Transmedia Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom: Multiple perspectives on differentiation and cooperative learning
Speaker: Mariana Ferrarelli
In the light of recent technological developments teaching increasingly becomes a complex and challenging pursuit. In an accelerated world where fake news and artificial intelligence permeate every social network, Transmedia Storytelling in Education has proved to open engaging doors towards critical thinking, intercultural awareness, and collective creativity. These skills are crucial for students as they converge with another key element in today's datafied and platformized society: digital media literacy.
During the session the speaker will invite participants to explore the relevance of participatory approaches in the foreign language classroom and explore how and why educators and students should become active producers of knowledge. The aim of the workshop is to experience transmedia strategies as possible bridges to connect the inside and the outside of the classroom while engaging in active cooperative learning via the exploration of a specific transmedia project in education: The Coded Man.
Mariana Ferrarelli holds an MA in Scientific Research Methodology. She works as a lecturer for undergraduate and graduate programs, and as a techno-pedagogical consultant in various institutions where she designs and supports digital projects. She is the coordinator of the Observatory of Innovation in Higher Education (Isalud University) and a member of the Argentine Alfamed Network. Her research focuses on technology integration in education, teacher training, and transmedia storytelling in education. She is the author of various academic publications, including the recently published book Teaching at University from Restless Perspectives as a compiler, and the article Augmented Literacies: Producing, Expressing, and Collaborating in Digital Culture on critical literacies.
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