Understanding and Creating Digital Texts
An Activity-Based Approach
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Understanding and Creating Digital Texts
An Activity-Based Approach
About this book
Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum discussions, etc.—to engage students in understanding and creating digital texts. It therefore integrates reading and writing instruction through goal-driven activities supported by uses and affordances of digital tools. This book also provides a framework for designing these activities that encourage students to define purpose and audience, make connections between digital texts and people, collaborate with others, employ alternative modes of communication and gain new perspectives, and constructing identities; practices that are linked to addressing the high school English Language Arts Common Core State Standards. The book also describes ways to use digital tools to support these practices—for example, using digital tools to foster students' collaborative reading and writing. The book also describes use of digital feedback and e-portfolio tools to foster students' reflection on their uses of these practices.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Planning for an Activity-Based Approach to Understanding and Creating Digital Texts
- Accessing Information for Constructing Knowledge
- Curating, Organizing, and Summarizing Information
- Networking and Connecting Through Note-Taking, Social Bookmarking, and Social Media
- Engaging in Online Discussions
- Co-Constructing Knowledge Through Collaborative Writing
- Composing Multimodal Texts Through Use of Images, Audio, and Video
- Designing and Editing Digital Texts for Audiences
- Using New Technologies for Formative Response to Writing
- Summative Assessment of Digital Reading and Writing
- Professional Development for Teachers
- References
- Additional Reading
- Index
- About the Authors