nwp digital is breakfast slideshow
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PDF of slideshow running during breakfast session.TRANSCRIPT
OUR MISSION
The National Writing Project focuses the knowledge, expertise, and leadership of our nation’s educators on sustained efforts to improve writing and learning for all learners.
OUR VISION
Writing in its many forms is the signature means of communication in the 21st century. The NWP envisions a future where every person is an accomplished writer, engaged learner, and active participant in a digital, interconnected world.
OUR THANKS
“ Youths’ participation in this networked worldsuggests new ways of thinking about the role of education.
What would it mean to really exploit the potential of the learning opportunities available through online resourcesand networks? ”
(Living and Learning with New Media, MacArthur Foundation)
CliffordLee
Working on digital storytelling projects,
“ students were eager to revise and get feedbackfrom others because they knew that the final project would be shown to an audience that included the person that they interviewed, family members, and community members. ”
HenryJenkins
“ The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.
These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. ”
“ Students today need access to the digital tools and media‐rich resources that will help them explore, understand, and express themselves in the world they will inherit tomorrow…
(Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
…Educators need access to tools and resources to share knowledge and practice with other professionals, interact with experts in their field, and connect with their students’ families and communities.”
[15 seconds of tweeting]
ChrisLehmann
“ When you have strong, well‐structured, scaffolded projects, and the pedagogy is based on deep understanding, then it’s not that scary that a kid might say, ‘I want to use Keynote,’and another kid might say, ‘I want to use Slideshare.’ ”
GlenBledsoe
“ The best software is still between your ears. Never forget that.
It’s the teacher who decides how to use the software. It takes creativity, experience, and a knowledge of your students. ”
ElyseEidman-Aadahl
“ Teachers of writing are central in the work of reimagining literacy in the digital age…
Teachers need an opportunity to look beyond the initial change process regarding the introduction of tools and new media to the moment when digital simply is. ”
“ So why does digital writing matter?
Digital writing matters because there’s no going back—because quite simply, digital is.. ”