KimP's Blog » Kathleen Blake Yancey http://kpericles.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Writing in the 21st Century @ NECC09 http://kpericles.edublogs.org/2009/07/01/writing-in-the-21st-century-necc09/ http://kpericles.edublogs.org/2009/07/01/writing-in-the-21st-century-necc09/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:03:14 +0000 Kim http://kpericles.edublogs.org/?p=191 Kathleen Blake Yancey wrote this great piece about writing in the 21st century, so I was not going to miss this session!

How is literacy different now – not just the tools.

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Cramped definition of writing – what does writing look like today?

Writing is happening in new and exciting ways

Historical context - 

  •       Personal + response
  •       Discipline & punishment – punitive
  •       Cartoon + humour
  •       Protest – graffiti, posters
  •       As a process different types of writing
  •       Writing model is made linear ( in learning institutions)
  •       Digitised – publishing opportunities
  •       Connecting + visuals (colours, images impact on writing)
  •       New & exciting ways to connect – part of the process – which medium and why??
  •       Now not just the computer or screen BUT web2.0

 

WRITING TODAY IN SCHOOLS – activities to try

1.    Blogging from school to the world

  •       Discussion board
  •       Answering about book
  •       Different criteria – not words but response to others (respect, regard for others)

2.    Becoming Jane Austen

  •       Character/ persona of someone you study
  •       Relationships with others, thoughts

3.    Information Ecology

  •       Owned by others, gated, bureaucracy
  •       New model = online
  •       Answer a question using only blogs
  •       Map the journey
  •       How do we decide what is trustworthy and what is not?
  •       Academic, mainstream & alternative sources
  •       Need to be explicit so students can be explicit
  •       Time Magazine top 25 list of blogs

4.    Blogging as Learning in Action

  •       Where do we see poetry in the culture – how is it poetic?
  •       Blog of unnecessary quotation marks
  •       Signs – changing over time and the assumptions they make

 

 

WRITING TODAY

  •       Need to de-construct
  •       “out in the culture” & blog about it to share with others
  •       embrace learning together – participation
  •       tool set (blogs, wikis, twitter) to control – which tool to use when to connect to others???

 

 

 

PARTICIPATION NOW

  •       experts and lay people composing knowledge
  •       citizen knowledge – available to participate in science projects -
  •       built into the model of scientific data gathering
  •       citizens journalists composing news
  •       “I” reporters
  •       started as a result of crisies
  •       when people are helping each other there is greater trustworthiness
  •       history is being made before our eyes – primary sources
  •       now people are reporting why
  •       citizens composing power
  •       eg Iran – twitter, blogs
  •       blog is a tool that connects to other tools

 

 

 

 

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