Seeing the Thinking Behind the WritingPatrick Higgins, Jr.

Schedule

9:00-10:00 Setting the Stage:

10:00-10:30 Google Account Setup and Play

10:30-11:30 Immersive work in Google

11:30-11:50 Break

11:50-12:00 Questions and comments

12:00-12:50 Authentic Writing for Real Audiences

12:50-1:00 Finishing up and Survey

Username: pworkshopPassword: pworkshop

http://todaysmeet.com/camdenwriting2

https://sites.google.com/site/writingandthinkingcamden/home

Site for Today with Resources

Who is this guy?

“The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future.... In essence, it consists in learning initially not a skill but a general idea which can then be used as a basis for recognizing subsequent problems.... Bruner, Process of Education p. 17

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Like Oxygen: Ubiquitous, Invisible, Necessary

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Trust Me, Trust You, Trust Them

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Essential Questions

How can we both develop student

confidence as writers and give them timely

and effective feedback?

What formats are the most fitting for student

writing styles?

Which technologies fit well into my idea/

purpose behind getting students to write?

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Who are They?

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Deceptively Native

Who are They?

What's the point of asking learners to write? What's the

endgame? Is there one? Should there be?

One minute power writing,

then let’s answer in our Chat at Todaysmeet.

What's the point of asking learners to write? What's the

endgame? Is there one? Should there be?

A Literacy Revolutionhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/photograham/311323441/sizes/l/

“...we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization,"

--Prof. Andrea Lunsford, Stanford University

Why do we give feedback?

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How do we give feedback?

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Does it have to look like this?

Breakout

42 Eyes

What writing do you do in your daily lives?

What writing do you do in your daily lives?

Where do you do it?

What writing do you do in your daily lives?

Why do you do it?

Where do you do it?

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We have to work as a

faculty to create novel problems

If we expect to help foster a generation of novel problem

solvers.

Things we analyzed

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Transfer wasn’t

happening

Analysis, Synthesis,

and Creation

Writing with voice

An expanding definition of

literacy

Literacy...

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Allowed us to provide students with access to skills that Colleges

are clamoring for.

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Codes

Codes

Codes

traditional?http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/

New?

http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-is-our-classroom.html

Authentic Writing Spaces