We grow from experiences and we also grow through writing. In the video podcast on the National Writing Project, a teacher discusses how he engages his students to develop their writing foundation.
In the video he shows how his students are learning how to write through use of multimedia and digital technologies. His students, who look to be of middle school to high school age, are working diligent at their computers, but when the screen spans onward, we see them writing before they start using the digital tools and techniques to create the ultimate blog, video, podcast or publication for review by their teacher and peers.
He states that writing is more than just getting your thoughts on paper. It also initiates critical thinking and editing and the things that go hand in hand becoming the sum of expressing their views, thoughts and ideas into a digital display.
What I see from the video is the students grow in experience as they learn to research and analyze their own creative pieces and how they implement them in different modalities. One student creates a digital poetry read, while another creates a video of his personal experience and another group creates their documentary on a subject that they have researched extensively.
Digital writing is something that I use in my class. I am a Computer Technology Special Education Teacher and my class have journals. They write daily in them and use them to make notations of something that they want to search for on the Internet or something they need to write about.
I feel there is always a need for the paper and pencil and that although technology and digital works are great, there should be some writing foundations given to our students to support their digital works.
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