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As an instructional coach within a large urban school district, and a teacher consultant at the Denver Writing Project, I have been struck in the last five years by the increase in the questions teachers ask about technology. It becomes harder and harder for me to separate the questions about...
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Today brings exciting news! The lesson and video are posted on the Digital Learning Day website. Please look for the lesson called Writing Powerful Blog Comments – Students develop their own blog site and learn the difference between academic and social comments.
http://www.digitallearningday.org/...
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Want to share your work and inquiries while earning a badge for doing so? Get a self-awarded “Digitizer” or a challenge-completion “Creator” for sharing and publishing your work, or otherwise contributing, to NWP Digital Is.
These badges are issued through Peer to Peer University (P2PU) and...
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Sometimes we make assumptions about what our students know and are able to do in the digital world. I made that assumption this past week as we began our research projects. We carefully crafted our topic lists, and are still crafting our research questions. I turned them loose after a brief lesson...
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Our Denver Writing Project LDC team met online the other night. We staged a Google Hangout to discuss the progress of our study teams and plan for a conference we will conduct this summer about the Common Core State Standards and writing instruction. The "hangouts" have become the way our team...
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When students are given a choice and the option to decide what they are going to do, it is empowering and complicated at the same time. My students spent a few weeks before winter break exploring blogs and topics of interest. They made lists of possible topics, and then narrowed that list to three...
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There has been a flurry of activity around Tuesday's release of "Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design." Here is a quick list of links that should help you and your networks access the content that is most important to you:
Read the official press release
The full report [PDF]
You...
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Call for Papers
ISSUES AND TRENDS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Issues and Trends in Educational Technology is a newly established peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on current issues and trends in the design, development, use, and assessment of educational technology. In addition to...
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Follow our whole conversation on Jog the Web!
Here is my webcomic in response to Kevin's challenge to make a webcomic addressing digital writing's "naysers" using Dan’s Awesome Ragemaker Comic. Below I have written a bit of reflection on this process.
Reflection on my Writing Process:...
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To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” ― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence
The past 72 hours have been a test of my patience and a tribute to my...
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Connected learning is about progress and it’s about something everyone in education agrees is urgent and important -- the unprecedented opportunity we're seeing to rethink an approach to education where all young people can realize their learning potential and their right to thrive. Press Release...
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Perhaps you saw the previous blogs and tweets by members of the DI community about this thing called MozFest and wondered what it was. Now, thanks to a most wonderfully thorough post-event report by Michelle Thorne (@thornet), you can learn all about it.
But if you missed the posts and are...
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NWP is proud to be a supporter of Global Conversations in Literacy Research, a free and open-access series of webinars with literacy researchers world-wide. The Digital Is community might be particularly interested in the next webinar, January 20 at 3:00 p.m. ET, with Julia Davies from the...
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This morning I will be meeting with my support team Holly French and our tech teacher Ruth Maas to finalize the video clip to be shared at Digital Learning Day and revise the lesson plan to share at the event before submitting both for review to the Digital Learning Day committee. No stress here on...
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Cited from Writing in my Hand blogpost
Digital Learning Day is coming, and ready or not I will be going to Washington D.C. to share our work. I have been working and re-working the lesson plan I want to share with teachers at this event. It is so important to get it right, to share the work of my...
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This week I am sharing some exciting news. I will be traveling to Washington D.C. to be part of Digital Learning Day live! I will be bringing my students along with me, well their digital work at least. It has been a long and interesting journey this digital road I travel. If you are just...
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Dear Anna and the world,
So far, we’ve exchanged video talks, and then screencasts, and now, I am inviting you to create a webcomic via Dan’s Awesome Ragemaker Comic.
The topic?
How do we acknowledge the opposite view of our discussions: the fear that digital writing is not unique, or that it is...
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My students love using Gamestar Mechanic to learn video game design. But they also expressed questions about features and abilities that do not exist in the site. So, I figured, why not give them an opportunity to express those wishes for improvements to the Gamestar Mechanic folks directly? I...
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Anna challenged me to a screencast. Do I accept? You bet!
And here is my reflection, which I am doing in comic form:
-- Kevin
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The following was first posted on my website:
“21st c classroom needs to be about thinking, collaborating, and creating #pk20″ (Tanya Sasser)
In the “Tales of Gotham: NYC in Literature” course I taught this semester, I challenged my students to lead all the class discussions. The...
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