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THEN: Journal on 2009-07-03
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Book review: Teaching the New Writing: Technology, change, and assessment in the 21st-century classroom
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Jenna McWilliams (Indiana University)
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The pairing of K-12 teachers with higher ed faculty makes for an interesting and fruitful partnership, as evidenced by the NWP's new book, Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom.
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The opening chapter, written by Herrington and Moran, identifies two key purposes for this book:
[T]he chapters support grounded generalizations about how our understandings of writing are changing and how this broader conception of writing--and the skills it draws on--aligns, or does not align, with current standardized testing. Equally, if not more importantly, the collection provides guidance and support to teachers generally, giving them models of teachers who have, despite pressures to do otherwise, engaged the new writing in their classrooms, identifying learning objectives and assessment criteria for their e-writing projects.
The book succeeds wildly at both goals, painting a picture of a slow but revolutionary change in what it means to write, and to teach writing, in a participatory culture.
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In "Senior Boards: Multimedia Presentations from Yearlong Research and Community-Based Culminating Project," Bryan Ripley Crandall describes his effort to shift senior project requirements to prepare learners for "writing for the real world":
[A]s an English teacher, I've had to adapt with new technology to keep up. I feel obligated to provide students the best technological resources I can because I recognize an online, digital life is what my students know and where they'll be in the future. Digital literacy is a growing expectation of higher education, employers, parents, and students.
Here, Crandall points to two key sentiments that run through Teaching the New Writing: That writing teachers recognize the need to integrate new media technologies and practices into their classrooms, and that they feel a little desperate at finding strategies for keeping up with the technological and cultural changes that give rise to this need.
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Teachers Teaching Teachers #155 - 06.10.09 - (1 of 3) What's So New About Teaching the New Writing? | EdTechTalk on 2009-07-03
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Editors
Anne Herrington,
Kevin Hodgson, and
Charles Moran from the
Western Massachusetts Writing Project ... address[ed] these and other questions in this podcast, drawing from insights and discoveries they made while writing their new book,
Teaching the New Writing. The book pulls together teachers’ stories, practices, and examples of students’ creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and electronic poetry.
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Top News - Students say using tech to cheat isn't cheating on 2009-06-19
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A new poll conducted by the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media suggests that students are using cell phones and the internet to cheat on school exams. What's surprising, however, is not just the alarming number of students who say they cheat, but also the number of students who think it's OK to do so.
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According to the poll, more than a third of teens with cell phones (35 percent) admit to cheating at least once with them, and two-thirds of all teens (65 percent) say others in their school cheat with them.
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Of the teens who admit to cheating with their cell phones, 26 percent say they store information on their phone to look at during a test, 25 percent text friends about answers during a test, 17 percent take pictures of the test to send to friends, and 20 percent search the internet for answers during tests using their phones.
Also, nearly half (48 percent) of teens with cell phones call or text their friends to warn them about pop quizzes.
What's more, just over half of students polled (52 percent) admitted to some form of cheating involving the internet.
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Twenty-one percent of students say they've downloaded a paper or report from the internet to turn in, while 50 percent have seen or heard about others doing this; 38 percent have copied text from web sites and turned it in as their own work, while 60 percent have seen or heard this; and 32 percent have searched for teachers' manuals or publishers' solutions to problems in textbooks they are currently using; while 47 percent have seen or heard this.
Even more concerning is that many students do not consider this behavior as cheating. Only about half of students polled admit that cell phone use during tests is a serious cheating offense, and just 16 percent say calling or texting friends to warn them of a pop quiz is cheating; instead, they believe they're simply helping a friend.
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One reason so many teens are using technology to cheat during exams might be because most parents don't realize their child is engaged in such activity.
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Related Top News - House panel explores ed tech's value on 2009-06-19
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A panel of educational technology experts spoke before the members of the House Education and Labor Committee June 16, stressing the importance that technology plays in the classroom as well as the need for continued professional development.
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"I feel that if we do not adapt schools to the integrating and embedding of these tools into instruction," American students will fall behind globally, Miller said. "I think this is a very exciting moment for American education."
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Aneesh Chopra, chief technology officer for the White House Office for Science and Technology, stressed that there is more than one type of professional development needed for teachers to keep up with technology developments.
"Initially, a teacher has to learn to use [a technology], and then [he or she has] to learn different methodologies and ways to use it in teaching," he said. He said technology professional development should be integrated with the professional development that teachers already are required to participate in.
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Learning Without Limits on 2009-05-23
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Learning Without Limits
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How online instruction is transforming education
Online learning is no longer regarded with the skepticism it was a decade ago—and now thousands of K-12 schools nationwide are turning to online-learning providers for help with credit recovery, enrichment opportunities for gifted students, and even for providing core curriculum classes in areas where there isn’t enough demand to justify keeping a teacher on staff.
Online learning is also meeting a need for students who have trouble learning in a traditional school environment, which is key in this era of heightened accountability—along with a growing awareness that not all students learn the same way or have the same educational needs. What’s more, it’s a cost-effective way for schools to address all of these areas, which is an important consideration in the current economic climate.
That said, there are significant challenges to online learning that states and local school systems are still grappling with, such as outdated “seat-time” requirements, funding disputes, accountability concerns, and state teaching certification questions.
With the generous support of K12 Inc., we’ve assembled this collection of stories from our archives to help school leaders better understand the online-learning landscape—and how it’s transforming education as we know it.
--The Editors
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Learning Without Limits Articles - Internships help prepare future online teachers on 2009-05-23
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Internships help prepare future online teachers Florida Virtual School teams up with University of Central Florida in a program aimed at preparing teachers-to-be for online instruction By Maya T. Prabhu, Assistant Editor
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After spending seven weeks at FLVS, interns will spend seven weeks in traditional classrooms in central Florida, said Brian Marchman, instructional leader with FLVS.
