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This cooperative learning strategy has been around for decades, but how well do you really know it?
Say "Jigsaw" in some teaching circles and no one will bat an eyelash. It's one of those techniques that has been with us so long, it is no longer seen as new. When considering methods to share in my collection of instructional strategies, I ignored it for a long time because I assumed most people already knew how to use it. Still, I figured it was worth including at some point.

When I finally sat down to review the steps of Jigsaw, I came across a few surprises.

Although Jigsaw is typically presented as just one in a number of cooperative learning strategies, its origin story has little to do with academics. The strategy was developed by social psychologist Elliot Aronson in 1971 in response to the racial turmoil caused by recent school desegregation in Austin, Texas. "Long-standing suspicion, fear, and distrust between groups produced an atmosphere of turmoil and hostility," Aronson recalls on his website, The Jigsaw Classroom. "Fist-fights erupted in corridors and schoolyards across the city. The school superintendent called me in to see if we could do anything to help students get along with one another."

Rather than take a crisis management approach to the situation, which they believed would only put a band-aid on the problem, Aronson and his colleagues wanted a solution that was more organic, something built into the structure of students' everyday learning. What they came up with was Jigsaw, an instructional approach that required students to learn from each other, rather than from the teacher. Because students in a Jigsaw classroom could not succeed without one another, they had to learn to get along. "Learning from each other gradually diminishes the need to try to out-perform each other because one student's learning enhances the performance of the other students instead of inhibiting it, as is usually the case in most competitive, teacher-oriented classrooms."

For a more thorough understanding of the strategy and its history, read the Jigsaw Classroom's Jigsaw Basics white paper.

Although cooperative learning in general has been proven to have a strong positive impact on learning (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001), researchers have found that Jigsaw in particular improves students' social-emotional learning. In studies comparing Jigsaw with traditional direct instruction, students taught with the Jigsaw method demonstrated increased feelings of autonomy, competence, and intrinsic motivation (Hänze & Berger, 2007). Another study comparing Jigsaw with cooperative learning that didn't include interdependence (a hallmark of Jigsaw) found that the Jigsaw students demonstrated improved attitudes toward their peers and reduced indicators of racial prejudice (Walker & Crogan, 1998).

Many teachers are looking for ways to help students become more independent learners who also function well in groups. If done correctly, Jigsaw can fulfill all of those needs without ever losing academic rigor.

As a teacher, I never received any formal training in this strategy, and when I tried it, I found it didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped. After studying the steps again, I realized I was organizing my groups the wrong way. Plus, I never bothered to give the quiz at the end.

Anyway, here's a video overview of the steps. If you're new to the strategy, this will show you how to do it. If, like me, you've tried it without success, this may help you fine-tune:

Want these steps written down? Click here to download a free copy (will open in a new window).

I had no clue about this! Since the original Jigsaw strategy was developed, other educators have improved on it with their own variations (Coffey, n.d):

Jigsaw II has all students read all of the material, but then specialize in one area for their expert groups. Then, when quiz time comes, students' individual scores are averaged within each group to arrive at a group score, which is then compared with other groups. This encourages groups to work harder to ensure that all members learn.

Jigsaw III builds in a group review before the final quiz.

Jigsaw IV adds a few extra components to Jigsaw III: The teacher starts by introducing the material, quizzes are given to the expert groups, and a re-teaching period is built in to address material that wasn't taught well in cooperative groups.

I should mention that clear information on these three variations was very challenging to find; with that in mind, I believe there's a need for a well-written set of instructions to help teachers give each variation a try.

So how do you like them apples? Kind of makes you want to get Jiggy with it, no? (Sorry, I couldn't help it. It was sitting right there.) If you have experience with Jigsaw and have insights or tips to add, please comment below. If you have questions about implementation, let's hear those, too.

