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Student sports fans (in this case, baseball fans specifically) can leverage their outside-of-school literacies to comprehend and appreciate the sophisticated cartoons and high-level text.
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"The key idea is actually a media literacy one related to representation: no one in real life actually looks like an anime or manga character."
Book Giveaway: Informational Text Par Excellence… ‘American Comic Book Chronicles’
So does this sound like something that could get the teen and tween comics fans you know into nonfiction? Sure it does.
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Jane Austen, Edtech, and the Promise of ‘Theatrics’
"A narrative experience like 'The Lizzie Bennet Diaries' is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters..."
Welcoming ‘Sanditon’…and a Whole New Level of Fan Participation
"Fans will not only have the opportunity to interact with the story, but actually be a part of it."
433 Words on Why Fandom Doesn’t Belong in Schools
A key part of the power of the fandom is precisely that it lies outside the realms of codified hierarchy we find in school and in the workplace...
Why ‘Marble Season’ is My Favorite Book of 2013 (So Far)
As far as outside-of-school literacies are concerned, "Marble Season" is possibly a definitive treatise on the subject without even intending to be...
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