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How is reading changing in a digital world?

How can digital technology boost the appeal of reading for reluctant readers?

> How can we make the most of the digital technology we have in school to work creatively in English?

What is the future for reading and writing?

“if all the sky was paper and all the sea was ink…”

the word set free

readers of the future

bookstart > booked up

why have we all spent so much time

promoting the page when it’s WORDS we love

?

literature on the mainstage

in the places where people are looking

Write Back, Opening the Book, Creative Reading & Writing, Imagination Services, Poetry Society, Poetry Places Booktrust, Bookstart, Everybody Writes…

digital solves the problems…

> access for all

> a means to publish and distribute new voices freely

> text and performance together

> creative reading for real

some

schools

doing

books

differently…

Howdo we define

a bookif it’s not made of paper?

wingedchariot.com

Developing multi-lingual books for iPads

Research their use in London schools

book

a constantly changing form - from papyrus to codex to paperback to kindle to macbookand beyond

a symbol of freedoma container of culturea conversationa bounded entity…

And now we can make new kinds

book

Illuminations

digital expectations

• to read and write• to click through for more• to collaborate with others• to mix media• to reply

• to replay

Found

How to be Twelve

Trip to Mars

Inspire Rotherham

• The Walled Garden

Safe space for studentsto blog & podcast

inanimate alice

www.hotbook.ning.com

http://futureofthebook.org.uk/jacob/readernew.html

the research

96% of ‘lower ability’ students found it more interesting than standard approaches

86% of all students recommended it to other schools

Strong impact on Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills

“The normal way we read can be boring.However this was interactive and made my learning enjoyable.”

but… not just a cunning trick

to con non-readers

into looking at books

Imagination & Collaboration

• Wikinovel

• The 24 Hour book

• Public Poems

• Crowdreading

“the white board doesn’t work - which is good because it means I can teach the way I’ve always done.”

“young people understand this stuff - we don’t”

Helping teachers to‘get it’

training

technical skills

finding the tools

developing the

digital imagination

The Amplified AuthorThe Creative Reader

blogging tweeting publishing self-publishing illuminating learning conversing…

in control of their read/write life

Join the Unlibrary

> Personal profiles on the shelves

> Wall of messages, notes, images, thoughts…

Meet up online and for real

”the most important thing is to publish in people's hearts”

- Benjamin Zephaniah

young poets’ network

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