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"We're a forward-thinking institution here," said Michael Hynes, the chair of the Teaching and Learning Principles department at UCF, in a press release. "We want to be thinking ahead of where the education industry is now. We have great confidence this pilot is going to work. It will give our students an edge, because they will not only know how to teach a traditional class, they will also know how to do it virtually."
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Learning Without Limits Articles - AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools on 2009-05-23
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AASA hears what's about to disrupt schools Online instruction, says best-selling education author, will change schooling as we know it--if we're lucky By Dennis Pierce, Managing Editor
Primary Topic Channel:
AASA
Disruptive innovations are based on the idea that every so often, a new innovation comes along that completely changes the marketplace.
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If Harvard Business School's Clayton Christensen is right, half of all instruction will take place online within the next 10 years--and schools had better get into the online-learning market or risk losing their students to other providers.
Christensen was at the American Association of School Administrators conference in San Francisco Feb. 19 to discuss his book Disrupting Class, which looks at why schools have struggled to improve through the lens of "disruptive innovation."
Disruptive innovation is the business idea that, every so often, a new innovation comes along that completely changes the marketplace, knocking the old market leaders from their perch and giving rise to new ones.
Disruptive innovations transform products or services into something so simple that anyone can use them, creating what Christensen called "asymmetric competition."
Because they take advantage of these radical innovations, new entrants to the marketplace are essentially competing against "non-consumption"--that is, they're getting customers who didn't exist in that market before--while the innovation continues to improve.
Once the new innovation has matured, these companies are in a great position to compete with the established market leaders, Christensen said--and therefore they nearly always win.
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Special Reports - Learning without limits on 2009-05-23
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Learning without limits How the rise of online instruction is changing the nature of schooling By Christine Van Dusen
Primary Topic Channel:
Virtual schooling / Distance Learning
More students and teachers are turning to online instruction.
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Zach Bonner is a smart kid, but he's a bit confused to hear that some adults still assume students in online schools are somehow worse off and spend all day chained to a computer, never learning to socialize in the real world.
Though he may be a full-time Florida fifth-grader whose classwork is completed in his family's Valrico kitchen, less than a quarter of his time is spent in front of a computer screen. More often Zach is doing science experiments, taking field trips, bike-riding with friends from his neighborhood, reading White Fang, playing tennis--on real courts, not on a Wii--and running the Little Red Wagon Foundation, a nonprofit he founded at age 8.
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Learning without limits How the rise of online instruction is changing the nature of schooling By Christine Van Dusen
Primary Topic Channel:
Virtual schooling / Distance Learning
More students and teachers are turning to online instruction.
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Zach Bonner is a smart kid, but he's a bit confused to hear that some adults still assume students in online schools are somehow worse off and spend all day chained to a computer, never learning to socialize in the real world.
Though he may be a full-time Florida fifth-grader whose classwork is completed in his family's Valrico kitchen, less than a quarter of his time is spent in front of a computer screen. More often Zach is doing science experiments, taking field trips, bike-riding with friends from his neighborhood, reading White Fang, playing tennis--on real courts, not on a Wii--and running the Little Red Wagon Foundation, a nonprofit he founded at age 8.
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Learning without limits How the rise of online instruction is changing the nature of schooling By Christine Van Dusen
Primary Topic Channel:
Virtual schooling / Distance Learning
More students and teachers are turning to online instruction.
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Zach Bonner is a smart kid, but he's a bit confused to hear that some adults still assume students in online schools are somehow worse off and spend all day chained to a computer, never learning to socialize in the real world.
Though he may be a full-time Florida fifth-grader whose classwork is completed in his family's Valrico kitchen, less than a quarter of his time is spent in front of a computer screen. More often Zach is doing science experiments, taking field trips, bike-riding with friends from his neighborhood, reading White Fang, playing tennis--on real courts, not on a Wii--and running the Little Red Wagon Foundation, a nonprofit he founded at age 8.
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Obama on Math, Science and Tech Education on 2009-04-10
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Technology Investment Fund
Obama will build on existing federal education technology programs and create a $500 million matching fund to ensure technology is fully integrated throughout schools. This fund will:
- Integrate technology throughout the classroom so innovative learning technologies can assist in improving the quality of learning and instruction.
- Develop technology-based student assessments that allow teachers and parents to identify and focus on individual needs and talents throughout the school year.
- Create new technology-based curriculum with leaders in the technology industry so schools can create courses around developing high-demand technology skills and working on authentic projects.
- Use technology to allow teachers to work collaboratively with their peers across the country to share best practices and support teachers to provide more individualized assistance to students.
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The Top 10 Tech Skills Your Teen Needs Now on 2009-04-09
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The Top 10 Tech Skills Your Teen Needs Now
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But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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If you’re like most parents, you wonder whether your child is spending too much time on the computer. But the next time that you’re tempted to tell your child to log out, remember that he’s learning the skills that are vital to his future. It’s no longer enough for students to get an education if they want a great job; they also need the technology know-how that employers have come to expect.
But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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If you’re like most parents, you wonder whether your child is spending too much time on the computer. But the next time that you’re tempted to tell your child to log out, remember that he’s learning the skills that are vital to his future. It’s no longer enough for students to get an education if they want a great job; they also need the technology know-how that employers have come to expect.
But the question remains: which skills do they really need? Is it important for your student to be able to negotiate Facebook? Does she really need to be sending all of those e-mails? It’s hard to know which computer applications are important to her future, and which ones are distracting her from her math homework.
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