MovingWritingWorkshop
 

Moving the Writing Workshop into the 21st Century: Integrating Technology and Language Arts, 3 - 8

July 23 - 27, 8:00 a.m. -4:30 p.m.

PWP 508-30

Location: Bucks County IU, Doylestown

Coordinator: Meg Griffin

This new course addresses the rationale and methods for integrating technology with the writing curriculum to increase literacy and academic growth.  Instructional uses of technology will be explored and tied to current theories of learning to help educators make decisions about how to effectively integrate the use of technology across content areas. Participants will explore and reflect on the ways participatory media, aka Web 2.0, has shifted the focus of literacy from an individual expression to one with greater community involvement. The new literacies are almost all social skills involving collaboration and networking.  Participants will determine what this means in the writing workshop for the students, the teachers, and the community at large. Methods for using and integrating Web 2.0 tools will be investigated, developed and shared.

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