Group items tagged texting - Southern Maine Writing Project

shared by seth_mitchell on 31 Jul 13 - No Cached

more than two-thirds of their students had fair or poor abilities to digest long and complicated texts and understand plagiarism issues
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found such advantages as greater creativity, personal expression and increased collaboration
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promoted a deeper interest in writing because students could see their works published in such online forums as http://www.figment.com
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Sometimes, good old-fashioned pen and paper are the best way
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English teachers were far more positive toward digital tools for writing — nearly two-thirds said it made teaching easier — than colleagues teaching math, science and social studies.
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technology is not the most important element in promoting good student writing
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shared by thebda on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached

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 26 Nov 12 - No Cached

careful reading can advance great writing.
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Common Core dictates that by fourth grade, public school students devote half of their reading time in class to historical documents, scientific tracts, maps and other “informational texts” — like recipes and train schedules
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What schools really need isn’t more nonfiction but better nonfiction,
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Most students could use greater familiarity with what newspaper, magazine and book editors call “narrative nonfiction”: writing that tells a factual story, sometimes even a personal one, but also makes an argument and conveys information in vivid, effective ways.
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Web sites, which have begun providing online lesson plans using articles for younger readers, and on ProPublica.org.
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www.subtext.com

shared by thebda on 27 Feb 13 - No Cached

Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes—opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills
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Teaching in a 1:1 iPad classroom allows me to use technology to redefine teaching and learning. Subtext has been a wonderful addition to the 'toolbox'
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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 25 Sep 13 - No Cached

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