Full Description
Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools.
This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards.
The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students' collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students' reflection on their uses of these practices.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Planning for an Activity-Based Approach to Understanding and Creating Digital Texts
Chapter 3. Accessing Information for Constructing Knowledge
Chapter 4. Curating, Organizing, and Summarizing Information
Chapter 5. Networking and Connecting with Others through Note-taking, Social Bookmarking, and Social Media/Networking
Chapter 6. Engaging in Online Discussions
Chapter 7. Co-constructing Knowledge through Collaborative Writing
Chapter 8. Composing Multimodal Texts through Use of Images, Audio, and Video
Chapter 9. Designing and Editing Texts for Audiences
Chapter 10. Using New Technologies for Formative Response to Writing
Chapter 11. Summative Assessment of Digital Reading and Writing
Chapter 12. Professional Development for Teachers
References
Index
About the Authors
