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Teaching in the Digital Writing Workshop

Released in 2009, The Digital Writing Workshop (Heinemann)...

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“'Tis mine and it is likewise yours”

Even the unstoppable momentum of 21st century literacy has not managed to completely debunk the myth of solitary genius perpetuated by...

Provocations
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Machine Scoring of Student Writing

Programs that purport to read and evaluate student writing are heavily marketed to schools and colleges—to administrators, teachers, and directly...

Provocations
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Beyond Words: Meaning in Motion

Watching text in motion is nothing new for readers of all levels. We watch words travel across screens of various shapes and sizes, and we set...

Teach/Learn
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Posted by
Tony Iannone
on Nov 07 2011
Twitter in the Classroom: Authentic conversation or "Just doing school?"
My knowledge of Twitter came as the result of a conversation several years ago when the technology was in its infancy. Seeing Twitter in action with fellow NWP colleague and friend Lacy Manship while visiting the Summer Invitational of the Tar River...
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Posted by
Pamela Moran
on Oct 16 2011
Learning for a Lifetime
I'm never really sure how a new format for sharing a project will play out when I first begin to experiment with it. I’m not a tech proficient human who easily can make sense out of how to manipulate new technology tools. I don't see the pathway...
21st century skills | learning competencies | learning processes | learning spaces | learning tools | lifelong learning | pictorial communication language | seeing | visualization
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Posted by
Danielle Filipiak
on Jan 31 2012
Using Media to (Re) Claim The Hood: Essential Questions & Powerful English Pedagogy
Digital Media & Interconnection  This is a picture (taken with my iPhone) of a local hip-hop artist videotaping Detroit youth who are presenting their participatory action research project to my eleventh grade English class in a large,...
21st century literacies | critical pedagogy | digital composing | educational transformation | social justice | urban youth
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Posted by
Larissa Pahomov
on Jul 23 2011
Bringing "Traditional" Essay Writing into the Digital World
The question of how to use technology in the classroom can often divide a school. Some teachers will embrace what's available to them, designing innovative multimedia projects which use all the gadgets at hand. Others, perhaps as a reaction to the...
digital portfolio | English | essays | Google Docs | peer editing | writing
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Posted by
Steve Fulton
on Nov 07 2011
Inquiring into the digital inquiry project
Driving home from a weekend Writing Project retreat with my colleagues, Cindy and Lacy, I didn’t have much to say. Even though for the first time all weekend the conversation had nothing to do with the intense professional work we were doing, I was...
community | digital learning | digital writing | digital writing workshop | middle school | writing workshop
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Posted by
Janelle Bence
on Jul 31 2011
How do I teach what I do not know?
It’s funny how many times this question has come up in my career. When I first started teaching, I knew nothing about my students, their worlds, their learning styles. I was pretty much the exact opposite of my urban, mostly Hispanic, low...
game design | game-based learning | getting started | inquiry | National Writing Project | urban youth
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Posted by
Erin Wilkey Oh
on Sep 29 2011
Minecraft Teacher
In my 8 years of teaching I have never seen students so excited and engaged. They run up to me in the halls to tell me what they plan to do next class. They draw pictures about the game in art. They sit at the lunch tables and strategize their next...
elementary | game-based learning | Minecraft
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