Overview
āItās not that our students arenāt reading and writing, but that where and what they are reading and writing is off the school radar. We can build a bridge between the literate lives of our students outside of school and the literacies we want to teach them.ā
--Dana J. Wilber
The power of Dana Wilberās insight is in its simplicity. Students are texting, networking, and bloggingā i.e., writing and readingā all the time, everywhere, just maybe in places we arenāt necessarily paying attention to. Build on their authentic interest and motivation using the technologies they are already committed to and youāve won half the battle. You wonāt believe how engaged they are; they wonāt believe theyāre learning for school.
In iWrite, Dana shows you how to guide students through the complexity of new literacies, including:
- how to discern between media
- how to account for audience and voice
- how to choose appropriate genre
- and how to harness what they already know to be more successful in school.
Dana deftly elucidates the lives of Millennials, those students growing up around the turn of the 21stcentury, and the technologies embedded into their everyday reading and writing. She shows us how three accessible toolsāwikis, blogs, and digital storytelling ācan be used to scaffold learning for our students. And she demonstrates how they can help us address 10 key issues in the literacies of todayās students:
- Safety
- Authenticity
- Practice
- Relevance
- Meaning and identity
- Interest and inquiry
- Cognitive development
- Community
- Process
- Motivation
This book title, iWrite (Using Blogs, Wikis, and Digital Stories in the English Classroom), ISBN: 9780325013978, by Dana J Wilber, published by Heinemann (March 3, 2010) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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