Jiggy. ♥

References:

Coffey, H. (n.d.). Jigsaw (Educator's guides: North Carolina digital history). Retrieved from http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-eg/4584#noteref5

Hänze, M., & Berger, R. (2007). Cooperative learning, motivational effects, and student characteristics: An experimental study comparing cooperative learning and direct instruction in 12th grade physics classes. Learning and Instruction, 17(1), 29-41. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475206001174

Marzano, R. J., Pickering, D., & Pollock, J. E. (2001). Classroom instruction that works: Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Silver, H. F., Strong, R. W., & Perini, M. J. (2007). The strategic teacher: Selecting the right research-based strategy for every lesson. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Walker, I. (1998). Academic performance, prejudice, and the jigsaw classroom: New pieces to the puzzle. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 8(6), 381-393. Retrieved from http://uwf.edu/svodanov/AS/Jigsaw.pdf

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These cards are can be used with any type of book students are reading or subjects that they are studying, and make for an excellent prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories and need to consider characters, setting, and plot. Specific prompts guide student through the various types of cards, expanding students' thinking from the basic information and description of the topic to making personal connections to the subject.

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Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

RF: Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-5)

5: 5th Grade

4a: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to
support comprehension.

a. Read on-level text with purpose and
understanding.

b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with
accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on
successive readings.

c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary.

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Having the "same" text written for different levels of English comprehension can be a life-saver for a multi-level class of English Language Learners or for a teacher with a mainstream class that includes some students that are facing other challenges. They can be an important tool for differentiation.

But where do you get these different versions other than creating them yourself?

Here are a few sources, and I hope that readers will suggest more:

Newsela provides several "levels" of the same newspaper articles, along with accompanying online quizzes, that students can read and take. For a small fee, Teachers can create a virtual classroom, assign articles and monitor student progress. However, students can read the articles for free without having to pay anything.

News In Levels offers similar resources, but without the ability to track student progress online. The site is free.

For The Teachers has similar leveled articles available for download. It, too, is free.
Breaking News English
Text Compactor lets you paste text into it and then automatically shares different versions with fewer words. It seemed to work pretty well when I tried it.

Rewordify is like a super-sophisticated Text Compactor on steroids. You can read my previous post about it: "Rewordify" Is One Of The Most Unique Sites Out There For English Language Learners & Others.

Reader Laurie suggests Embedded Reading, which has these kinds of similar "leveled" texts in English, as well as in other languages.

I learned about CommonLit from the amazing educator Suzie Boss at her recent Edutopia post. It's a neat site that doesn't actually provide the "same" text written for different "levels." What it does do, however, is provide leveled readings - with prompts - on the same theme. It's pretty neat. (They've just added many new features - see "CommonLit" Now Lets Teachers Create Free Virtual Classrooms)

Books That Grow has a library of texts that have each been edited to be made accessible to different reading levels. And it has some other unique features - teachers can create virtual classrooms to assign and/or monitor what students what are reading and students can click on words that are new to them to see definitions and hear how they are pronounced. They are also planning on adding comprehension questions. The texts can be read on any device.

Thanks to reader Vincy Murgillo for letting me know about the Smithsonian's Tween Tribune. It provides daily news stories, with the same one edited several times for different reading levels. The stories also have self-scoring quizzes and provide decent "critical thinking" questions that students can respond to in the comments. On top of that, teachers can create virtual classrooms to monitor it all, as well as moderating student comments. And it's all available for free!

You have to pay for it, but Birdbrain Science and History have similar resources (they've changed their name to RocketLit).

Newsela, which is on this list, has now begun to provide Spanish translations of some articles, including providing them at different reading levels. Here is their blog post announcing the feature, and here's a link to their Spanish-language text sets.
The British Council Has Excellent Leveled Reading Resources "TIME/Edge" Could Be Useful For Students Over The Summer
Kids Discover has several levels for social studies instruction - for a price that does not seem to be unreasonable.
"Simplish" Automatically Simplifies And/Or Summarizes Text "ReadWorks" Now Provides "Same" Texts At Different Level
Scholastic has a small number of audio-supported same text at different levels (they also have a few more here). In addition, their Storyworks program has many more, though it costs about $8 per student to use.

