Generation Screwed
Student Engagement with a Digital Multimodal Text
After instruction in annotating digital texts, the teacher presented students with a new text, one that included multimodal elements. Students were assigned to one of three groups. Group 1 read the article aloud and discussed it in pairs. Group 2 read the article silently alongside a partner and discussed it as they read. Group 3 read the article individually and commented using Hypothesis, an annotation tool. All groups were asked to consider the following questions, which align to the tags indicated throughout this site.
What do you notice?
What is this about?
What techniques does the writer use?
What’s your opinion?
What lessons does this teach about your life and the world?
Analysis of the students’ engagement with the text occurred within and across groups. Individual group data is located on each group’s page. Cross-group data with preliminary analysis is found on the main data page. To view the text, continue down this page.
Three Experimental Groups
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Read Aloud and Talk Together
Read Alone and Talk Together
Read Alone and Annotate in Hypothesis
Five Tags
NOTICE
ABOUT
TECHNIQUE
OPINION
LESSONS
What do you notice?
What’s this about?
What techniques does the writer use?
What’s your opinion?
What lessons does this teach about your life and the world?
Main Data Page
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Students read a text from the Huffington post Highline that requires the reader to scroll horizontally and vertically in order to advance the text. To analyze engagement, we divided the text into sections. Some of these sections include movement of the text that is necessary for full engagement. We have recreated the path that students took through the first 17 sections of the text below. In order to fully appreciate the complexity of movement in and through this text, we encourage you to visit the original piece.
The Huffington Post Article
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Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression by Michael Hobbes
