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Abstract

Thesis: Writing fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama as a learning community in English curriculums in distance settings with self-assessments through metacognitive pedagogy can improve student learning and achievement. Engage and interact with every student.

Stories that students create in the new literature of the social network become the new voices for a global cultural literature revolution. By telescoping into a shorter version of oral history, writers succeed in the learning community. The framework short story fuses authentic assessment and multiculturalism as a focus to envision the student in a creative process to offer transformation.

Globalization of the literary canon requires applications of the aspects of oral history traditions. My class is organized to become a learning community with a focus writing short stories as authentic assessments to develop student voices.

 

As cultures converge in global 21st century classroom, students of multiethnic backgrounds require varied models to succeed. Reading, writing, and arithmetic which served our industrial society may be enhanced by a new fourth “R” or remembrance as educational focus for the age of technology and multiculturalism. Language is the basis of classrooms whether traditional, enhanced or distance. In fact, Howard Gardner, in Frames of Mind (1983 page 78), regards the “rhetorical aspects of language as the ability to use language to convince other individuals of a course of action; the mnemonic potential of language to help one remember information; the role of language in explanation and the potential of language to explain and reflect on itself as in metalinguistic analysis.”