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The New Literacy Reading, writing, and arithmetic no longer guarantee students a place in the workforce. A different skill set is in high demand. [|3 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Writing] [|Overtexting?] [|What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education] a JISC Technology and Standards Watch Report [|Blogging Helps Encourage Teen Writing] Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers

[|Top Ten Tools for Learning] Here are the **158** learning professionals (from education and workplace learning) who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning both for their own **personal** learning/productivity and for **creating** learning. [|The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers] [|The Best Websites For Beginning Older Readers] [|The Best Websites For Intermediate Readers] [|Literacy with Information and Communication Technology: A Developmental Curriculu]m The purpose of this website is to help teachers, school leaders, and curriculum developers to understand the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in classroom learning, teaching, and assessment. __Step by Step- Building a Web2.0 Classroom” by Drew Murphy __ [|(K12Online07)] This is an amazing presentation by Drew Murphy and serves as both a great intro for beginners and also an excellent model for people who help lead others through the Web 2.0 maze. Drew models excellent ideas and methods to engage students (Vinnie Kebobolous is not to be missed!) [|Article of the Week] Articles of the week for students to build background knowledge.
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 The recent NCTE report [|//Writing in the 21st Century//] identifies a number of exciting challenges for educators who work with students in today's writing classrooms. These resources can serve as starting points for thinking about composition in new ways, as well as for supporting students as writers and learners in the 21st century.

//[|English Leadership Quarterly,]//[| April 2007] (G) This issue of //English Leadership Quarterly,// themed around the challenges and concerns related to teaching with technology, offers perspectives of teachers who have changed their attitudes as they have thought more deeply about the integration of technology in their writing classrooms.

[|Plugging In: What Technology Brings to the English/Language Arts Classroom] (M) Offering guidelines for teachers and activities for students, this article from //Voices from the Middle// helps teachers ground their incorporation of technology in a logical and productive foundation through a framework of three central questions.

[|Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia] (M) This ReadWriteThink.org lesson introduces students to composition through multimedia presentations by engaging them in a review and analysis of online presentations. Students then create their own multimedia presentations.

[|The Book Report, Version 2.0: Podcasting on Young Adult Novels] (S) Podcasting allows students to cultivate creative, efficient writing when delving into literary works. This article from //English Journal// promotes the educational potential of the student-produced podcast -- a genre with an authentic audience and out-of-school applicability.

[|Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies] (S) In this ReadWriteThink.org lesson plan, students are encouraged to examine their interactions with technology in and out of school. With minor adaptations, teachers can use the lesson to ask students to consider ways composition technologies have shaped their identities as writers.

[|Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing] (E) Introduce students to the concept of multigenre writing with this lesson from ReadWriteThink.org. Students create a working definition of multigenre text. Then they create their own multigenre piece about a theme of their choice.

[|What's the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare Email with Letter Writing] (E) In this ReadWriteThink.org lesson, elementary students engage in a genre study of a screen-based form of communication by exploring the differences between email and letter writing and experimenting with their own messages.

[|Rhetoric's Mechanics: Retooling the Equipment of Writing Production] (C) Within the discipline's general distaste for writing mechanics, this article from //College Composition and Communication// argues that the digital mechanics of writing are much broader than grammatical concerns. They include production tools that allow for the invention and circulation of audio, visual, and multigenre writing.

[|Teachers and Technology: Digital Literacy through Professional Development] (G) Part of the challenge of teaching effectively with technology is insufficient teacher training. This //Language Arts// article offers an illustration of three effective professional development models that have successfully helped teachers integrate technology into the curriculum.

Find other resources related to writing in the 21st century at the [|ReadWriteThink.org calendar entry for Teen Tech Week] (G).