Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels - Paperback

by David D. Seelow (Editor)

Imagine a classroom where students put away their smart phones and enthusiastically participate in learning activities that unleash creativity and refine critical thinking. Students today live and learn in a transmedia environment that demands multi-modal writing skills and multiple literacies. This collection brings together 17 new essays on using comics and graphic novels to provide both a learning framework and hands-on strategies that transform students' learning experiences through literary forms they respond to.

Author Biography

David D. Seelow is the founder of the Revolutionary Learning Initiative, the Center for Game and Simulation-Based Learning, the Online Writing Lab and the former Director of Field Experience for State University of New York Old Westbury. He teaches in the English department at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York and presents and consults nationally and internationally on curriculum design, pedagogy, culture and learning.