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This is a log post on "Three Simple Things You Can Do To Improve Writing." It contains a link to a PDF titled: Writing in the 21st Century.

I found this while finishing up my rubric...good source for teachers. Ideas etc!

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

The latest effort by the New Humanities Collaborative to tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web. What does it mean to write? to read? to publish? The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined. Can the educational system rise to the challenge of preparing students to live, work, think, and thrive in an environment of ceaseless change?

For those of you that are going for primary schools here is a writing website that is great for the little ones.

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format.

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone