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DANAH HASHEMMA ENGLISH/MA TEACHING CANDIDATE

SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY

UMASS BOSTON ENGAGING PRACTICES CONFERENCE

28 MARCH, 2015

Using the Digital Writer/Reader Relationship to Teach Writing as

a Social Act

UMass Boston Engaging Practices Conference

21st Century Literacies Defined

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a collection of cultural and and communicative practices shared

among members of particular groups.

-National Council of Teachers of English


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I live in a world of other’s words.

-Mikhail Bakhtin


Author Reader

The Conflated Author/Reader Relationship

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“Reader and Writer become part of each others’ sustaining environment” – Kenneth Brufee


Digital Writing Defined

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Compositions created with, and often times for reading and viewing on, a computer or

other device that is connected to the Internet.

-National Writing Project


Blog Post Screenshot

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Facebook Post

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Forum Question

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Email Thread

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Traditional Print Text

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Digital Text

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In this new… world, it is the readers who fashion their own knowledge, from information

supplied by makers of the site.

-Gunther Kress


Digital Writing Genres Fit for Classroom Use

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A Class Blog

Academic Forums

News Article Comment Section

Emails to Politicians or Activists

Twitter


Digital Writing Is…

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critical of dominant ideologies about language that reinforce

existing and often unjust power structures, which exclude certain social actors from

participating in communicative exchanges.

-Elizabeth Losh


THANK YOU

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