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Connective Writing:Motivate students to improve their writing with technology-driven strategies
Will Richardson
First, some a story and some context...
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Link
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Film StudyVideo ProductionStoryboardingFinal Cut ProPhotographyAudio Multimedia EditingScriptingWriting for VideoWeb PublishingSocial Networking
Film StudyVideo ProductionStoryboardingFinal Cut ProPhotographyAudio Not one minuteMultimedia EditingScriptingWriting for VideoWeb PublishingSocial Networking
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"Sharing my work online so that other people can see it and give me feedback and advice on it has become a huge part of the way I learn...It's inspiring and motivating, and a lot more people are finding me now."
--Mark KlassenJanuary, 2011
The world is changing...
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MediaPoliticsJournalismMedicineWarfareMusicBooksBusiness...
bit.ly/qgW5tf
What's different?
We now have an easy connection between an individual's passion to learn and the people and resources to learn it.
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Anytime. Anywhere...
Anyone.
Challenge and Opportunity
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Education vs. Everyday
Analog vs. DigitalTethered vs. Mobile
Isolated vs. ConnectedGeneric vs. Personal
Consumption vs. CreationClosed vs. Open
David Wiley, BYU
Right now, schools are:
Time and place. Filtered. Teacher-directed. Predictable. Standardized. Push oriented. Content-based. Group assessed. Linear. Closed. Sept-June. Local.
Learning will be (already is):
Mobile. Networked. Global. Collaborative. Self-directed. Inquiry based. On demand. Transparent. Lifelong. Personalized. Pull. Unpredictable.
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Two billion people will be connected to the Web by 2011.
Two billion potential teachers from around the world.
We connect with those teachers through writing.
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Two billion ways to write.
bit.ly/iiPWKb
bit.ly/iiPWKb
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Challenges and Opportunities
Literacy is changing
Discussion: Define literacy
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The National Council Teachers of English on literacy for the 21st Century.
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology• Build relationships with others to pose and solve
problems collaboratively and cross-culturally
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• 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
• 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
• 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
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• 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
Network Literacy
Students will be able to create, navigate and grow their own personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways.
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How many of our students are "literate?"
How many of us are "literate?"
Discussion: How do we write online?
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Writing is not just text...
ScreencastsBlogsWikisPodcastsTwitterVideoVoiceThreadGoogle DocsBookmarksPhotosDigital StorytellingMore
Discussion: Why do we need to write online?
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To:
To:Create
To:CreateCommunicate
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To:CreateCommunicateCollect
To:CreateCommunicateCollectConnect
What is connective writing?
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Remember: "Writing" in all of its forms.
• Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
• Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
• Writing that synthesizes those ideas (either individually or collaboratively) and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences.
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• Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
• Writing that synthesizes those ideas (either individually or collaboratively) and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences.
• Writing that then becomes a part of a larger negotiation of truth or knowledge that is evolving in the larger network.
• Writing that is inspired by reading and is therefore a response to an idea or a set of ideas or conversations.
• Writing that synthesizes those ideas (either individually or collaboratively) and remixes them in some way to make them our own and is published to potentially wide audiences.
• Writing that then becomes a part of a larger negotiation of truth or knowledge that is evolving in the larger network.
• Writing that is written with the expectation that it too will be taken and remixed by others into their own truths by this continuous process of reading, thinking, writing (and linking), publishing and reading some more.
Some examples.
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http://goo.gl/PZ6TN
http://goo.gl/WkigU
http://goo.gl/2PNvF
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Discussion: What do we have to know to write online well?
NetworkingHypertextDesignMultimediaSafetyToolsPublicnessSharing
Tools
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Blogs: Purpose
ReflectionAnalysisSharingStorytellingQuestioningLinkingCommenting
Blogs: Blogging
Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)
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Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)
Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)
Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)• Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not
really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
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Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)• Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not
really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
• Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging.)
Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)• Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not
really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
• Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging.)
• Reflective, meta-cognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere.)
Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)• Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not
really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
• Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging.)
• Reflective, meta-cognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere.)
• Links with analysis and synthesis that articulates a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind. (Real blogging)
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Blogs: Blogging
• Posting assignments. (Not blogging)• Journaling, i.e. “This is what I did today.” (Not blogging)• Posting links (Not blogging)• Links with descriptive annotation, i.e. “This site is about…” (Not
really blogging either, but getting close depending on the depth of the description.)
• Links with analysis that gets into the meaning of the content being linked. (A simple form of blogging.)
• Reflective, meta-cognitive writing on practice without links. (Complex writing, but simple blogging, I think. Commenting would probably fall in here somewhere.)
• Links with analysis and synthesis that articulates a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked and written with potential audience response in mind. (Real blogging)
• Extended analysis and synthesis over a longer period of time that builds on previous posts, links and comments. (Complex blogging)
Blogs: Tools
BloggerTumblrEdublogs
Wikis: Purpose
CollaborationCreation of resourcesArchiving ideas
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http://gamesined.wikispaces.com/
Wikis: Tools
WikispacesPBWiki
Twitter: Purpose
SharingNetworkingConversation (limited)
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Discussion: Other Writing Tools
Strategies to engage students in writing online:
• Allow them to write about their passion.• Real work for real audiences outside the classroom.• Networking with others who share interests.• Attract readers and commentors.• Collaborating on work.
