Before the pandemic, transliteracy was becoming an increasingly valuable skill for students (and teachers) to have. Since the start of distance and hybrid learning in March 2019, transliteracy instantly became not only important, but an absolutely crucial skill for students and teachers to demonstrate in order for virtual learning to function effectively. In some ways, teaching virtually makes incorporating transliteracy into my teaching easier. For example, being able to share screen and walk my students through a given lesson or assignment both visually and with my words, in theory should make understanding the content more feasible for students, as opposed to only talking at them. Hybrid learning has challenged me to include a variety of lesson designs in which students must demonstrate transliteracy skills. My students have had to answer google forms, complete edpuzzle video assignments, make copies of slides and edit them, fill out documents and attach them before submitting to Google classroom, participate in Zoom visually, verbally and in the chat, participate in live peardecks, film themselves inventing a game to be played at home and upload it to Flipgrid, etc. And this is all for PE!!! I can only imagine how innovative some classroom teachers must be in incorporating transliteracy into their curriculum in the virtual classroom.
Sketchnoting includes visual aspects of imagery in combination with reading/writing of words and/or short phrases. Visual learners, English learners and special needs students can benefit from the ease of interpreting a sketchnote presented to them. Likewise, including assignments which allow artistic and creative students to present their work via sketchnoting could greatly benefit those students, rather than forcing them to write, write, and write more with more traditional methods of instruction. I have had students sketch “how they like to stay active” within pear deck, as well as have had them create a personal collage of images on Slides, but now think I may expand on/combine these lessons by having them create a sketchnote representing their personality and how they like to be physically active.
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