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The New Writing Pedagogy
"t’s been almost 40 years since the teaching of writing in schools had its last major shift, a move to an emphasis on the “writing process,” which still holds sway in most classrooms today. But with the advent of Web-based social networking tools like blogs and wikis, YouTube and Facebook, it may be that the next revision of writing pedagogy is upon us, one that emphasizes digital spaces, multimedia texts, global audiences and linked conversations among passionate readers.
Moving to a new pedagogy is not easy for many district administrators, however, as the Web as a writing space is still primarily an unknown, scary place to put students. But as research is showing, students are flocking to online networks in droves, and they are doing a great deal of writing there already, some of it creative and thoughtful and inspiring, but much of it outside the traditional expectations of “good writing” that classrooms require."
Etherpad The story of the development of writing
Classroom use of Etherpad
Could Texting Be Good for Students? - On Education (usnews.com)
"Teachers such as Cindi Rigsbee of Orange County, N.C., have asked students to translate passages from classic literature to texting-speak to demonstrate language comprehension in different contexts. A finding from the CSU study supports that concept: "Texting-speak is not a mangled form of English that is degrading proper language but instead a kind of 'pidgin' language all its own that actually stretches teens' language skills." The research does concede that too much texting can hurt students' performance on most formal types of essay writing."
View from the Bookstore Shelf | Open Culture
But also try to build a following before you ever sell that first book. Do this not just because it’ll help you get a publisher, but because it can actually be the best thing you’ll ever receive: better than the advance, the editor and agent, even the final, hard-copy book in your hands. It’s the fans and finding them, and knowing they’re out there that will really lift you up and keep you going. The writer’s road is a long one, and the sooner you can find this support the better.
ongoing · The Internet’s Payload
"It turns out that the first time I read the piece, I guess Scoble was in the middle of that WordPress rejiggering, and there was no apparatus down the right at all; just the headline and the stream of link-rich, thought-rich, text. I really liked it. I was seeing, I thought, the core message getting the focus and respect it deserved, that’s all.
I am arguing that:
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Words are more valuable than pictures.
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Text is more valuable than audio or video.
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Twitter is more valuable than FriendFeed.
At the end of the day, how could this not be true? Social networking gives me the warm-and-fuzzies and YouTube shows me what happened today in Iran, but action only comes from understanding and understanding only comes from explanation and explanation only happens in words."
Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com
The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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21st Century Literacies
Twenty-first century readers and writers need to
• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
• Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and
cross-culturally
• Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of
purposes
• Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous
information
• Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multimedia texts
• Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World
Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, passing them along. The only reason the same thing doesn't happen to books is that they're locked into ink on paper.
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Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, passing them along. The only reason the same thing doesn't happen to books is that they're locked into ink on paper.
When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... - NYTimes.com
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
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According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
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Add Sticky Note“Before you could be anonymous, and now you can’t,” said Nancy Sun, a 26-year-old New Yorker who abandoned her first blog after experiencing the dark side of minor Internet notoriety. She had started it in 1999, back when blogging was in its infancy and she did not have to worry too hard about posting her raw feelings for a guy she barely knew.
- I think this is a big part of it and I wonder if your kids will share these concerns as they grow into their adult lives. - on 2009-06-07
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How the Web and the Weblog have changed Writing
My favorite things about the Weblog:
* good support for one-paragraph ideas
* great repository for personal thoughts, if only so that the author him or herself can go back later to review
* content over form; Webloggers generally use a standard style and don't play with colors and formatting the way that GeoCities authors used to
* distributed comment system; no need for the entire conversation to be on one server
* RSS feeds and aggregators
English 202 Re-Design Penn State
Using the Blogs at Penn State platform and Digital Commons studios, students are creating online portfolios, using multimedia to enhance assignments, and reflecting on digital literacy through individual and course blogs. What was a paper resume is now an interactive professional Web space.
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Using the Blogs at Penn State platform and Digital Commons studios, students are creating online portfolios, using multimedia to enhance assignments, and reflecting on digital literacy through individual and course blogs. What was a paper resume is now an interactive professional Web space.
The Fischbowl: We Can Do This. We Should Do It.
We're living in the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history. [Great videos from Richard Miller at Rutgers with addtl comments by Karl Fisch.]
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We're living in the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history.
One Million Monkeys Typing: A Collaborative Writing Project
1. Read
Start reading. When you finish a snippet of text, click 'read more'. You will be presented with three unique paths that continue the story. If you like your options, keep reading.
2. Write
If you reach an end, or simply don't like the story's trajectory, graft a new snippet and take the story's direction into your own hands.
3. Publish
Publish so that others may add on to your story. If it gets ranked well and has enough offshoots it stays, if not, watch it wither
and die.
LPS Blogs - 3-point plan for 21st Century Writing
So I would suggest the following 3-point plan for 21st Century writing skill:
1. Writers must be able to defend the validity of the information sources they select.
2. Writers must be able to effectively communicate with others both within and outside their immediate community.
3. Writers must be able to globally publish their work for some meaningful effect.
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So I would suggest the following 3-point plan for 21st Century writing skill:
1. Writers must be able to defend the validity of the information sources they select.
In 1985 and earlier, finding information was hard and the cost of publishing served as a validation mechanism. But because publishing is nearly cost-free today, our is environment so flooded with information that it's not about just how you find and use information... but how you know you can trust it!
2. Writers must be able to effectively communicate with others both within and outside their immediate community.
Writing a letter to your Congressman is good, but you also need to be able to send a message to a person in China to start up a working conversation because you've been assigned a project to complete together... and your boss only gave you a first name and an email address (or twitter addy... or IM name... or).
3. Writers must be able to globally publish their work for some meaningful effect.
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
I knew then that the book's migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips, and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated with book reading for more than 500 years.
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The latest such moment came courtesy of the Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.'s e-book reader. A few weeks after I bought the device, I was sitting alone in a restaurant in Austin, Texas, dutifully working my way through an e-book about business
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I knew then that the book's migration to the digital realm would not be a simple matter of trading ink for pixels, but would likely change the way we read, write and sell books in profound ways. It will make it easier for us to buy books, but at the same time make it easier to stop reading them. It will expand the universe of books at our fingertips, and transform the solitary act of reading into something far more social. It will give writers and publishers the chance to sell more obscure books, but it may well end up undermining some of the core attributes that we have associated with book reading for more than 500 years.
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