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Spinning Tales with Twinery

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Grand Hyatt - Texas Ballroom E

Interactive Session

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Session description

Educators will explore the Twinery application to create interactive stories that reinforce Computational Thinking Skills. Discover how these skills can be seamlessly integrated into subjects like Social Studies and ELA, enhancing student engagement and learning through innovative storytelling techniques.

Outline

1. What is a story? Why are stories important? How do we use stories in content? (10 Minutes)
- “Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TED Talk)
- Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind
- How Does Fiction Reading Influence Empathy? An Experimental Investigation on the Role of Emotional Transportation
- One More Really Big Reason to Read Stories to Children
- Changing Race Boundary Perception By Reading Narrative Fiction
- How Stories Change the Brain
- CS for Social Studies (CodeVA)

2. Computational Thinking - What is it? Why is it important? How can we be intentional with it? (10 Minutes)

3. Twinery - How To Use the Tool (20 minutes)
- Twine Story Patterns
--Cause & Effect
--Cyclical
--Historical Fiction
--Linear
-Twine Trail Guides
-YouTube Curriculum Channel and Playlists
-Directions for publishing and importing a Twine program
- Twine Formatting Tip Sheet

4. Creative Idea Sharing (10 minutes)

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Supporting research

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/377.abstract?sid=f192d0cc-1443-4bf1-a043-61410da39519

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0055341

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201410/one-more-really-big-reason-read-stories-children

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01973533.2013.856791

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_stories_change_brain

https://curriculum.codevirginia.org/library/browse/cs-for-social-studies

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Presenters

Nicole Bond

Supervisor of Educational Technology

Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12

Jigar Patel

Director of Innovation & Special Proj

Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11

Session specifications

Topic:

Computer Science and Computational Thinking

TLP:

Grade level:

6-12

Audience:

Librarian, Teacher, Technology Coach/Trainer

Attendee devices:

Devices required

Attendee device specification:

Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC

Participant accounts, software and other materials:

https://twinery.org/

Subject area:

Computer Science, Language Arts

ISTE Standards:

For Students:
Computational Thinker

Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
Understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.