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Teaching English with Technology - 0 views

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  • Kristopher Majak on 28 Jul 10
     
    Includes lots of links to resources and articles
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Technology helps boost students' writing skills | Top News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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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.
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Cell phones save lives in Rwandan villages - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • It's hard to get ambulances or healthcare in Rwanda's heavily populated rural areas. Roads are unpaved, few people have cars, and nearly 95 percent of Rwandans cannot access electricity.
  • Health workers must travel long distances to charge their phones, and networks aren't always reliable in Rwanda's rural districts
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Richer Picture® - Sample Portfolios - 1 views

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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.
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Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. - 0 views

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      Diane Morrow on 28 Jul 10
       
      Use ipod touch to have students publish their work on wordpress blog?
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What Kids Learn When They Create with Digital Media - National Writing Project - 0 views

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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,"
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    National Writing Project page that discusses how digital media can help our students
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Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing - Technology - The Chronicle ... - 1 views

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

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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. "
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Apple Learning Interchange - iPod touch. Touching student lives in the classroom. - 0 views

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  • With the iPod touch in hand, keeping a digital plan book is easy, convenient, and dare we say fun! The iPod touch can make your plan book portable and easy to access anytime and anywhere where it is convenient! Just reach into your pocket and you can start planning out or carrying out the activities of your classroom!
    • Diane Morrow
      Diane Morrow on 28 Jul 10
       
      ipod touch for planning
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Literacy Through Technology: The Power of Digital Storytelling - National Writing Project - 0 views

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  • 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
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    Impact of digital storytelling
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A Digital Show to Help Digital Writing: Teachers Teaching Teachers - National Writing P... - 1 views

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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,"
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eSchoolNews.com » Technology a key tool in writing instruction » Print - 0 views

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  • “Technology can’t have an impact on children if they don’t have access,”
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