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Sally Summey

Writing, Technology and Teens - Pew Research Center - 0 views

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writing teens project

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  • Overall, nearly two-thirds of teens (64%) say they incorporate some informal styles from their text-based communications into their writing at school.
  • Teens are motivated to write by relevant topics, high expectations, an interested audience and opportunities to write creatively.
  • eens who communicate frequently with friends, and teens who own more technology tools such as computers or cell phones do not write more for school or for themselves than less communicative and less gadget-rich teens.
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  • Most teens feel that additional instruction and focus on writing in school would help improve their writing even further.
  • verall, 82% of teens feel that additional in-class writing time would improve their writing abilities and 78% feel the same way about their teachers using computer-based writing tools.
  • All teens write for school, and 93% of teens say they write for their own pleasure.
  • Teens generally do not believe that technology negatively influences the quality of their writing, but they do acknowledge that the informal styles of writing that mark the use of these text-based technologies for many teens do occasionally filter into their school work. Overall, nearly two-thirds of teens (64%) say they incorporate some informal styles from their text-based communications into their writing at school.
  • Parents believe that their children write more as teens than they did at that age.
  • While the debate about the relationship between e-communication and formal writing is on-going, few have systematically talked to teens to see what they have to say about the state of writing in their lives.
  • At its core, the digital age presents a paradox. Most teenagers spend a considerable amount of their life composing texts, but they do not think that a lot of the material they create electronically is real writing. The act of exchanging emails, instant messages, texts, and social network posts is communication that carries the same weight to teens as phone calls and between-class hallway greetings.
  • At the same time that teens disassociate e-communication with "writing," they also strongly believe that good writing is a critical skill to achieving success -- and their parents agree.
  • Teenagers' lives are filled with writing.
  • The internet is also a primary source for research done at or for school. 94% of teens use the internet at least occasionally to do research for school, and nearly half (48%) report doing so once a week or more often.
  • Teens believe that the writing instruction they receive in school could be improved.
  • Overall, 82% of teens feel that additional in-class writing time would improve their writing abilities and 78% feel the same way about their teachers using computer-based writing tools.
  • 47% of black teens write in a journal, compared with 31% of white teens. 37% of black teens write music or lyrics, while 23% of white teens do. 49% of girls keep a journal; 20% of boys do. 26% of boys say they never write for personal enjoyment outside of school. Multi-channel teens and gadget owners do not write any more -- or less --than their counterparts, but bloggers are more prolific.
  • Amy Brewer on 28 Jul 10
     
    Overall, nearly two-thirds of teens (64%) say they incorporate some informal styles from their text-based communications into their writing at school.
  • Meaghan Rand on 28 Jul 10
     
    "At its core, the digital age presents a paradox. Most teenagers spend a considerable amount of their life composing texts, but they do not think that a lot of the material they create electronically is real writing. "
Steve Fulton

http://www.gotbrainy.com/ - 2 views

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vocabulary english gotbrainy resources tools web2.0 education

shared by Steve Fulton on 07 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Steve Fulton on 07 Oct 10
     
    features two sections; Brainy Flix and Brainy Pics. Brainy Pics is comprised of images that demonstrate the meaning of a word. Most of the pictures are submitted by students. Brainy Flix is comprised of short videos that illustrate the meaning of words. Just like with Brainy Pics, most of the videos are submitted by students
Yulanda Crawley

Adolf Hitler: Biography - 0 views

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  • Yulanda Crawley on 07 Aug 12
     
    Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Hitler: Table of Contents | Photographs | Was He Jewish? Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the organization, implementation and execution of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of other non-aryans.
Steve Fulton

PBS Teachers - Resources For The Classroom - 1 views

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pbs resources teachers hiphop justice video documentary rap masculinity homophobia culture

shared by Steve Fulton on 15 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Steve Fulton on 15 Oct 10
     
    HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a groundbreaking 60-minute documentary that examines representations of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. It is a "loving critique" of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form's representations of masculinity.
Malcolm Campbell

Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing - Technology - The Chronicle ... - 1 views

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technology teaching writing social netwrking

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  • bad habits they fear their students pick up on computers
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      Wouldn't it be nice to capture 'gamers' attention for such sites as these? Wonder how it might work?
  • Students submit essays that are longer but not better written than those in years past
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      This doesn't appear to be the case, re: longer papers. Whycome so many papers fall short of minimum page counts?
  • The perils are clearer. "Students will tinker endlessly with the text and forget that their paper doesn't have a thesis," says Kathleen Skubikowski, an assistant professor of English who directs the writing program at Middlebury College. "I receive immaculately word-processed documents that are just terrible," says David Galef, an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      Interesting! Sometimes a roadblock to me is the time it takes to learn the technology associated with new applications and, like the thesis for students, I'm occaionally in danger of forgetting to plan my class lessons.
  • Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
     
    Chronical of Higher Ed piece
Steve Fulton

adflip.com ^ Ads archive, greeting cards of automobile, celebrity, audio magazines adve... - 0 views

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advertising media adflip

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  • Steve Fulton on 11 Oct 10
     
    Adflip provides one avenue for examining the rhetoric of ads from across the last 50 to 60 years in the United States. This might be done by choosing a general topic, such as automobiles, and picking apart the use of image, word choices, and other advertising strategies that also connect to the zeitgeist of the times
Steve Fulton

