Reading, Writing, Research

Reading, Writing, and Research in the Digital Age

- November 30, 2009
read write research.pdfSlides in PDF fomat

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:
• Understand the concept of “Textured Literacy” and its importance in 21st century education.
• Develop knowledge and skills regarding incorporating multimodal text in reading, writing, and research.
• Analyze current educational research and best practices in 21st century education.
• Help create meaningful, engaging, authentic curriculum that incorporates textured literacy and meets needs of today’s students.
• Simulate practices of the Digital Writing Workshop. • Begin to develop a Personal Learning Network for collaborative and sustained PD
• Outline a program or curriculum unit reflecting textured literacy goals and practices, needs and interests of your students, and community.

Conceptual Overview & Topics

Textured Literacy
• What is Textured Literacy?
• Linear, conventional text versus multimodal text
• What is “reading” and “writing” in the 21st century?
21st Century Student & Learning
• Wagner, Global Achievement Gap
• Pink, A Whole New Mind •"A Vision of Students Today." 21st Century Classroom
• What does the 21st Century Classroom look like?
Evolution of Computers as Related to Writing
1. Microcomputer as a writer’s tool
2. Page increasingly visual
3. Writing as a Social process
4. Hyperlink and distributed writing
5. Digital Equivalency
Digital Literacies
• purposes of digital writing
• digital v. new literacies

Writing workshop principles
• student choice about topic and genre
• active revision (constant feedback between peer and teacher)
• author’s craft as basis of instruction (via minilessons and conferences)
• publication beyond classroom walls
• broad vision of assessment that include both process and product

From Concepts to Practice: The Digital Writing Workshop

“If we engage students in real writing tasks and we use technology in such a way that it complements their innate need to find purposes and audiences for their work, we can have them engaged in a digital writing workshop that focuses first on the writer, then on the writing, and lastly on the technology.”
• “textured composition” <<br>>

Principles in Action

• Choice and Inquiry – RSS, Social Bookmarking, Google
• Conferring – Blog, wikis, collaborative word processors
• Author’s craft through Multimedia Composition – MAPS: mode, audience, purpose, situation; Digital Pictures, Podcasts; Digital Video
• Designing and Publishing – Blogs, Wikis; iTunes
• Assessment – Mode and media; audience; purpose; situation for writer and writing

Recommended Reading:
• Herrington et al. Teaching the New Writing
• Hicks, The Digital Writing Workshop
• Richardson, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms
• Schrum, New Tools, New Schools
• November, Web Literacy for Educators
• Warlick, Redefining Literacy 2.0
• Daccord & Reich, Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology