Co-creation in health

 What a great idea!

A simple concept. Enhance literacy education by starting with an established engagement. Kids already like children's movies. So, why not turn OFF the sound track and turn on subtitles? 

Just a little Vygotsy nudge within an established zone of proximal development where overcoming even the slightest forces of resistance is essentially a mute point since they already know that they enjoy seeing children's movies they haven't seen before.

It is sort of a variation of an established option in many digital children's books where pre-literate children can opt to turn on an audio reading feature that highlights the digital text word by word as the child listens to the reading while his or her eyes are directed towards the words being spoken.

It's finding that bridge between an established engagement and activities that build off of that existing engagement. It's more than "just a connection." Sure, Romeo and Juliet has much to say about gang-mentality and teen romance. But, high school students come with as many attitudes regarding gang-mentality and teen romance as .... well, too many to make assumptions that the connection itself is a reliable bridge. For many students, gangs are security in a world far more insecure than the worlds of their teachers or a far more supportive "famila" than the biological family that they have actual biological connections to while others in the same classroom may have family beliefs embracing tolerance and respect for people of different spiritual and cultural traditions while others have family beliefs much less tolerant or, let's face it, often quite intolerant of people's beliefs and cultural traditions. 

A simple example of the point I'm trying to make is to imagine what the student engagement might be in a very diverse classroom if Shakespeare had written "Romeo and Julius." 

Of course, I realize I've shifted the attention to older students, but the point might be, the variables of every single student are a unique combination of influences so it is rarely a safe bet to assume that we're providing a "precision-zone-of-proximal-development-targeted" learning experience with pancea-like effectiveness by assuming a connection will engage.

"Hey! You're a teenager. Romeo was a teenager. You're going to like this story." An inviting bridge? Maybe. Maybe not.

There is a difference between "finding connections" between our students and the learning experiences we design or employ and designing learning experiences with significant and broad pre-existing elements of perceived enjoyment and relevance. 

My guess is that popular children's movies are created with significant attention to every single element of storytelling that the industry has found  profitable at the box office in as many different families, neighborhoods and cultural settings as possible. And, thereby, perhaps that might make them a more dependable and inviting bridge from the known to the nearby unknown.

 ~ http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com ~

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