Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing

Browsing Posts published in March, 2010

Testing a TPACK-Based Technology Integration Assessment Rubric Judi Harris, Neal Grandgenett, and Mark Hofer Looking at the work of TPACK over the past five years Much exploration of the construct — what does it look like? About two years ago, more work about how to help teachers develop TPACK Now we are interested in finding [...]

The Evolution of Teacher Education in a Digital Learning Era: Transforming Knowledge in the Global Network Lisa Dawley, Boise State University The Unavoidable Evolution in Teacher Education Travels around the world, others saying that American students are creative; yet, still calls for reform, especially in teacher education, keep happening here in US New US EdTech [...]

The Gap Between Life and Art: Remix Culture for Learning Erin Reilly, University of Southern California Project New Media Literacies Context of remix culture One in four online teens remix content that they find online (like songs, text, and images) and remix them into their own artistic creations Remixing media is a part of participatory [...]

Notes from “Blending Online and On-Site Spaces and Communities: Developing Effective Practices” Niki Davis, Julie Mackey, Ann Mcgrath, Donna Morrow, Lawrence Walker, Nicki Dabner, University of Canterbury, New Zealand E-learning blends to discuss Blending physical and virtual spaces Blending teacher’s online learning communities and local communities of colleagues Blending teaching practice online with teachers redeveloping [...]

Notes from “Pre-Service English Teachers and Web 2.0: Teaching and Learning Literacy with Digital Applications” Luke Rodesiler and Lauren Tripp, University of Florida Helping pre-service teachers re-imagine what it means to be literate Tools including VoiceThread, PBWorks, and Xtranormal Theoretical framework including social constructionism, interactional elements of effective literacy instruction and how texts are constructed [...]

Doug Hartman, from MSU’s Literacy Achievement Resource Center, spoke at MRA 2010 on “The Future of Reading and Writing at the Present Time: Preparing Students and Teachers for the 21st Century.” Update – 3/30/10 – Embedded Slideshare Presentation MRA 2010 Conference Session View more presentations from Douglas K. Hartman. He outlined four shifts that are [...]

Alfie Kohn, an outspoken critic of traditional schooling and standardized testing, spoke at CMU on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Here are some notes I captured from his talk, “Overhauling the Transmission Model: An overview of traditional versus progressive teaching” You may know if you have been a student or teacher that learning is not simply [...]

Last fall, Sara and I had opportunity to sit in on some conversations about MSU’s EdTech Hybrid PhD program, and Punya Mishra has recently written about this on his blog: And finally, if you still aren’t satisfied… you can also work towards a Ph.D in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology! Designed for bright, established professionals [...]

An NWP colleague, Natalie Bernasconi from the Central California Writing Project, recently sent an email with some questions: I’m interested in how infusing technology into the classroom as exemplified by Youth Voices and other initiatives changes the way teachers see their own role and their own identity. I’m also interested in examining the relationship between [...]

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