Thanks to Christina Cabal's blog (which is on the The Top Blogs and Resource Sites For Teachers Of English Language Learners list), I've learned about a new site called Learn With News. It provides articles about current events, which each one having three versions at different lexile levels. They also provide questions for each article. However, they are not interactive online, so you would need to either print them out or project them. The site also says they will soon be adding audio support for the text.
"Freckle" Provides Hundreds Of Articles In "5 or more different reading levels" "News-O-Matic" Is Definitely A Site I Would Consider Using With Students Right Now "TIME FOR KIDS" NOW OFFERS MATERIALS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES, SAME ARTICLE IN DIFFERENT LEXILE LEVELS
Graded listening is a radio program from the British Council that is provided in three "lexile" levels.

Transforming the Resources You Have into Accessible Formats for All Students is an excellent post by Carmen Nguyen.

Brittanica Kids has all of its articles written in three different levels: Kids, Students, Scholars. There is a cost involved, but a lot of their resources are available for free. For example, I found this article on The Compromise of 1850 that I'll be using in my ELL U.S. History class. They also have a small collection of free "read aloud" books for new readers. I'm not sure what the restrictions are about what's free and what's for subscribers only.
The OER Project Offers The Same Social Studies Texts In Different Lexile Levels - For Free!
I think a lot of teachers will find this post from TESOL useful: Create Your Own Leveled Readers.

The Juice offers daily news articles at four different levels. You have to pay for it, though it's not astronomical.

This is a good list-I'd add that Scholastic Action (needs purchasing) is a hit with Middle & High #ELs newcomer to advanced. It includes different lexile versions. With engaging graphics, digital supplements, & access to past issues and it's easy to build high interest units.

- Holly Sawyer (@HollySawyerESL) October 31, 2021

VERY GOOD VIDEO ON "TEXT ENGINEERING" TO MAKE IT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS & EVERYBODY ELSE
What makes writing more readable? is a really interesting interactive from The Pudding. It illustrates - graphically - how to write in a more accessible way.

News2You provides weekly news articles in four different levels. It costs about $240 annually.
ChatGPT Will Make Different Lexile Level Versions Of The Same Text
Welma simplifies sentences and paragraphs through the use of AI.

HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE TEXTS WITH CHATGPT is from TechNotes.
" Eigo.ai " Is A New Free Site Using Artificial Intelligence To Support ELLs NEWSELA MAKING BIG CHANGES TO THEIR FREE PLAN
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HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE GREAT SITE "DAYS IN LEVELS"?
I'm adding this list to The Best Resources On Differentiating Instruction.

Also, see THE BEST STRATEGIES FOR "ENGINEERING" TEXT SO THAT IT'S MORE ACCESSIBLE TO ELLS.

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Common core State Standards

Math: Math

6: Grade 6

NS: The Number System

A: Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions

1:
Interpret and compute quotients of fractions, and solve word problems involving division of fractions by fractions, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem. For example, create a story context for (2/3) ÷ (3/4) and use a visual fraction model to show the quotient; use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9 because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3. (In general, (a/b) ÷ (c/d) = ad/bc.) How much chocolate will each person get if 3 people share 1/2 lb of chocolate equally? How many 3/4-cup servings are in 2/3 of a cup of yogurt? How wide is a rectangular strip of land with length 3/4 mi and area 1/2 square mi?.

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Have you ever wondered if your students are engaged in their learning? I have often wondered this and wondered how I could measure it. So, some colleagues and I have come up with what is called the "ENGAGEMENT WHEEL." It is a way to reflect on an hour of your day that you have taught and try to give it an ENGAGEMENT score. The higher the score the more engaged your class was. The engagement wheel measures what your students are doing.

The engagement wheel score is most accurate when looking at the same class repeatedly over a number of days. This will insure the score's validity.

I have an example for you. Tuesday during 4th period I received a score of 5. I filled in the categories that were true for that hour. I would take samples from a few days in a row to determine where I stand. Also, from this activity it will become obvious which pie slices you are not doing regularly.

Let me know what you think and how you have used this. I would really appreciate the feedback.

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Common core State Standards

ELA: English Language Arts

RL: Reading Standards for Literature 6-12

9-10: 9th & 10th Grades

1:
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text
says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

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1. How do the quotes and questionnaire help students prepare for a challenging text?

2. What evidence must students provide to support their questionnaire answers?

3. How does Ms. Fulco ensure students understand the 'big ideas' during the whole class discussion?

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Silent Tea Party: Pre-Reading for Challenging Texts

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Here is a pre-reading strategy to use to prepare students for reading challenging books. Silent Tea Party gets students to interact and start understanding the big idea of the book. Listen to Ms. Fulco as she explains how to use this pre-reading strategy in the classroom.

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Interactive Map and Timelines students can create

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Personal, Business, Education | myHistro

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We do believe that every person has much more than just a one side to express and recall. We have always wanted myHistro to be a place where people can complete their "actual self" by showing different sides of one's personality: from hobbies & travels to general interests and real friends.

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Browse Our Human Read Audiobooks Collection | Learning Ally

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Audiobooks from Learning Ally help students with dyslexia, blindness, or visual impairments read better. Our audio books include textbooks, literature, and all book genres.

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SoCal Maker Convention, Pomona, California. 10K likes. The SoCal MakerCon is an event inspired by an emerging Maker movement. Learn about ideas & innovations that are changing the world!...

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We've invited the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society to nominate scholars to discuss every clause of the Constitution, exploring areas of agreement and disagreement about the Constitution's text and history, how it's been interpreted over time, and what it means today. For each major clause and amendment, we've added nonpartisan educational resources from the National Constitution Center, including videos, podcasts, blog posts, and The Drafting Table, a tool that allows users to explore early drafts of the constitutional text.

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Interactive Constitution | The National Constitution Center

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In this new Private i History Detectives unit, Elementary students analyze primary sources to discover how Constitutional Amendments attempted to address slavery's wrongs, how the courts challenged unfair laws, and how individuals and groups fought for civil rights.

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Six Scaffolding Strategies--Edutopia Article

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What's the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, "Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday." Yikes! No safety net, no parachute-they're just left to their own devices.

Let's start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. When scaffolding reading, for example, you might preview the text and discuss key vocabulary, or chunk the text and then read and discuss as you go. With differentiation, you might give a child an entirely different piece of text to read, or shorten the text or alter it, or modify the writing assignment that follows.

Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids. For those students who are still struggling, you may need to differentiate by modifying an assignment or making accommodations like choosing a more accessible text or assigning an alternative project.

Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common, though. In order to meet students where they are and appropriately scaffold a lesson or differentiate instruction, you have to know the individual and collective zone of proximal development (ZPD) of your learners. Education researcher Eileen Raymond says, "The ZPD is the distance between what children can do by themselves and the next learning that they can be helped to achieve with competent assistance."

So let's get to some scaffolding strategies you may or may not have tried yet. Or perhaps you've not used them in some time and need a gentle reminder on how awesome and helpful they can be when it comes to student learning.

1. Show and Tell

How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? Modeling for students is a cornerstone of scaffolding, in my experience. Have you ever interrupted someone with "Just show me!" while they were in the middle of explaining how to do something? Every chance you have, show or demonstrate to students exactly what they are expected to do.

Try a fishbowl activity, where a small group in the center is circled by the rest of the class; the group in the middle, or fishbowl, engages in an activity, modeling how it's done for the larger group.

Always show students the outcome or product before they do it. If a teacher assigns a persuasive essay or inquiry-based science project, a model should be presented side-by-side with a criteria chart or rubric. You can guide students through each step of the process with the model of the finished product in hand.

Use think alouds, which will allow you to model your thought process as you read a text, solve a problem, or design a project. Remember that children's cognitive abilities are still in development, so opportunities for them to see developed, critical thinking are essential.

2. Tap Into Prior Knowledge

Ask students to share their own experiences, hunches, and ideas about the content or concept of study and have them relate and connect it to their own lives. Sometimes you may have to offer hints and suggestions, leading them to the connections a bit, but once they get there, they will grasp the content as their own.

Launching the learning in your classroom from the prior knowledge of your students and using this as a framework for future lessons is not only a scaffolding technique-many would agree it's just plain good teaching.

3. Give Time to Talk

All learners need time to process new ideas and information. They also need time to verbally make sense of and articulate their learning with the community of learners who are engaged in the same experience and journey. As we all know, structured discussions really work best with children regardless of their level of maturation.

If you aren't weaving in think-pair-share, turn-and-talk, triad teams, or some other structured talking time throughout the lesson, you should begin including this crucial strategy on a regular basis.

4. Pre-Teach Vocabulary

Sometimes referred to as front-loading vocabulary, this is a strategy that we teachers don't use enough. Many of us, myself included, are guilty of sending students all alone down the bumpy, muddy path known as Challenging Text-a road booby-trapped with difficult vocabulary. We send them ill-prepared and then are often shocked when they lose interest, create a ruckus, or fall asleep.

Pre-teaching vocabulary doesn't mean pulling a dozen words from the chapter and having kids look up definitions and write them out-we all know how that will go. Instead, introduce the words to kids in photos or in context with things they know and are interested in. Use analogies and metaphors, and invite students to create a symbol or drawing for each word. Give time for small-group and whole-class discussion of the words. Not until they've done all this should the dictionaries come out. And the dictionaries will be used only to compare with those definitions they've already discovered on their own.

With the dozen or so words front-loaded, students are ready, with you as their guide, to tackle that challenging text.

5. Use Visual Aids

Graphic organizers, pictures, and charts can all serve as scaffolding tools. Graphic organizers are very specific in that they help kids visually represent their ideas, organize information, and grasp concepts such as sequencing and cause and effect.

A graphic organizer shouldn't be The Product but rather a scaffolding tool that helps guide and shape students' thinking. Some students can dive right into discussing, or writing an essay, or synthesizing several different hypotheses, without using a graphic organizer of some sort, but many of our students benefit from using one with a difficult reading or challenging new information. Think of graphic organizers as training wheels-they're temporary and meant to be removed.

6. Pause, Ask Questions, Pause, Review

This is a wonderful way to check for understanding while students read a chunk of difficult text or learn a new concept or content. Here's how this strategy works: Share a new idea from discussion or the reading, then pause (providing think time), and then ask a strategic question, pausing again.

You need to design the questions ahead of time, making sure they're specific, guiding, and open-ended. (Even great questions fail if we don't give think time for responses, so hold out during that Uncomfortable Silence.) Keep kids engaged as active listeners by calling on someone to give the gist of what was just discussed, discovered, or questioned. If the class seems stuck on the questions, provide an opportunity for students to discuss in pairs.

With all the diverse learners in our classrooms, there is a strong need for teachers to learn and experiment with new scaffolding strategies. I often say to teachers I support that they have to slow down in order to go quickly. Scaffolding a lesson may, in fact, mean that it takes longer to teach, but the end product is of far greater quality and the experience much more rewarding for all involved.

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6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students

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What's the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? Saying to students, "Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday." Yikes! No safety net, no parachute-they're just left to their own devices. Let's start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things.

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UDL Guidelines Translations --Katie Novak

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It was, she remembered, the first standing ovation she ever received as a librarian.

Laura Fleming was working at an elementary school in River Edge, N.J., one of those tiny suburban school districts across the river from Manhattan. It was 2009, she'd been working in education for 12 years and she'd long been searching for books that would engage her students. But each fall, it seemed, they arrived less interested in the books she loved.

