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McClay, Jill Kedersha; Mackey, Margaret; Carbonaro, Mike; Szafron, Duane; Schaeffer, Jonathan – E-Learning, 2007
This article reports on a study of 23 tenth-grade students who created fiction in digital game and written formats. The researchers observed them at work, analysed their stories in both formats, and interviewed selected students to learn what affordances and constraints they demonstrate and/or articulate in such authoring. The students used…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Metacognition, Computer Uses in Education, Fiction
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Day, Karen S.; Richardson, Pat – Canadian Social Studies, 1993
Describes a project in which grade-four students read a historical novel and wrote essays as historical characters. College-level education students also read the novel and replied to the elementary students. Concludes that the project helped students achieve preestablished instructional goals. (CFR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Area Reading, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives