Category: Literacy
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Thinking Rhetorically about Language Learning
Here is a post that got lost in the end-of-semester rush in my Firefox’s ScribeFire plugin. Boy, it’s fun to find something you thought you had lost, especially on a computer. I never really finished it, so it trails off at the end, but I think that I get the point across. — USA Today…
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OLPC – We Did It, We Got It
Pulling into the driveway this afternoon, I saw the box perched on our porch. Like the many other holiday packages that arrive, I didn’t give this one much of a thought until I got it inside and began to look at the address label. Pretty quickly, I realized that the computers we ordered from the…
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Open Access to MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
An email from Leigh alerted me to this great set of resources. Check them out: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning – Series – The MIT Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools…
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Public Support for Teaching Digital Skills
Here is an article that I got from the NCTE Inbox newsletter that you might be able to use as you plan for curriculum revisions. Although it relies on the globalization fear as its basis, the survey shows that 2/3 of voters want these skills taught now. eSchool News online – Voters urge teaching of…
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Preparing for Writing Methods, K-8
The month of August has brought a number of transitions, not the least of which is that I begin teaching at CMU next week. There are two courses that I will be doing this fall; one is a writing methods course for K-8 pre-service teachers and the other an intermediate composition course. More on composition…
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Thoughts on Technology and Literacy Professional Development
Last week, a number of RCWP teachers met to plan professional development for the 2007-08 school year. The meetings went well, as we discussed a number of issues about how and why we should be doing technology/writing PD and we all agreed that we needed to make the sessions compelling to teachers in terms of…
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Response to “Writing Next” Report
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Monday, we will be discussing the Writing Next Report, issued by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Here are my thoughts on the prompt, “How has reading the Writing Next Report encouraged you to rethink aspects of your teaching practice?” The Writing Next Report, written by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, issued earlier this year by…
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Closing Thoughts on Day 1
Closing Thoughts on Day 1 Six friends of the NWP will offer closing comments on day one! Jackie Royster – Truisms Literacy is not benign – it has social and policitcal power wiht predictable and unpredictable conseuences. Digital technologies make it easier to see Truism 1. We have teachers who want to do right by…
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Reflections on “Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops”
While there are many things on which I could comment in this article, I want to focus solely on the image that readers see when they first view it. Take a look at this for a moment, and then think about the implications of this image on school laptop programs, regardless of the discussion following…