Fleming often felt like a stand-up comedian in a smoky nightclub. "You have that go-to joke that always gets the crowd going," she said with a laugh. But all of a sudden, her material wasn't working. The crowd was silent. The books fell flat.

So she began searching for something different. She found a series of young adult novels called Skeleton Creek that embedded Internet URLs into the plot - the links took readers to a series of jittery, handheld Blair Witch style videos, seemingly shot by the protagonists. The videos moved the story along nicely, but mostly they scared the bejeezus out of young readers.

Then Fleming found Inanimate Alice.

Created by British novelist Kate Pullinger and British-Canadian multimedia artist Chris Joseph, Alice blinks, buzzes, hums, sings, jitterbugs, plays games, and, on occasion, rains and snows. Using her laptop, Fleming projected the first Alice story onto a library whiteboard ... and her fifth graders went nuts. The story was immersive like little else, the first piece of fiction that helped them see life through a character's eyes. A few students approached her afterwards to thank her, tears glistening in their eyes.

Welcome to the Brave New World of reading, the clickable, interactive future of books. Just as digital technology is transforming our work, our social lives and our family ties, it's transforming the slow, solitary act of reading. Think beyond paper vs. pixels - this cuts to the very core of what it means to read a book.

What is a book anyway? If players of the brooding, atmospheric computer game Dear Esther can take in a full-blown ghost story simply by wandering over the landscape of a deserted island in Scotland's Hebrides, finding fragments of letters, music and clues as they walk, shouldn't we call that a book?
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Critics can't seem to agree on a name for this new genre: multimedia online novels, e-books, touchable TV, paratext or technotext. Someone has even suggested "Franken-novel." Most often, though, "transmedia" has stuck. Wired magazine co-founder Kevin Kelly has called them "books we watch or television we read."

Fleming doesn't much care what anybody else calls Alice. "It's a book," she said. Her students read it. They like it. The lines between different media "are so blurred for them" that there's nothing to discuss. Alice's world, she said, "is the world the kids are growing up in."

"Children today deserve adults who are willing to take a close look at this technology, if for no other reason than because it has so much power."

Warren Buckleitner, editor of Children's Technology Review

With a few reservations, Warren Buckleitner might agree. The founder and editor of Children's Technology Review, he pointed out that this is by no means the first time technology has changed the medium. At the turn of the 20 th century, Beatrix Potter was "just another children's author," until she persuaded her publisher to invest in expensive four-color printing, and her books took off. "By using the latest technologies, Beatrix Potter became a rock star," he said.

Buckleitner has spent his career test-driving children's media and has seen it all - the good and the bad. He remains hopeful that e-books, or whatever we call them, can be done right.

"Quality illustration and quality narrative can live in any form, whether it's print or on a screen," he said, and if it's done well, "you can get some real magic."

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But magic isn't easy. It took children's author and illustrator Eric Carle six tries and three studios to get the iPad version of his Very Hungry Caterpillar right. My Very Hungry Caterpillar, which debuted last November, "is gorgeous stuff, but it engages children in a way that pulls them in rather than tries to push them," Buckleitner said. The app is wordless and the illustrations invite tiny touchscreen interactions that playfully move the story along.

"At the end of the day, children's books and the whole definition of what is an e-book, it's never been more interesting," he said. "There are more ways for an author to tell stories currently than at any other time."

But whether publishers are using digital tools to tell stories more effectively is open for debate, said Heather Schugar, a researcher at West Chester University. She and her husband, Jordan Schugar, also of West Chester, have studied e-books and found that "interactive" doesn't necessarily mean better. "Most of the features we're seeing are more on the distracting end," she said. "You're making things wiggle and talk, but they're not really supporting the text itself." The Schugars' research has found that students tend to spend more time reading enhanced books, but that they often comprehend less.

A few publishers are starting to get it right, they said. The duo recommend an app of the Judy Sierra/Marc Brown book Wild About Books, in which readers touch the word "stampede," for instance, and trigger a stampede of animals across the page.

