An Approach to Motivating learners to Read in Euro..
An Approach to Motivating learners to Read in European schools
Start date: Dec 1, 2013,
Anna, a 11 year old primary school student from Poland, used to read rarely in her own time and would be embarrassed if their friends saw her reading. Imagine, this year Anna’s Polish teacher and her class participate in AMORES project. Now Anna reads a lot at home and participates in collaborative work with her peers on creating e-artefacts inspired by literature. Yesterday her group finished a cartoon on Jánošík, the "Polish Robin Hood", and published it online. Tomorrow during Polish class they will discuss the cartoon with their peers from the United Kingdom via videoconference. Anna is looking forward to it.More than a fifth of children and young people (22%) rarely or never read in their own time and nearly a fifth (17%) would be embarrassed if their friends saw them reading. Many school students lack knowledge of national and European literature. Teachers find it hard to interest children in reading literature, but agree that the use of ICT could help raise the level of students’ interest. However, in order to implement ICT in literacy teaching teachers not only need expertise in using ICT, but also innovative methodology that would exploit the use of ICT for reading and learning literature. AMORES will change this situation and improve literature teaching and learning across Europe by increasing students engagement with literature through an innovative methodology based on interactivity and collaboration. The new methodology will put the student voice at the heart of this work, empowering them to express their opinions and influence their educational experiences through creating e-artefacts inspired by national literatures. By creating e-artefacts, the AMORES project will also improve students’ and teachers’ digital literacy and empower teachers by increasing their pedagogical competences in new technologies. To ensure exploitation and sustainability of the new methodology, it will be developed through participative approaches with teachers.
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