NCTE 12

Communicate and Connect:Writing in a Networked World

Will Richardsonwill@willrichardson.comwillrichardson.com@willrich45

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What is the future of writing?

Write/discuss

Jacob Arnott14-year old Editor in Chief

New realities

CHANGE

Scarcity

ABUNDANCE

600,000 Apps2.5 Billion People

2 Trillion Webpages4.5 Years of YouTube video per minute

16,000 Tweets per second*Etc...

*Japan’s 2012 New Years Celebration

“Writers are everywhere.”

Kathleen Blake Yancey

“Writers are everywhere.”(Audiences are everywhere, too)

Kathleen Blake Yancey

Writers are networked.

This is really good news.

This is really challenging news.

What doesn’t change about writing?

ClearConciseEngaging

Etc...

Common Core

The idea...is to reduce writing "opinion untethered to evidence" and "decontextualized" writing—writing

not based on the reading of a text—in favor of writing that requires students to read, comprehend, and respond to text, grounding their interpretations

in evidence found there. That shift reflects what young people can expect in college and work.

Reading to promote writing,writing to develop reading.

But, what DOES change?

What is nowUNcommon

about writing?

NCTE Literacies

Literate 21st Century readers and writers must:

• Develop proficiency with the tools of technology  • Build relationships with others to pose and solve

problems collaboratively and cross-culturally  • Design and share information for global

communities to meet a variety of purposes  • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of

simultaneous information  • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media

texts  • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by

these complex environments

“Design and share information for global communities

to meet a variety of purposes.”

“Designing” writing

In a networked world,writing must be authentic.

Real purposes

Real purposesReal audiences

Real purposesReal audiencesOriginal ideas

More?

“Design and share information for global communities

to meet a variety of purposes.”

“Sharing” writing

In a networked world, writing must be transparent.

My six-year-olds ARE blogging for millions of strangers, many of whom take the time to help them learn. “Strangers” have taken the time to comment, to encourage and to help my students learn many things

that I could never have taught them on my own.

In a networked world,writing must be connected.

“Designed” for connections.

tl;dr

“Linked” for connections.

Links

“Comment-able” for connections.

Publishing is now a midpoint, not an endpoint.

Writing might be collaborative

What else?

Let’s write

How do we prepare our students to write effectively in environments that

don’t yet exist?

Now Tweet your anwer!

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Thanks!

will@willrichardson.com@willrich45

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of purposes.”