"For a child who is reading that book, 'stampede' may or may not be in their vocabulary," Heather Schugar said. "So it visually shows them - it helps them make that inference." Yet in the same book, touching an animal produces, for no good reason, its sound. "That's distracting," she said.

"Book publishers have told us, 'We're putting all of these things in because the more interactive it is, that's what the parents want to buy, that's what's selling,'" she said. "O.K., we get that. Let's think about the quality of what we're putting in. Instead of just having it make a noise, let's have it support what your text does."
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Most publishers have actually taken a conservative approach to enhanced versions of their books. Children's author William Joyce recalled that his publisher warned him he was "going over to the dark side" when he began experimenting with interactivity. He and Moonbot Studios partner Brandon Oldenburg, based in Shreveport, La., had already begun shooting a short film based on his illustrated book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, and were using iPhone cameras to set up shots. Then the iPad appeared. They realized that its bigger screen was "exactly what we need," Oldenburg recalled. They decided to create an app that explored the "cool things the tablet could do" that the book couldn't, Joyce said.

"We didn't want to just regurgitate the same experience that you had with the film in a book form or a digital book form," Oldenburg said.

The film won an Academy Award, the book was a New York Times best-seller and the app has been downloaded more than 200,000 times. Moonbot has since created interactive versions of several Joyce titles, including an "augmented reality" app called Imag-n-o-tron that requires users to have the paper book handy. "That was sort of our response to the fear, love and hatred of what we were doing with digital picture books," Oldenburg said. In 2012, Imag-n-o-tron led School Library Journal's list of "Top 10 Apps."

Joyce said the best reason to turn a book into an app is to create "a compelling experience" that the book can't provide. "This is going to happen, so what we have to do is figure out how it can be cool and how it can be an extension of the idea of a book."

Buckleitner, the Children's Technology Review editor, agrees. "Children today deserve adults who are willing to take a close look at this technology," he said, "if for no other reason than because it has so much power."

During a telephone interview, I asked Joyce and Oldenburg about their ground rules for creating compelling experiences. Joyce said he was open to suggestions, which he would jot on a sheet of paper. He later snapped a photo of the paper and e-mailed it to me - during our 23-minute chat, he and Oldenburg came up with six rules, including: "Don't do anything crummy."

Greg Toppo is USA Today's national education and demographics writer. A former teacher, he is the author of the new book The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Books that snap, crackle, buzz and sing - The Hechinger Report

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It was, she remembered, the first standing ovation she ever received as a librarian. Laura Fleming was working at an elementary school in River Edge, N.J., one of those tiny suburban school districts across the river from Manhattan. It was 2009, she'd been working in education for 12 years and she'd long been searching for ...

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"I sat through two 45-minute lectures in high school social studies and not only was I super focused because I was doodling, I could also basically give the lecture afterwards," said Paul, who is director of learning design at Woodward Academy. "And if I look at the doodle again today for three to four minutes, I can basically remember it all again."

These experiences convinced Paul and Gough that something powerful happens when auditory learning is transposed into images. It didn't take much to excite students about the idea.

"It really is amazing how much, with just a tiny bit of introduction, most kids will take to it," Paul said.

Teachers were more skeptical at first, but the approach and its results slowly won many of them over. A fifth-grade science teacher at Trinity was convinced when a student left his understanding of how magnets work on her desk -- a sheet of paper covered in drawings.

"What they can produce is beautiful and it makes them better listeners," Gough said.

The practice also makes student learning visible and provides a valuable formative assessment tool. If a student sketches an interesting side note in the lesson, but misses the big themes, that will show up in her drawing. And when students share their drawings with one another, they have the chance to fill in the gaps in their knowledge, and drawings, while discussing the key ideas. Going over the drawings also solidifies the information for students.

"We're using the collective brain to deepen all of our learning," Paul said.
BASED IN NEUROSCIENCE
While doodling has often been seen as frivolous at best and distracting at worst, the idea of sketchnoting has grounding in neuroscience research about how to improve memory. When ideas and related concepts can be encapsulated in an image, the brain remembers the information associated with that image. William Klemm, a professor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University, says the process is akin to a zip file.

