Author archive for admin

  • Downloadable handouts on SF & Education

    Extrapolation and Science Fictionality Handout World Building Handout Critical Theory Handout Literary theory cards Resource borrowed from: Appleman, D. (2009).…

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  • Activity #8: 21st Century Learning

    21st century digital learners have previously unheard of opportunities to engage in authentic, connected learning facilitated by communication technology and…

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  • Activity #7: Maker Culture & Youth

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  • Activity #9: Gamification

    Here is the link to my prezi on gamification: http://prezi.com/p4hwe0ah8y4g/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share And (for fun) another prezi I created for another class…

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  • Benefits of Teaching SF (Photo)

    Created for CURR 317/318: Intro to Teaching English (IS) at Queen’s University as part of the Bachelor of Education Program…

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  • SF and Pedagogy

    Seeing as very little recent critical work has been done on teaching science fiction, both Andy Sawyer and Peter Wright’s…

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  • Activity #3: Digital and Multimodal Literacies

    Gormley, K. & McDermott, P. (2014). “We Don’t Go on the Computers Anymore”: How Urban Children Lose in Learning Digital…

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  • Sexuality in (YA)SF

      Becky Chamber’s novel The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet is clearly rooted in the tradition of the space…

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  • Interactions with History in YASF

    Nicole Kornher-Stace in her novel Archivist Wasp blends science fiction with fantasy and ghost stories and, in doing so, builds a…

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  • World Building as Extrapolation in Parable of the Sower

    World Building as Extrapolation in Parable of the Sower Example Assignment: Grade 12 University English (ENG 4U)             Octavia E.…

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