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21st Century Teaching Series: Use Digital Tools Effectively to Enhance Student Learning

Expert Presenter: Dan Meyer, Math teacher and doctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World

New Directions in Classroom Assessment

Expert Presenters: Sheryl Nussbaum Beach, founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network.

Jennifer Barnett, Technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, Ala.

Feb. 24 @ 4pm eastern

March 23 @ 4pm eastern

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Featured GuestsFeatured Guests

Sara Kajder Assistant Professor of English Education at Virgina Tech University. The first recipient of a National Technology Fellowship in English/Language Arts, Ms. Kajder is the author of Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students and The Tech-Savvy English Classroom. 

Joel Malley Technology liaison for the Western New York Writing Project & an English teacher at Cheektowaga Central High School in Cheektowga, N.Y. Mr. Malley was one of 10 educators featured in "Teachers Are the Center of Education: Writing, Learning and Leading in the Digital Age," a report produced this year by the National Writing Project, the College Board, and Phi Delta Kappa. 

7Sara B. Kajder, Ph.D.Virginia Tech (skajder@vt.edu)

Part One: Writing in a New Landscape

Using New Media to Enhance Student Writing

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Timeline of Publications

“Writing, properly understood, is thought on paper... it is also thought on screen, a richly elaborated, logically connected amalgam of

ideas, words, themes, images, and multimedia.” - The Neglected “R”, 2003, p. 13

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NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies

Twenty-first century readers and writers need to:

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively & cross-culturally

• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts

• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

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Writing, Technology and Teens (Pew Internet Study, 2008)

■ 93% report doing regular writing outside of school.

■ 49% report that they enjoy writing outside of school.

■ 97% report understanding that “writing is important to their success beyond school.”

■ 83% report that they dislike “writing in school.”

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What is digital writing?

“Digital writing is not simply a matter of learning about and integrating new digital tools into an unchanged repertoire of writing processes, practices, skills, and habits of mind.”

- Because Digital Writing Matters (2010), 4.

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■Freedom or control

■Student activity or receptivity

■Existing conventions or student-generated conventions

■Structured instruction or free-flowing instruction

■Print/written only or multimodal

Underlying Teaching Beliefs

Smagorinsky, et. al (2011). The Dynamics of Writing Instruction. p. 9.

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Writing “Non-negotiables”

Developing a strong voice.

Lively, packed language.

Authority and confidence.

Immediate specifics and details.

Organization.

Purposeful, authentic writing that matters outside of our classroom.

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Multimodal writers ALSO...

Evaluate across modes.

Align mode and content with purpose and audience.

Design texts.

Use technical features for effect.

(Reflect.)

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New Literacies PracticesAuthentic Audience

Multimodal Composing“Clickable Footprint”/IdentityInterest-driven Participation

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This Week’s List...

Livescribe Pen

iPevo Document Camera

iPadio

Google Documents

Delicious/Diigo

Titan Pad/iEtherpad

VoiceThread

Twitter and Twitterfall

Jing

19Critical Next Steps

■ Assessment

■ Standards

■ Building Capacity

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Image Credits (Using Flickr Creative Commons)

Snapshots from a Digital Writing Workshop

- Joel Malley, Cheektowaga Central High School

for student samples go to

buriedinwires.blogspot.com

The Tools

• 16 iMacs

• 10 Flip style cameras

• podcasting station

• projector

• classroom library

The Courses

• English 10

• AP Literature and Composition

• Mass Media and Film Production

Reflective Blog Posts

Stage One: Writing as Exploration

Writing to Learn

• Social Network/Blogging Network (Ning or Grou.ps) as a public journal

• low stakes writing

• exploratory

• generate story ideas, discuss issues or pieces of literature

• participatory feedback

Stage Two:Drafting/Editing/Revising

Google Docs

Formative Feedback

• breaks down barriers

• watch drafts evolve and monitor progress

• comment throughout the progress of a writing piece

Peer Collaboration

Summative

Assessment

Revision History

PORTFOLIO• yearly or long term

Stage Three:Writing in Multiple Modes

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind--creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers.

These people-artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers--will now reap society’s richest rewards and share in its greatest joys.”- Daniel Pink

Mass Media and Film ProductionCourse Overview

Film and the Common Core

• Use technology...to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. (CCS Writing Standard 6)

• Develop personal, cultural, textual, and thematic connections within and across genres as they respond to texts through written, digital, and oral presentations, employing a variety of media and genres. (CCS Writing Standard 11 NYS addition)

Film and the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan

• “Whether the domain is English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st-century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.”

Mass Media Projects

narrative based film

profile

narrative based music video

documentary

English 10 and AP Lit

• Reimagining Romantic Poetry into film

• narrative projects

• Original poetry on film

• Podcasts exploring gender

• Post AP Exam

Reflective Blog Posts

Designing in Multiple Modes

digital writing matters

• Increased Engagement

autonomy, mastery, purpose

authentic tasks

assumption of an identity

digital writing matters

• Design

21st Century Skills and Digital Storytelling

digital writing matters

• Connected Writing

Audience

Increased attention to revision, voice, originality

for student samples go to

buriedinwires.blogspot.com

Question & Answer Session

Questions and Answers

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21st Century Teaching Series: Use Digital Tools Effectively to Enhance Student Learning

Expert Presenter: Dan Meyer, Math teacher and doctoral fellow at Stanford University.

Connecting Math Instruction to the Real World

New Directions in Classroom Assessment

Expert Presenters: Sheryl Nussbaum Beach, founder of the 21st Century Collaborative and co-founder of the Powerful Learning Practice Network.

Jennifer Barnett, Technology integration specialist at Winterboro School in Talladega County, Ala.

Feb. 24 @ 4pm eastern

March 23 @ 4pm eastern

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