DIGITAL AGE WRITING WORKSHOP |
AMPLIFYING PERSONALIZED WRITING THROUGH PURPOSEFUL PEDAGOGY
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Providing students ongoing personalized scaffolding and formative feedback is the hallmark of traditional Writer’s Workshops. IMAGINE bringing this hallmark into the digital age? Come engage in a rotating station MODELED workshop to learn about digital tools and resources to design, personalize, and facilitate your writing workshops to amplify student learning.
This session will enable to: 1) enhance your pedagogy for writing instruction through a variety of digital tools/applications; 2) collaborate & engage digitally with your students for Writer’s Workshop anytime, anywhere; and, 3) provide various personalized digital scaffolding/conferencing options during Writer’s Workshop.
Guiding students to write well unlocks their ability to describe who they are—and clearly show what they know. Teachers are expected to steward their students to become competent writers and this often takes place in variations of Writing Workshops. So then, how can teachers better harnesses the power of modern technologies during writing workshop to amplify student thinking, planning and writing? With advent of Google Docs, screen-casting and audio recording tools, interactive thesauruses and publishing platforms, teachers, more than ever before, can transform student writing activities to be more agile in catalyzing student creativity, fostering ongoing digital communication, and providing multimodal feedback. Aligned with ISTE Standards for Teachers (S1 & 2) & Coaches (S1 & 6). |
Supporting Research
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DeVoss, D., Eidman-Aadah, E. and Hicks, T. (2010) Because Digital Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Online and Multimedia Environments.
San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass Hicks, T. (2009). The digital writing workshop. Portmouth, NH: Heinemann: Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. Klein, E. (2014) Accidentally creating a digital writing workshop. Edutopia Blog. Fryer, W. (2014) Backchannel with 5th Graders & Pie Chart Questions on the Winter Olympics. Speed of Creativity Blog. |