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Digital CurriculumEnglish Language Arts
Dan Flickinger, Jane Jacobson, and Garth Kimbrell
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Dan Flickinger, Senior Researcher
An internationally recognized computational linguist, Dan is with the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University.
Jane Jacobson, Curriculum Development Specialist
A highly-qualified Language Arts and Social Science teacher, Jane is the lead ELA developer at Redbird Advanced Learning.
Garth Kimbrell, Instructional DesignerA recent teacher in the Stanford Summer Institutes and English Department, Garth is an instructional designer at Redbird Advanced Learning.
Presenters
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Agenda
• Opportunities in Digital Learning
• Overview of Language Arts & Writing
• Ongoing Development for ELA Curriculum
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OPPORTUNITIES IN DIGITAL LEARNING
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The Changing Landscape of English Language Arts
Emphasis on Standards and Online Testing
Student Access to Digital Devices
Evolving Classroom Environments
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● Comprehensive enrichment for the classroom
● Immediate evaluation of writing and answer choices
● Responsive, individuated presentation of material
● Recorded data of overall progress
What Can Innovative Digital Curriculum Offer?
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● Range of learning strategies
● Personal goals and self-regulation
● Recursive practice and skill-building
● Choices of tasks and reports on progress
Motivation for Students
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● Allows for focused, self-paced student work
● Drives further instruction based on student data
● Provides real-time assessment for each student
● Gives practice in an online testing environment
● Frees classroom time for group projects
Benefits for Teachers
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Mapping to the Progressive Skills of CCS
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• Increasing complexity across the grades• Building practice in foundational concepts• Underlying grammatical structure
Scope and Sequence
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OVERVIEW OF LA&W
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Course Structure: G2-G7
● Parts of Speech
● Sentence Structure
● Paragraphs
● Sentence Composition
● Reading
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Instruction and Assessment
Instruction● Multimedia lectures with associated exercise sets● Automatic evaluation & feedback
Assessment● Multiple choice, matching, sorting● Fill-in-the-blank, cloze● Single-sentence composition and revision● Paragraph composition
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Efficacy of the method
Shelby County School District two-year study of 5000 students.
Consistent gains in Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) scores.
Case Study: Shelby County School District
Number of students in this range
Change in TCAP score
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Single-Sentence Composition
● Question-answering; visual images; editing
● Vocabulary is exercise-specific
● Composition is by clicking on word buttons
● Evaluation of answer is automated, using linguistically rich grammar augmented with mal-rules coded for frequent error types
● Feedback is specific to the error and to the student's answer
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An Example Exercise
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Examples of Feedback
Exercise: Where are Ricky's toys?
Student: Ricky's toys are in closet.
System: You are missing an article before the word “closet”.
Student: In the closet.System: Your answer is not a complete sentence.
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Evaluation of composition
Exercise: Abigail didn't want to go hiking with her parents because she felt too tired and wanted to rest instead.
Why didn't Abigail want to go hiking?
Student:She was tired.
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Example Paragraph Composition G4
Exercise: Imagine that you went to the beach with your family yesterday. Write a descriptive paragraph about your experience.
Student:I went to beach with my family yesterday.I went to the beach with my family yesterday.At the beach we made sandcastles.We went swimming in the ocean.We read books at the beach.I had a fun time at the beach.
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Example Paragraph Composition G3
Exercise: Write an opinion paragraph about how you feel about reading.
Student:Dinosaurs dinosaurs dinosaurs.Pictures pictures pictures books bus.Books books books.
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Example Paragraph Composition G6
Exercise: Should junk food be sold in schools? Write a persuasive paragraph about this issue.
Student:Junk food is great for your health and it is so good that I eat it every day. Junk food is also a good way to get the fat and sugar that you need. Snacks of just sugar should be eaten every day. Unhealthy food is not nutritious but it is more sweet and tasty. I like to eat just fat.
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Development Initiatives at Stanford CSLI
● Enhanced evaluation of meaning for one-sentence
compositions in context
● Expansion of editing exercises to provide practice in correcting existing errors
● Automatic evaluation of student-composed paragraphs for structure, coherence, style
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ONGOING DEVELOPMENT
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Most ELA products on the market are tied to traditional ways of teaching English:
● Older curricula into digital form
● Grammar rules rather than practical usage
● Exam-style questions for reading comprehension
● No emphasis on self-directed strategies
Review of ELA Online Products
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Self-Assessment
Let it work;For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hardBut I will delve one yard below their mines,And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,When in one line two crafts directly meet.This man shall set me packing:I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.
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Choose your strategy
petard noun pe·tard \pə-ˈtär(d)\
1: a case containing an explosive to break down a door or gate or breach a wall
2: a firework that explodes with a loud report
Hoist, probably the past participle of the old verb to hoise, or perhaps an instance of the omission of the participial termination; petard, a war engine filled with explosive materials.
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Building a model
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Composition
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Self-Assessment in Persuasive Writing
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Digital Evaluation of Writing
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Reflection and Revision
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● Writing skills can be strengthened through automation
● Classroom and online instruction can be complementary
● New content & methods may lead to better writing style
● Adaptive learning enables progress toward standards
Conclusions