews, invite contributors, publish online & download audio & PDF to print.
Sometimes I invite participants to contribute content to a 'Collaborative Class book' to demo how a teacher collates student's content into a class book and they can access the digital book online for 1 year or get the PDF, eg: https://familybookform.com/book/c8ab60ff-200f-4e67-b35d-895f1e4f8426/preview/
Teachers sign up free & can create 1 free demo book with their class.
This technology is being used in over 40 countries. Teachers have generated many case studies & new research on improved student academics & wellbeing.
Teachers & students awarded for projects: https://familybookform.com/blog/posts/minister-of-education-awards-bookform-literacy-project
Projects have also generated nation TV & newspaper coverage: https://youtu.be/fvMFyuN0yFM
Improved Boys' literacy & family engagement:
https://familybookform.com/blog/posts/improved-boys-literacy-wellbeing-research
Primary-sourced historical records of value:
https://familybookform.com/blog/posts/blakehurst-high-covid-me-book
Student Journals for academic development & reflection:
https://familybookform.com/blog/posts/student-journals
STEAM writing:
https://familybookform.com/school-case-study-pl/
https://familybookform.com/blog/posts/yr-5-6-steam-project
Carey Furze, former English Teacher, published author & FamilyBookform Founder. I developed this 'inquiry' writing/book-creating technology as a resource for teachers to easily personalize & differentiate their lessons & for students to have 'communication for connection' with their families & communities. Using technology-as-a-tool to achieve transformational learning and documenting it all for celebration & proof-of-learning. Communication skills are the single biggest contributing factor to determine a person's health, wealth & success, so practicing communication will ensure young people have the best chance of happiness, whatever their future.