This page has been created as a companion site to the National Council of Teachers of English book Literacies Before Technologies Making Digital Tools Matter for Middle Grades Learners by Troy Hicks (Central Michigan University) and Jill Runstrom (Ann Arbor Public Schools).
Chapter 1: A Year Unlike Any Other
- NCTE’s Beliefs for Integrating Technology into the English Language Arts Classroom (2018)
- Zucker, L., & Hicks, T. (2019). 23 Months x 22 Scholars: Collaboration, Negotiation, and the Revision of a Position Statement on Technology in English Language Arts. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [CITE Journal], 19(3).
- Full Timeline for “Revising Our Beliefs About Technology in English Teacher Education”
- Hodges, C. B., Moore, S., Trust, T., & Bond, M. A. (2020, March 27). The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning.
Resources from Jenny Sanford’s Vignette, “In-Person/Virtual Collaborative Book Clubs”
- WWII Book Club Virtual Book Pass (GSlides)
- The House With a Clock In Its Walls Video Links (GDoc)
- The Diary of Anne Frank Listening Guide (GSlides)
- Additional resources: #DisruptTexts and The Nerdy Book Club
Chapter 2: Unpacking the Position Statement
- The Moving Writers blog and mentor text drop box
- The New York Times‘ Learning Network Mentor Texts
- Becky Schwartz’s Archived Webinar on Digital Writers’ Notebooks
- Templates for GSlides digital writers’ notebooks from SlidesGo
- Organizations Supporting Digital Equity and Access
- Taiye Selasi’s TED Talk, “Don’t ask where I am from, ask where I’m a local”
- “Welcoming Voices by Honoring Names” by Kathleen Riley
- The Media Education Lab’s Copyright and Fair Use Resources
- “Digital Writers Notebooks” by Tricia Clancy (no additional links)
Chapter 3: Close Reading with Digital Tools
- The Poetry Foundation’s description of New Criticism.
- District-provided tools: Kami and Newsela
- Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive
- Media Education Lab’s resources on copyright
- Tom Liam Lynch’s Plotting Plots
- Protocols
- Hyperdocs website and gallery of samples
Resources from “Inviting Audio Books into the ELA Classroom” by Megan Kowalski
- Resources for audio books include Libro.fm’s Audiobook Listening Copy (ALC) program for educators, as well as public domain and openly available audio books through LibriVox, Loyal Books, and StoryNory, as well as through district, local, and state electronic libraries with apps like Sora.
- Resources to gamify vocabulary learning include Kahoot!, Gimkit, and Quizlet.
- Bible, A. (2016, March 11). Podcasts Pairings for the Secondary ELA Classroom: Podcasts to use in English Class. Building Book Love.
- Wilkey Oh, E. (2020, May 7). 19 Great Learning Podcasts for the Classroom. Common Sense Education.
Resources from Chapter 3’s Extensions, Adaptations, and Additional Resources
- Annotation Tools
- Kami (Freemium)
- Edji (Freemium)
- Perusall (Freemium)
- NowComment (Free)
- Lexile-Leveled Texts
- Newsela (Freemium)
- Tween Tribune (Free)
- Read Works (Free)
- Common Lit (Free)
- Screen Readers
- Read&Write for Google Chrome (Freemium)
- Snap and Read (Freemium)
- Microsoft’s Immersive Reader (Requires Office 365 Subscription)
Resources from Towanda Harris’s “Learning Ways: A Path to Student Connection”
Chapter 4: Writing to Research, Inform, and Explain
- From the opening vignette, here are links to the American College of Pediatricians and the American Association of Pediatrics websites. Of note, the American College of Pediatrics has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a fringe anti-LGBTQ hate group.”
- The SPLC’s “Extremist Files”
- Wikipedia’s entry on “astroturfing”
- Longley, R. (2020, October 14). What Is Astroturfing in Politics? Definition and Examples. ThoughtCo.
- “The Facts about Fact Checking.” Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #2.
- Mike Caulfield’s “SIFT” model for source evaluation
- Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum
- Association of College and Research Libraries’ “Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education”
- Fake sites often used in website evaluation lessons: Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and Dihydrogen Monoxide
- EdPuzzle
- Society for Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics
- NCTE’s Task Force on Critical Media Literacy’s 2021 Report
- Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum
- Tools for distraction-free viewing: VideoLink (formerly “SafeYouTube”) and SafeShare
- Piktochart, Infogram, and Easl.ly
- Information is Beautiful
- ReadWriteThink: “A Picture IS Worth a Thousand Words: Using Infographics to Illustrate How-to Writing“
Resources from Chapter 4’s Final Thoughts
- The New York Times: “401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing“
- KQED’s “The Lowdown” Lesson Plans and on-going video series, “Above the Noise”
- AllSides, ProCon, Kialo EDU, and Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context
- Additional instructional resources from Kelly Gallagher
- Sample chapters from 51 Wacky We-Search Papers by Barry Lane
Resources from “Project Imagine the Future” by Blaine Smith
Chapter 5: Reading Literary Texts in Substantive Ways
- Additional E-Library and Museum Resources
- “State Digital Resources: Memory Projects, Online Encyclopedias, Historical & Cultural Materials Collections” curated by the Library of Congress
- List of “State Electronic Libraries” curated by the Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Create your own digital bookshelf with tools like Wakelet or Symbaloo
- Flippity.net, with many tools including the “random name picker”
- New York Times‘ “Hyphen-Nation” produced by Bayeté Ross Smith
- #DisruptTexts
- “Word, Phrase, Sentence” protocol from Harvard Project Zero
- Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information
- “Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion” by Betsy Potash
- “12 social media-inspired Google Slides” templates from Ditch That Textbook
Chapter 6: Arguing and Persuading Across Media
- United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Teach SDGs
- The National Writing Project’s College, Career, and Community Writers Program’s (C3WP) and “The Argument Highway” Slidedeck
- Practicing Writing Recursive Claims
- Infographic from Scholastic Scope (no longer available)
- Connecting Evidence to Claims
- “9:30 Coffee Break: Bugs” Article
- Practicing Writing Recursive Claims
- Research sites:
- Gale’s “Opposing Viewpoints in Context”
- ProCon.org
- AllSides and their Topic Guides, as well as Dictionary with elaboration on particular topics.
- Living Room Conversations: Topic Guides
- Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart
- Local and State Library Directory
- Ad Council Public Service Announcement Campaigns
- Infographics
- Tools
- Resources
- Mastery Assessment Description (View Only Google Doc)
From the Classroom: “Integrating Technology to Support Text Production” by Detra Price-Dennis
- iMovie and Garageband
Chapter 7: Toward Hybridity
- From the Classroom: “Rethinking Narrative Writing with E-pistolary Stories” by Alex Corbitt: TextingStory App
- Jason Reynolds’ “Write, Rite, Right”
Appendix 1: Sources listed in Annotated Bibliography
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Appendix 2: “The Next Decade of Digital Writing”
- Hicks, T. (2018). The next decade of digital writing. Voices From the Middle, 25(4), 9–14.