april 11 tech night
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technology presentation for digital literacyTRANSCRIPT
Digital Literacy in Language Arts
Instruction Cathy Danahy, River Edge Schools Literacy Coach
Patrice Pintarelli, Grade 4 Roosevelt School
Digital Reading and Writing as a genre
Writing workshop is genre based
Our world of print has expanded
Should we be recognizing digital literacy as a genre?
What role does digital reading and writing play in Language Arts Instruction? Digital Literacy in terms of standards and NJ ASK
Blogging Using a blog as a way to explore teaching digital literacy
Finding a co-researcher
Created 2 blogs, one to serve as way for us (teachers) to practice blogging
Kidblog as a way for students to blog
Blog 1 also served as a record of our teaching Kidblog needed to be secure and allowed for teacher controls All district protocol for internet use were adhered to Parental consent Writing was supervised and monitored closely
Outcomes of Immersion
2 kinds of writing – commenting and posting
Posting is idea based and opinion based writing.
Blog posts resemble personal essays
Commenting lead us to teach digital citizenship and netiquette
Writing Blog Posts To teach how to write blog posts, we used what we
know about process writing. In process writing students draft, revise and edit.
Whenever we were stuck on where we needed to go, we talked together and relied on what we know about teaching writing to guide us. Ex blog posts were not long enough, details not
developed or elaborated on
We realized that we not teaching technology we were teaching writing!
What we learned Blogging is a way to publish writing and make it public
The same skills used to teach students how to write in non-narrative form are utilized in writing blog posts and comments
Allowing students to comment on each other’s blog posts makes writing seem valued. It allows us to teach responding to reading skills as well as digital citizenship
Blog writing is standards based
Blogging is a student motivator!
Our unit is now a mentor for others
This kind of teaching is new and exciting and educators everywhere are looking to find examples of how it's being done. Visitors from Mexico, Australia and all over the US have visited and commented on our blog
Troy Hicks, a professor of education and author listed our blog on his syllabus
Two writing teachers
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