Poster 5
5/21/24, 9:30 PM
Digital literacy offers opportunities to engage and differentiate writing instruction. Learn to teach digital writing effectively to teacher candidates as well as 3rd-8th students.
Jessica Nagle
Saint Joseph’s University
Keywords:
Digital Literacy, Engagement, Collaboration
This presentation features a mutually beneficially partnership between a Teacher Education Course for future middle school writing teachers and a local 7th grade centered around the composition of digital narratives. This presentation will detail the design and implementation of the unit and demonstrate the utilized tools as well. The findings of the study as well as research on the benefits of the incorporation of digital literacy, namely digital writing, will be discussed and will include accommodations for EL students. Lastly, participants will consider how this unit can be implemented in other ways in their classrooms/schools.
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References:
DeVoss, D. N., Eidman-Aadahl, E., & Hicks, T. (2010). Because digital writing matters: Improving student writing in online and multimedia environments. John Wiley & Sons.
Hernández-Zamora, G., & Zotzmann, K. (2014). Digital literacy as a tool for self-authoring: Teaching reluctant student writers through “redesign”. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 2(2), 77-99
Hernández-Zamora, G., & Zotzmann, K. (2014). Digital literacy as a tool for self-authoring: Teaching reluctant student writers through “redesign”. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 2(2), 77-99.
McLellan, H. (2006). Digital storytelling: Bridging old and new. Educational Technology. 46(5), 26–31