Comments4Kids - 1 views

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blogging comments4kids blog comments digital-writing

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  • Steve Fulton on 14 Dec 10
     
    Network of classroom and student blogs organized to help promote the commenting on and sharing of student writing and learning. Gives educators a good audience of commentators for their students
Laura Collander

What Kids Learn When They Create with Digital Media - National Writing Project - 0 views

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learn technology digital media

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  • "In this new world of digital media creation and participation, the role of the parent, the role of the educator, the role of the adult more generally is shifting—and it's still not defined,"
  • Laura Collander on 28 Jul 10
     
    National Writing Project page that discusses how digital media can help our students
Sally Summey

Technology helps boost students' writing skills | Top News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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writing technology

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  • Students’ writing skills were in the spotlight in early April, as a new report suggested that an increasing number of U.S. students understand the basics of writing. And one of several possible reasons for this trend could be the growing use of writing software tools among educators.
Lucy Arnold

Literacy Through Technology: The Power of Digital Storytelling - National Writing Project - 0 views

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digitalstorytelling literacy technology NWP

shared by Lucy Arnold on 28 Jul 10 - Cached
  • igital storytelling has changed Butterfield’s classroom. “Students quickly become invested in their classmates’ stories. The sense of collaboration enhances the writing community. Revision is given true purpose a
  • Lucy Arnold on 28 Jul 10
     
    Impact of digital storytelling
Tony Iannone

A Digital Show to Help Digital Writing: Teachers Teaching Teachers - National Writing P... - 1 views

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writing digital project

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  • show with fellow teacher Susan Ettenheim from Eleanor Roosevelt High School in New York City. Teaching Writing in the Digital Age Allison adds that topics for shows, which attract several thousand listeners each week, will emanate from questions that come up in the classroom. One such topic was "How do we keep it real in school blogs?" As with many of the topics, this one stemmed from discussions on the website Youth Voices , a school-based community of 1,000 student writers/bloggers and the teachers, a site administered by many of the teachers who visit regularly on TTT.
  • digital age.
  • "Helping people figure out where writing fits with their technology stuff and vice versa is I think one of the themes that we're figuring out,"
Steve Fulton

FutureMe.org: letters to the future - 2 views

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futureme tool cool writing lettertoself

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  • Steve Fulton on 07 Jan 11
     
    When I learned about Future Me my first thought was that it would be great to have students use Future Me at the beginning of a school year. Students could write about what they hope to learn that year, what they do or don't like about school, and goals that they have for themselves. Then at the end of the school year students can read their letters and see how they've changed over the year.--Richard Byrne
Steve Fulton

Teaching with Technology in the Middle: Diigo for Digital Writing Reflection - 2 views

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technology teaching diigo reflection assessment

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  • They've used it to keep track of information they find on the web, to share information with our class group, and
  • because of their proficiency with it that when an idea came to me today 5 minutes before the start of class of a new purpose for which I could have my students use Diigo
  • Steve Fulton on 16 Apr 11
     
    My most recent post about how I had my students use Diigo to assess thinking and learning in their blog writing.
stephanie mccabe

The History of English in 10 Minutes - YouTube - 0 views

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english history grammar

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  • stephanie mccabe on 03 Apr 12
     
    cute but informative video about the history of English...only one part needs to be sensored for classroom use: about the 5:35 mark
Bobbie Cavnar

Richer Picture® - Sample Portfolios - 1 views

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portfolios sample digital technology project

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      Bobbie Cavnar on 28 Jul 10
       
      Yo yo yo!  Check out my sticky!
  • On this page you can look through Richer Picture® Digital Portfolios from a variety of settings and grade levels. Each one will give you a different look at what kind of work can go into a digital portfolio, how that work can be connected to the school’s rubric and standards, and how a culture of reflection can be developed using the portfolio.
Steve Fulton

Teaching and technology ~ presentations and resources for educators - 0 views

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tutorials web2.0 resources technology education presentations tools

shared by Steve Fulton on 29 Jul 10 - Cached
  • During the last six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to these documents as 'cheat sheets'
Steve Fulton

StoryToolz : Resources for Authors - 1 views

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writing storytoolz technology resources

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  • Steve Fulton on 12 Jun 13
     
    StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like.
stephanie mccabe

The billion dollar question for Arne Duncan: Why has testing become the driver in schoo... - 0 views

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testing questions Race To The Top

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  • stephanie mccabe on 04 Apr 12
     
    Thoughtful essay about the state of testing in education.
Steve Fulton

Can the iPad really help improve children's writing? « huntingenglish - 1 views

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writing ipad apps

shared by Steve Fulton on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Fulton on 10 Jul 12
     
    Good post that promotes the use of iPads for writing instruction.  Doesn't provide much reason why it's any better than a laptop, but a good resource for ideas on different apps when considering classroom writing applications. 
Steve Fulton

PowToon : Create Animated Presentations Online - 4 views

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animation tools presentation PowToon digital-writing

shared by Steve Fulton on 17 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Fulton on 17 Jul 12
     
    a new service for creating explanatory videos through what appears to be a simple drag and drop process. PowToon provides drawings of people and objects that you can arrange on blank canvas. After adding your narration to the arrangement you can publish your video.
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