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Page 1: Literarcy in a connected world

Literacy in a Connected World

Meenoo Rami

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Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science

Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – to be published by Heinemann in

2014

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GoalsOExpand definition of

reading/writing in our classrooms

OWays to engage students in authentic reading/writing

OUsing connections to share work with wider audience

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This MomentO 96% agree digital technologies

“allow students to share their work with a wider and more varied audience”

O 79% agree that these tools “encourage greater collaboration among students”

Source: Pew Internet Study – The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing, July 16, 2013

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So What?

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From NCTEO Develop proficiency with the tools of technologyO Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturallyO Design and share information for global

communities to meet a variety of purposesO Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple

streams of simultaneous informationO Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-

media textsO Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by

these complex environments

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Science Leadership AcademyClass of 2015

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ReadingO Newspapers (Snow Fall – John

Branch, NYTimes)O Blogs – based on students’ interestsO Videos – TED talks, Big Think,

Vlogbrothers O RSA AnimateO Authors from your community or

across the world via SkypeO Documentaries – PBS, HBO, POV

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WritingO BlogsO PodcastsO TrailersO Short Films/DocumentariesO Photo EssaysO Multigenre Research ProjectsO 6 words stories via TwitterO Presentations/Skits/Performance

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ChecklistO Know your studentsO Know their interestsO Create reading/writing opportunities

that bring their interests + skills you want to teach together

O Use your connections to give them wider audience

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You as the lead learnerO Where does your reading and writing

life live?O How well do your students know you

as a reader and a writer?O Write with your studentsO Share the things that challenge you

about the things you read and write

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ResourcesO Crafting Digital Writing – Troy HicksO http://digitalis.nwp.org/ - Digital IsO http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ -

NYTimes Learning BlogO www.engchat.org - Weekly Twitter

Chat for English Teachers – Mondays at 7 PM ET.

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If you can leave with…O Focus on the students, not the toolsO Tools may make composing and

publishing may make it easier but reading/writing is still a complex process

O You teach even more by modeling your reading/writing life

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Stay In TouchO Teach my students English at Science

Leadership Academy in PhillyO Started #engchat in 2010O www.engchat.orgO @meenooramiO [email protected] www.linkedin.com/in/meenooramiO National Board Certified TeacherO Thrive – first book to be published by

Heinemann in 2014