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10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing

10 Ideas For Using Technology To Teach Writing | Technology Advances | Scoop.it

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"Both high-tech innovations for learning and the inability of many American schoolchildren to write well have been major talking points in educational circles for quite some time, but oddly enough, one may offer a solution to helping remedy the other. There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone. Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and, most importantly, why good writing is so important to their futures."


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Lynnette Van Dyke's insight:

...And see Digital Writing Matters, a National Writing Project publication by

Dr. Troy Hicks, Co-Director of Central Michigan University-based Chippewa Writing Project, Mt. Pleasant, MI....

Ivo Nový's curator insight, December 11, 2012 10:10 AM

There are a variety of tech tools and methods out there for teaching writing that can make the process easier and more fun for both teachers and students. While not every high-tech way of teaching writing will work for every class or every student, there’s enough variety that there’s bound to be something for everyone.

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Infographic about value of Creative Commons

Infographic about value of Creative Commons | Technology Advances | Scoop.it
Ken Morrison's curator insight, January 7, 10:09 PM

Every content creator, teacher and student should know about the power for Createive Commons.  Tons of quality graphics, video, music, sound effects, etc. are available for you for free as long as you follow the rules.

Ken

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Net Smart Compendium

A nice collection of Videos, blog posts, interviews about Net Smart: How to Thrive Online...

 

Highly recommended.

Ken

 

Ken's Key Takeaways:

 

"The recent report from MacArthur’s Youth and Participatory Politics survey found that 85 percent of young people would welcome more help in learning how to distinguish between reliable and unreliable information online." -Henry Jenkins

 

"Metacognition is easier to do than to explain" - Howard Rheingold

 

 


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