online writing environments do not magically produce better student writing — or better teaching practices — but can allow for practice with different composing and teaching skills, which can lead to better writing, teaching, and administering depending on the form (for example awareness of audio, visual, and design considerations).
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newlearningonline: transformational designs for pedagogy and assessment - 0 views
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Cope and Kalantis
Digital Stories :: Social Pedagogy - 1 views
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Research into digital storytelling among college students.
Technology and Teaching Writing | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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One of the biggest pedagogical effects this approach has had on my teaching is to allow my classroom to become, more than ever, a real artistic writing studio
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But this is where the ubiquitous collaborative pedagogy espoused and practiced by writing teachers everywhere helps. Since so much of what we do in my writing classes involves students helping students — as well as themselves — take more responsibility for each other’s writing processes,
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Education Week: Classroom-Tested Tech Tools Used to Boost Literacy - 0 views
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Teaching students to read in an authentic context is a key part of being literate, says Jeffrey Wilhelm, a former middle and high school teacher who is now at Boise State University, where he does research on struggling readers. “Being literate has always meant the capacity to use a culture’s most powerful tools to create and communicate meanings,” he says. “If you’re not teaching with [technology], you’re not only not preparing the kids for the future, you’re not preparing them for the present moment.”
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Why New Media Literacy Is Vital for Quality Journalism - 0 views
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n today’s media-saturated world, the concept of literacy is again changing. According to Pinkard, kids in school today may not be considered literate in the future if they don’t fundamentally understand new forms of media — things like blogs, Twitter and streaming video. To be truly literate, though, you also need to be able to think critically about media, discern fact from fiction, news from opinion, trusted from untrustworthy. These issues have always been thorny, but the explosion of self-publishing has only made media literacy more vital to the preservation of our democratic society.
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But that’s because journalists have a strong background in media literacy. Somewhere along the line, someone taught us the skills necessary to think critically about the information we consume, how to recognize a trusted source, and how to sniff out bias and ulterior motives.
Should We Really ABOLISH the Term Paper? A Response to the NY Times | HASTAC - 0 views
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I want my students to feel the power of writing, the power of their writing. Writing is communication. It deserves an audience. And that's the bottom line: I don't want my students to see me as their audience. I want them to leave my classes seeing the world as their potential audience.