Kuan-Hui Lin｜Graduate Student, Institute of Learning Sciences and Technologies, National Tsing Hua University｜lkh571008@mail.edu.tw
Ding-Ming Wang｜Professor, Institute of Learning Sciences and Technologies, National Tsing Hua University｜dmwang2008@gmail.com
Chin-Liang Hung｜Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University｜horong12000@yahoo.com.tw
▌Abstract
Touchien River, also known as “Mother River”, is the longest river in Hsinchu County. The river provides diverse biological environment with abundant natural resources. The purpose of this study was to explore the process of the “River in Hometown: Touchien River” lesson plan on cultivating students to a digital storytellers. The goal of the plan is to enable students to deepen their impression through the experience of understanding Touchien River by integrating digital tools into lessons. “River in Hometown: Touchien River” is using ” Big Six skills approach ” problem-solving model. This study evaluates students’learning performance and explores the differences on their learning effect after integrating Big Six Skills Model in the “River in Hometown: Touchien River” lesson plan. In order to obtain further understanding of the humanities, geography and ecological environment of Touchien Rivers, students take a field trip to collect related informaiton. With an eye to enhancing students’ ability to express ideas, communicate and share, students make use of digital tools to compile the “common ecology” digital navigation data. The study reveals that students are able to express their creative ideas fluently and leave a record for their own learning process by involving this lesson plan. The ultimate target of the study is to increase the motivation and interest in learning, and to make the teaching materials more lively, diversely and interesting through digital media.
Keywords: Digital Stroytellers, Hometown River, Big6 Skills, Environmental Education