Description
An innovative, practical guide for middle and high school teachers, this book is packed with specific ways that technology can help serve the goals of effective writing instruction. It provides ready-to-implement strategies for teaching students to compose and edit written work electronically; conduct Internet inquiry; create blogs, websites, and podcasts; and use text messaging and Twitter productively. The book is grounded in state-of-the-art research on the writing process and the role of writing in content-area learning. Teacher-friendly features include vivid classroom examples, differentiation tips, links to online resources, and reproducible worksheets and forms. The large-size format facilitates photocopying.
Chapter
Introduction: Writing for and with the Millennial Generation
Part One–Getting Started with Tools and Teaching
Technique 1–Resources: Anytime, Anywhere
Technique 2–Management: Computers in the Classroom
Technique 3–Management: The Hardware
Technique 4–Direct Instruction
Technique 5–A Word about Differentiation
Part Two–Writing and Thinking
Technique 6–Embracing Writing: Knowledge-Transforming Writing
Technique 7–Why Writing Is a Process, and How Technology Can Help
Technique 8–Working with Sources: Keeping Track of Learning, and Leaving a Path for Others to Follow
Technique 9–Working with Sources: Using Style Guides
Part Three–Writing to Understand: It’s All about the Discipline
Technique 10–Discussion and Writing
Technique 11–Writing Short Pieces
Technique 12–Short Writing: Electronic Journals
Technique 13–Blogs and Classroom Websites for Writing
Technique 14–Online Literature Discussion (Threaded Discussion)
Technique 15–Vocabulary and Writing
Technique 16–Collaborative Writing
Technique 17–Are Those Kids Texting Again?
Part Four–Inquiry and Long Thinking Meet the Disciplines
Technique 18–FAQs about Writing in the Disciplines
Technique 19–It’s All the Same, or Maybe Not?
Technique 20–What Was That Essential Question Again?
Technique 21–Learning Because I’m Writing: Logs and Journals
Technique 22–Writing Is (Hard) Cognitive Work: Bloom’s Taxonomy Matters
Technique 23–Internet Inquiry
Technique 25–Prewriting: Composing before Writing with Pen or Keyboard
Technique 26–Prewriting with Graphic Organizers
Technique 27–Feedback, Assessment, and Technology
Part Five–What about Literature and English Language Arts?
Technique 28–Short Writing: Summaries in Response to Reading
Technique 29–The Zen of Writing about Literature
Technique 30–Persuasion: In This Essay: I’m Going to Convince You . . .
Technique 31–Prompts for Writing: Language Arts
Part Six–Composing with Multimedia
Technique 32–Visualize It!
Technique 33–Audio Podcasting: It’s “Ear-resistible!”
Part Seven–Wrapping It Up
Technique 34–Advocacy for Technology and New Literacies
Technique 35–High-Stakes Writing Assessments
Technique 36–Automated Tools
Appendix: Common Core Content Standards for Writing, Grades 6–12
Transforming Writing Instruction in the Digital Age
：Techniques for Grades 5-12
( Teaching Practices That Work )
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