My digital story was created to accompany a math performance task. The task comes from the sixth grade math curriculum, California Math, covering the number system. The personalization principle suggests using a conversational style of narration to help engage learners priming them for learning.
The math performance task expects learners to find the number of calories needed each day for Luis to have a healthy diet. Next, they are expected to create menus based on a given lists of foods available in the cafeteria which will fit Luis' calorie goal. Once the menus are created, they must choose those which fit in Luis' budget. Finally, learners calculate the total calories consumed by the entire basketball team at the team dinner.
The task itself, was interesting, but not personalized to engage learners. To increase interest, I created an introductory video written with a conversational style to introduce Luis to the learners. I'm hoping by offering a story about his life, the learners will be further engaged and primed for learning with the math problems to follow.
Creating the digital story was a challenging assignment. Deciding on a topic was the first obstacle I had to overcome. However, once I made my choice, writing the story was one of the easier steps. The biggest challenge was finding pictures to illustrate the story while complying with copyright guidelines. I used pixabay.com to find photos shared freely. I intentionally tried to chose pictures which would guide the story, but allow students to use their background and imagination to fill in the gaps. In the future, I would plan ahead, using personal photos or taking photos to illustrate my story.
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