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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Jon Orech

Jon Orech

The Digital Quill - 158 views

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    Comprehensive resource on the teaching and creation of Digital Storytelling
Jon Orech

Movies, Screencasts, and Presentation Zen - 153 views

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    Workshop for teaching visual literacy in school through Screencasts, Movies, and Presentation Zen
Jon Orech

islmacollab - 17 views

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    Website for workshop: Infusing Cooperative Learning Pedagogy into online learning activities.
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Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 3 views

  • know is that knowing who you're writing for and why you're writing might be the most crucial factor of all.
  • young people today write far more than any generation before them
  • (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good
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  • kids today can't write—and technology is to blame.
  • "I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions
  • Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment
  • Lunsford's team found that the students were remarkably adept at what rhetoricians call kairos—assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across.
  • students today almost always write for an audience
  • (something virtually no one in my generation did) gives them a different sense of what constitutes good
Jon Orech

From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 1 views

  • Nothing good will come of these technologies if we do not first confront the crisis of significance and bring relevance back into education.
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