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Teaching Students in the Digital Age
This week's Richmond Times-Dispatch article points to the challenge that teachers with less experience with digital resources face when teaching students who use technology resources regularly. Students' understanding
and use of digital technologies provide
great opportunities for us as teachers, as the resources below explore.
The
ReadWriteThink lesson What’s
the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with Letter Writing (E) outlines opportunities for investigating the genre of e-mail in
the classroom. For more information, read the article that inspired the lessons: "E-mail
as Genre: A Beginning Writer Learns the Conventions" (E)
from the Language
Arts.
Explore the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing
with the ReadWriteThink lesson Audience,
Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages (M).
The ReadWriteThink lesson Star-Crossed Lovers Online: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age (S-C) invites students to use their modern experiences with technology to make active meaning of an older text by creating their own modern interpretation of events in the drama.
The College English article "Distant Voices: Teaching Writing in a Culture
of Technology" (C) considers the ways that technology can influence our teaching
in light of "the increasing replacement of face-to-face contact by 'virtual'
interaction via multimedia technology, e-mail communication systems, and the
recently expanded capabilities of the World Wide Web" in our campus classrooms
and in distance education.
For more information on teaching in the digital age, check out the Engaging Media-Savvy Students Topical Resource
Kits (M-S). This collection of articles provides
teachers
the
opportunity
to
explore multimodal literacies, especially focusing on popular culture and technology, through an inquiry-based model.
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