"This is a way to get your working memory to carry more," Klemm said at a Learning and the Brain conference in San Francisco.

Klemm advocates thinking in images and stringing them together into what he calls "story chains," to vastly improve how much students can remember. Sketching notes makes these story chains visible and tangible.

"Teachers were amazed at the depth and diversity of what the kids produce, even the first time we tried this," Paul said.

Gough and Paul were originally inspired by Sunni Brown's TED Talk, in which she tries to convince listeners that drawing plays a central role in learning. Later the two educators took Brown's webinar, which helped give them useful tricks and, most importantly, the license to mess up, share their failures and keep practicing.

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And, while students take copious notes, they may not be retaining much of what they write down. When a student doodles, on the other hand, he is synthesizing the information, making choices about what's important and encoding the memory in a new way.

"If we draw or sketch, that's activating the visual pathway, so we're using our audio senses to take in information. But our output is visual, so there isn't that traffic jam," Gough said.

It can be hard to sketchnote in real time and keep up with the flow of a lectures. But even that isn't all bad. "Even the things you cut get attached to the things you did choose because you can take yourself back to that choice," Paul said. The two educators have also experimented with using little sketches as ways to take notes in the margins of books.
DOODLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
It may seem like doodling will become a thing of the past as schools increasingly move towards digital textbooks and notetaking. But Gough and Paul say there are always ways to adapt the practice and new affordances that technology can offer. Since many public school students can't write in their paper textbooks anyway, perhaps they can sketch when they take notes virtually. Sketching with a stylus on a tablet, for example, could also offer some interesting new avenues for color and design that pen and paper don't.

More than anything, Paul and Gough want to offer multiple entry points for students to access learning. While doodling works for some kids, it might not for others and that's fine. What's most important is that teachers allow for variation in learning styles, even when it is unfamiliar to them.

"If we are going to model lifelong learning for and with children and our colleagues, sometimes we have to be uncomfortable and try it," Gough said.

Sketchnoting has become an important learning tool for these two educators, but they say it was just as important to practice public risk-taking.

Both women tweeted out their sketches from the very beginning -- a scary thing to do when the first pictures were mostly stick figures running off the page, but one that immediately helped generate support from other doodlers. Now Paul and Gough regularly share both their own drawings and their students' work and growth.

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Making Learning Visible: Doodling Helps Memories Stick

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"I sat through two 45-minute lectures in high school social studies and not only was I super focused because I was doodling, I could also basically give the lecture afterwards," said Paul, who is director of learning design at Woodward Academy.

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Most Likely To Succeed is a thought-provoking documentary feature film that reveals the growing shortcomings of conventional education methods in today's innovative world. The film explores compelling new approaches that aim to revolutionize education as we know it, inspiring school communities to reimagine what students and teachers are capable of doing. To date, MLTS has screened for thousands of audiences around the world, igniting conversations and empowering change along the way. Share the film with your community to activate change now.

From Director Greg Whiteley (Last Chance U, Mitt,) and Executive Producer Ted Dintersmith (author, Most Likely to Succeed).

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Try creating a doodle on the Online Doodle Pad. You can select from various brush styles and colors. When you're all done with your masterpiece, click "save" to download it as a picture.

Doodle Pad Keyboard Shortcuts

Decrease brush size - Press the d key on your keyboard

Increase brush size - Press the f key on your keyboard

Free Online Drawing Board

Below is a description of each button in the drawing board menu above. Click/or tap to make a change to the colors and brush styles to achieve the artboard you are looking for.

A - Click the color square next to the pencil

B - Choose the color of the paintbrush

C - Choose a brush style

D - Change the canvas background color

D - Erase your current drawing

How do I save my drawing on my computer or phone?

Take a screenshot of your drawing to save it to your computer. Instructions for Windows and iPhone

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

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