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Sally Summey

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

  • 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.
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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.
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    "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. "
Karen Lands

why teach digital writing? > how technology changes writing practices - 1 views

  • Many writing technologies have streamlined the writing process (the typewriter is one example), but only a few writing technologies have had truly dramatic social impact. The printing press is one; the networked computer is another. It is the networked computer, the spaces to which networked computers provide access, and the public ways in which individuals are writing that are together changing the cultural landscape. These elements, taken together, are truly revolutionary.
  • When we use the term “digital writing,” we refer to a changed writing environment—that is, to writing produced on the computer and distributed via the Internet and World Wide Web. We are not talking about the computer as a stand-alone machine for writing; although that particular technological development has indeed changed the writing process, the computer itself as a stand-alone machine is not revolutionary in the sense we mean. Rather, the dramatic change is the networked computer connected to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Connectivity allows writers to access and participate more seamlessly and instantaneously within web spaces and to distribute writing to large and widely dispersed audiences.
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    WHY TEACH DIGIGAL WRITING
Lucy Arnold

CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environ... - 1 views

  • ncreasingly, classes and programs in writing require that students compose digitally. Such writing occurs both in conventional “face-to-face” classrooms and in classes and programs that are delivered at a distance. The expression composing digitally” can refer to a myriad of practices. In its simplest form, such writing can refer to a “mixed media” writing practice, the kind that occurs when students compose at a computer screen, using a word processor, so that they can submit the writing in print (Moran). Such writing may not utilize the formatting conventions such as italics and bold facing available on a word processor; alternatively, such writing often includes sophisticated formatting as well as hypertextual links. Digital composing can take many other forms as well. For example, such composing can mean participating in an online discussion through a listserv or bulletin board (Huot and Takayoshi). It can refer to creating compositions in presentation software. It can refer to participatingin chat rooms or creating webpages. It can mean creating a digital portfolio with audio and video files as well as scanned print writings. Most recently, it can mean composing on a class weblog or wiki. And more generally, as composers use digital technology to create new genres, we can expect the variety of digital compositions to continue proliferating.
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    "Creating new genres" is interesting to me... I am going to keep thinking about this I think.
Steve Fulton

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

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    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

Using Technology with Writing - 3 views

  • When writing a first draft, complete sentences must be formulated
  • Traditionally, most composition teachers have encouraged their students to create some form of pre-writing or outline before writing one word nonetheless, there are always students who can write a structured paper, spontaneously. Whether students make a traditional outline or write spontaneously, they will be organizing the ideas for the paper.
  • Word Processing enables students to write freely with the confidence that they will be able to make changes at a later date easily and quickly.
Steve Fulton

Spencer's Scratch Pad: Why I Hated Writing As a Kid - 0 views

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    Reflection on traditional writing instruction in schools an how it limits engagement with real writing
Sally Summey

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

  • 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.
Steve Fulton

Gallery of Writing - About the National Gallery of Writing - 0 views

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    A cool place to publish yours and your students' writing!
Malcolm Campbell

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

  • bad habits they fear their students pick up on computers
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      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
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      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.
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      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.
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    Chronical of Higher Ed piece
Tony Iannone

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

  • 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

http://digitalis.nwp.org/ - 2 views

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    "The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today"
Steve Fulton

Youth Plans - curriculum - 0 views

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    Cool curriculum for integrating technology into the writing process. Assignments are digital and build upon one another.
Steve Fulton

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

  • 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
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    My most recent post about how I had my students use Diigo to assess thinking and learning in their blog writing.
Steve Fulton

Digital Mentor Text #5: "Changing Education Paradigms" - Digital Writing, Digital Teaching - 1 views

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    Digital Mentor Text blog series, this one focusing on the common craft and RSA type videos that overlay a narrative on video/drawing
Laura Collander

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

  • "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,"
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    National Writing Project page that discusses how digital media can help our students
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