Why Digital Writing Matters?
Writing matters for success in the school and university, in the community and the workplace, the California Writing Project and CVUSD have a common mission—to improve student writing and learning by improving the teaching of writing.
Digital Tools to Enhance or Reform Student Writing
Artifacts produced using technology are superior to artifacts produced without technology.
Evidence that technology is being used for a purpose.
Learning about the SAMR model will provide ideas about enhancing or reforming student writing using digital tools.
Digital Tools Ideas:
Stage 1: Prewriting, Planning, Brainstorming
Choice: Padlet or Google Draw
Stage 2: Drafting, Designing, Evaluating, Researching
Choice: Google Sheets or Google Template
Stage 3: Revising, Re-evaluating, Researching
Choice: Google Doc (Sharing) or Kaienza
Stage 4: Editing, Modifying, Condensing, Researching
Choice: Google Forms or Voice Recorder
Stage 5: Publishing, Producing, Reporting
Choice: Screencastify or Google Sites
Common Core Integration
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.W.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
Earn Your Badge!
Artifact needed: Leverage what you already know about teaching and learning in our Digital and Interconnected World by showcasing the integration of a digital tool at each Stage of the writing process (expectation 5 tools minimum). Browse and attach this comprehensive artifact (can be in any digital format of your choice. i.e. screencast, video, podcast, website) showcasing the integration of digital tools at each stage of the writing process or list the web address in the text box and then click submit.