Brown Bag Lunch Workshops: Mira Angrist and Luluah Mustafa
Title: Digital Social Reading
When: Monday, April 3, 2017 at 1:30pm
Where: 718 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 206
Digital Social Reading is a form of collaborative reading that takes place online. It allows students to connect around authentic texts of all genres and turns the reading process into a community experience. Students can annotate, analyze, summarize, share their thoughts, ask questions and respond to other comments. Digital Social Reading exposes students to more contact hours with the target language and enhances all three modes of communication – presentational, interpretive and interpersonal.
Digital Social Reading can be used to flip the classroom and prepare students for deeper level face-to-face discussion or as a follow-up classroom activity.
The presenter will describe the benefits of using Digital Social Reading in language acquisition; describe specific tools, such as Google Docs and eComma with sample activities assigned to students. All these tools enhance interpretive and writing skills while also facilitating student interaction outside the classroom.