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Blog post about student engagment as flow. Focuses largely on high school students. 
Just Read Now site with link to vocabulary strategies. 
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media MIT Press Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media MIT Press Fab collection of articles in this book, Free pdfs from MIT Press. 
To presume that reading itself will transform conditions that plague young men such as poverty, alcohol and drug abuse, crime, and irresponsible fathering is recklessly naïve; however, to ignore the potential of active literacy for ensuring that fewer adolescent males become nowhere kids is equally naïve. William Brozo (2002) National data and research shows that a persistent literacy achievement gap exists for African-American male children and adolescents, and that lack of adequate literacy skills contributes to negative life outcomes for these children, including a continuance of intergenerational poverty, imprisonment, and substance abuse. Historically, libraries and librarians have actively embraced a role in promoting literacy, and the library profession continues to play an important role in this arena. Yet, there is currently no coordinated national effort among the library community to address the literacy achievement gap that persists for African-American males. With funding from a 2011 grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the School of Library and Information Science at North Carolina Central University will host Building a Bridge to Literacy for African-American Male Youth: A Call to Action for the Library Community in June, 2012. The outcome for this summit will be the development and dissemination of a white paper that will inform a board range of stakeholders about the magnitude of the crisis, offer recommendations, including a research agenda, about how the library community can actively address the literacy needs of African-American male youth, and encourage collaboration among the library community, the education community, and other local, state, and national agencies to address this gap. For ongoing conversations, research and developments related to Building a Bridge to Literacy, please visit the summit’s blog: (buildingabridgetoliteracy.blogspot.com). 
Voice and Composition: Authenticity Through Digital Literacies I believe in the power of voice. As an English Language Arts teacher, I value voice in writing, speaking, and as a means to critical thinking or engaging in ideas. I want my students to know they have something to contribute and can insert their “oar” in life’s many conversations. When preparing to teach a speech class, I knew that I wanted students to experience an audience that would offer diverse responses to their speeches and one that was larger than the nineteen bodies in our classroom. That’s when I turned to podcasting. [For further details about the curriculum for this project, visit ReedCurriculum.pdf.] Our class explored the role of technology in communication, which then led to blog discussions, the exploration of the National Public Radio podcast “This I Believe”, and students ultimately creating their own “This I Believe” podcast. While, I had many reasons for approaching the work in this way and many questions to explore about the role of digital literacies in the classroom, I didn’t anticipate the way this project would transform my teaching and classroom learning community. [Further discussion of this project can be explored in “From the Front of the Classroom to the Ears of the World: Multimodal Composing in Speech Class” in Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom.]... This month, my articles have focused on the joys and rewards of family storytelling. In my own home, I create interactive stories with my children, whereby each of us contributes an idea, a character, or a plot twist until we’ve woven together an entire tale. Storytelling, as we’ve discovered, is a great activity for building bonds between parent and child, stimulating a child’s imagination and creativity, and teaching children the power of words.
That’s great for younger kids, but what about teenagers? Does storytelling have to end when your child turns thirteen?
Absolutely not. Storytelling is a great way for parents to communicate and connect with teens. I started creating stories with my own two sons when they were two or three years old. They’re now thirteen and eleven, but they still look forward to storytelling with Dad. I joke that when they go off to college, I may have to skype my stories to them every evening. Via Gregg Morris 
In this post I want to share what I have been doing lately with a collage journal and how I think it can be an excellent method for increasing students' interest in reading a daily newspaper which in turn will increase vocabulary. Three things to keep in mind: Vocabulary is acquired through direct and indirect methods, although the majority of one's vocabulary is acquired through heard and read texts. Rare words are often the type of words that learners have difficulty knowing. Newspapers are an excellent source of rare words.Transmediation helps to deepen learning as the meaning made in one symbol systems often does not translate intact to another symbol system. This requires the learner to 'reread' and interpret. 
Recommended memoirs for students in grades 8 through 12. Students at the Toronto District School Board's Joyce Public School shared their family's respective immigration story in digital comics or graphic novels. The project was part of a collaboration between Joyce PS and the Emergent Multiliteracies Project led by Heather Lotherington in York University's Faculty of Education Via Andrea Zeitz 
These teens saw the writing on the wallMail TribuneAndres' first was the word "Ortega," written in vibrant colors and swooping letters, a testament to his mentor. 
Today's artists are creating interactive, multimedia experiences where the audience can actively reshape the stories themselves. Via anna smith |
The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society. Shooting, sharing, streaming and chatting – social media using teens are the most enthusiastic users of many online video capabilities... Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth MIT Press 
Best chapter books for Middle School including Adventure/Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Humorous, Historical Fiction, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, and more. 
Interested in finding a more effective way to provide students feedback about their writing, ELA teacher Sarah Brown Wessling records feedback and delivers it to students via a podcast. 
Using a collage journal with adolescents as a way to visually express synthesis of newspaper reading. 
Search is the essential 21st century skill. Developing search literacy in students should be the priority of our education. Teachers and students need the ability, search tools and strategies to effectively mine for information, and evaluate and validate information. Via Andrea Zeitz 
Think remix as an alternative to Bloom's taxonomy.
Since completing my doctoral thesis on digital and new literacies, I've been thinking a lot about how educators can use my work in a practical way. In Chapter 9 of my thesis I come up with eight 'essential elements' of digital literacies, ... 
"Dr. Baker and Dr. Julie Coiro discuss how offline reading, online reading, and prior knowledge can help predict students’ abilities to understand what they read online. For more information about Dr. Coiro’s work see Journal of Literacy Research volume 43 number 4" Via anna smith |
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