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A presentation by Troy Hicks for the SITE 2008 conference about Red Cedar Writing Project's Title II Professional Development grant, Project WRITE.
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Project WRITE
Writing, Reading, Inquiry, andTechnology in Education
Troy Hicks, PhDCentral Michigan University
SITE 2008
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Today’s Talk
• Framing the Project– Writing Instruction, Adolescent
Literacy, and Digital Literacy– Teacher Professional Development
• Current PD Work• Implications of Current Work and
Next Directions for Project
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The State of English EducationImplications of CEE Summit - May 2005
Today, new technologies are changing the types of texts we and our students create and interpret even as they are influencing the social, political, and cultural contexts in which our texts are composed and shared. Since these technologies are influencing the development of individuals, institutions, and communities (and since individuals, institutions, and communities are shaping these technologies and their uses), it is essential for English educators to turn a critical eye toward the benefits and affordances; the limitations and liabilities of integrating these newer technologies into our teaching.
- Swenson et al. (2005)
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Writing Inst.
“Grammar of Schooling”Assessment
AttitudesGenres
Adol. Lit.
Literacy “Crisis”Curriculum
RelationshipsRelevance
Rigor
Digital Lit.
Changing Technologies
Newer LiteraciesAccess and
Infrastructure
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The Pedagogy of MultiliteraciesIn this book, we attempt to broaden this understanding of literacy and literacy teaching and learning to include negotiating a multiplicity of discourses... We argue that literacy pedagogy now must account for the burgeoning variety of text forms associated with information and multimedia technologies.
New London Group, p. 9
Project WRITE: Pedagogy of Multiliteracies Model
Situated PracticeCreating a community of learners with a shared understanding of content area
literacy and digital literacy
Overt InstructionModeling content area literacy strategies and uses of technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and digital stories while explicitly
teaching skills to support teacher
learning
Critical FramingReflecting on current practices and how
our understanding and teaching of content area literacy and digital literacy is
enacted
Transformed PracticeMoving towards a
complex and creative understanding of
literacy practices and how they are fully
enacted within and across classrooms by
engaging in collaborative work
Core Goals
Identify classroom literacy practices and
implement new practices
Develop thematic units of study that utilize
technology
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Effective Professional Development
• Engaging in pertinent literacy practices that will be used in their classrooms
• Observing teacher leaders demonstrate these literacy practices
• Focusing on students’ needs and achievements
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Project WRITE PD Calendar
• Two full days of PD - Oct and Nov 2007• One full day of PD - Dec 2007• Monthly night sessions - Jan - Apr 2008• One full day of PD - May 2008• One week of PD - August 2008• Two days of PD in fall 2008
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Project WRITE Shared ReadingsBeers, G. Kylene, Probst, Robert E., & Rief, Linda.
(2007). Adolescent literacy: Turning promise into practice. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Burke, Jim. (2003). Writing reminders: Tools, tips, and techniques. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Fletcher, Ralph J. (2006). Boy writers: Reclaiming their voices. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse Publishers.
Warlick, D. (2005). Raw materials for the mind: A teacher's guide to digital literacy. Lulu.com.
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Current Project Work
• Monthly Professional Development Sessions– Focus on adolescent literacy, writing
assessment, boy writers, digital literacies
• Project Wiki– Reading and Discussion– Developing Own Curriculum– Collaborating with Others
• Summer Workshop
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http://projectwritemsu.wikispaces.com/
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Implications of a Multiliteracies Approach
The metalanguage of Multiliteracies describes the elements of Design, not as rules, but as an heuristic that accounts for the infinite variability of different forms of meaning-making in relation to the cultures, the subcultures, or the layers of an individual’s identity that these forms serve.
- New London Group, p. 36
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Implications
• Teacher Professional Development– Professional Learning Communities,
as Enabled by Virtual and Face-to-Face Work
• Purpose of English Education– Engaging in Multiliteracies Work– Teacher Education and Professional
Development
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ReferencesNew London Group. (2000). A pedagogy of multiliteracies:
Designing social futures. In B. Cope & M. Kalantzis (Eds.), Multiliteracies: Literacy learning and the design of social futures (pp. 9-37). London ; New York: Routledge.
Swenson, J., Rozema, R., Young, C. A., McGrail, E., & Whitin, P. (2005). Beliefs about technology and the preparation of English teachers: Beginning the conversation. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial] Available: http://www.citejournal.org/vol5/iss3/languagearts/article1.cfm, 5(3/4).
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Photo Credits
• Logos from Wikipedia, Edublogs, del.icio.us, YouTube, Wikispaces, and MySpace are screenshots from the respective sites and copyrighted by those sites.
• All other images: Troy Hicks or Red Cedar Writing Project, Michigan State University
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Produced by Troy [email protected]
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