LiteracyMattersByKevinHodgson

WesternMassachusettsWritingProject

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National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) notes that 21st century readers and writers need to:

•  Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

•  Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

•  Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

•  Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information

•  Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

•  Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

TheCommonCorecitestechnologyanddigitalmediainvariousstrands:

•  Gatherrelevantinformationfrommultipleprintanddigitalsources,assessthecredibility

andaccuracyofeachsource,andintegratetheinformationwhileavoidingplagiarism.

•  Usetechnology,includingtheInternet,toproduceandpublishwritingaswellastointeract

andcollaboratewithothers;

•  Introduceatopicclearly,previewingwhatistofollow;organizeideas,concepts,and

informationintobroadercategoriesasappropriatetoachievingpurpose;includeformatting,

graphics,andmultimediawhenusefultoaidingcomprehension.

SelectedResources:

•  NationalWritingProjectDigitalIs(http://digitalis.nwp.org/)

•  Twitter(https://twitter.com/)o  TeachersonTwitter

(http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/w/page/22554534/FrontPage)

•  Classroom2.0(http://www.classroom20.com/)

•  NationalDayonWriting(http://www.ncte.org/dayonwriting/about )

•  NorrisSchoolEnvironmentalProjects(http://environorris.yolasite.com/)

•  NorrisSchoolScienceVideoGameResource(http://gaming4schools.yolasite.com/)

ConsiderationsofTechnologyUse:

• Networkwithotherteachers

• “Play”withtoolstodiscoverpossibilities

• Createexemplarsfortheclassroombutbeopentostudentinnovations• Keepobjectivesfrontandcenter:it’snotthetoolthatmatters,it’sthelearning

• Usethefree-butavoidtheadvertisements

• Repurposetechnologyforyourownneeds

SomeSuggestedToolsfortheClassroom:

•  Voicethread(http://voicethread.com/)

•  Wallwisher(www.wallwisher.com)

•  Glogster.edu(http://edu.glogster.com/)

•  GamestarMechanic(http://gamestarmechanic.com/)