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Classroom Walls

Tony Keefer@tonykeefer

Dublin City SchoolsDublin, Ohio

What Makes a Writing Community?

What Makes a Writing Community?

What Makes a Writing Community?

Critical Conversations

What Makes a Writing Community?

What Makes a Writing Community?

A Writing Community ...

A Writing Community ...

Why?

If they have access, our kids now have an easy connection between an individual’s passion to learn and the people and resources to learn it.

-John Seely Brown, A New Culture of Learning.

“As writing has changed with computer-mediated, networked environments, so too have our conceptions about what it means to be literate.”

-Troy Hicks,The Digital Writing Workshop

“Thin walls expand the classroom”

-Will Richardson, weblogg-ed.com

Blogging as Building Community

Blogging as Building Community

Ilyas, Peter and Hayden are a Writing Community

On their own, these 3 fifth grade boys havebuilt a writing community that (I believe) values ...

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What Do We Want?

What Do We Want?NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies

Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2008

Literacy has always been a collection of cultural and communicative practices shared among members of particular groups. As society and technology change, so does literacy. Because technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments, the twenty-first century demands that a literate person possess a wide range of abilities and competencies, many literacies. These literacies—from reading online newspapers to participating in virtual classrooms—are multiple, dynamic, and malleable. As in the past, they are inextricably linked with particular histories, life possibilities and social trajectories of individuals and groups. Twenty-first 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

On their own, these 3 teenagers havebuilt a writing community that (I believe ) values ...

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What Next?

“Blogs can be really interesting containers – you can put pretty much any digital stuff into a blog that you’d ever want to – but they should also be playful playgroundy spaces.  Blogs are much better as places of play rather than places of expectation.”

-Bud Hunt, budtheteacher.com

“Be the big learner.”-Will Richardson

“Be the big learner.”-Will Richardson

“Learning is awesome”-Hank Keefer

Photo Credits: Photos are licensed through Creative Commons“hourglass” by Tamas Meszaras“Talking to a Brick Wall” by Joriel “Joz” Jimennez “Trust” by thoringside“Commitment” by eschipul“Joy” by Nutmeg Designs“Possum Trot School” by holdit“Stata Center, Cambridge, MA (4)” by Sebastia Giralt“A Slight Flaw in the Picture Pointed Out” by Liz Henry“Writing Assignment” by Enokson“Brainstorm” by TheImageGroup

Website Screenshots:Reading Writing Breathing : http://readingwritingbreathing.comThe Sporting Journal : http://sportingjournal.com.auMark Klassen Cinematographer : http://markaklassen.com/site/?page_id=575515448