Group items tagged media - Southern Maine Writing Project

shared by seth_mitchell on 04 Aug 12 - No Cached

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Digital media supplies information, but it also shapes the process of thought. 
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My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles.
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Literary figures are openly admitting that they cannot engage in sustained critical reading, in a sense, they can no longer read for a purpose
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we should be moving towards, “a carefully employed pedagogy aimed at furthering students digital literacy, just as earlier, process-based composition emerged as a dominant pedagogical model”
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being wary of public writing in the classroom.  He suggests that if not implemented properly, this public writing can have far reaching consequences.
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“Before students can engage in the new participatory culture, they must be able to read and write
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this intentional move towards brevity and away from sustained critical reading/writing is sure to negatively impact the future of our students, thereby impacting the future of our country. 
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shared by thebda on 10 Mar 13 - No Cached

- thebda on 10 Mar 13
  
  I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I see text blogging and video blogging as the same and both can generate the positive behaviors described in the article.</div>
  
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By having students blog, you are giving them a place to share their love of reading
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When students write deeply, about ideas they care about (in this case, books and reading), their voices organically begin to take shape. Their words start to sound like them and represent them as readers, but more importantly, as people.
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Not to say that writing for a teacher contains no value, it does, but when a student writes for an audience of 100 or 1,000, neat things start to happen. The ownership they feel over their words increases.
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Thanks to the wonderful world of social media, students have a closer connection than ever to their literary celebrities.
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Online writing is a 21st-century skill
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shared by thebda on 28 Dec 12 - No Cached

Gardner talked about the affordances of digital media as well as the possible threat they pose to a balanced education.
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Gardner explains how the digital age is affecting the conception of “good work”
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Gardner details three specific transformative shifts taking place in education, and he goes on to describe how we can best prepare young people in becoming engaged and morally sound members of a global community. Getting a well-rounded education
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