Living Authors Are All Around Us
Bill Bass
Parkway School District
1. Articulate the new models of composing developing right 
in front of our eyes. 
2. Design a new model of a writing curriculum.
3. Create new 
models for teaching. 
Writing in the 21st Century 
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Press/Yancey_final.pdf
Passive or Active learners
8 New Media Guidelines for Teachers
1. Shift from text centrism to media collage.
2. Value writing and reading now more than ever.
3. Adopt art as the next R.
4. Blend traditional and emerging literacies. 
5. Harness report and story.
6. Practice private and participatory social literacy. 
 
7. Develop literacy with and about digital tools.
8. Pursue Fluency
A report from NCTE - by Kathleen Yancey 
1. Personalizes learning
2. Enhances learning through multimedia components
3. Encourages collaborative learning and problem
    solving
4. Helps students construct new knowledge and
    produce artifacts (products)
5. Prepares students for the world of work
6. Motivates students!
Why differentiate using technology?
Instructional Leader - Grace Smith and Stephanie Throne
The Read/Write Web
http://www.authorama.com/we-the-media-3.html
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new nature of text and what it means to write
https://bubbl.us/beta/
Contact me
wbass@pkwy.k12.mo.us
Twitter: wbass3
Blog: www.mrbassonline.com
Skype: bill.bass3
     Or text "wbass" to 50500 on your phone
Orchestrating the Media Collage by Jason Ohler -- March 09 Eductional Leadership
Fluency is the ability to practice literacy at the advanced
levels required for sophisticated communication within
social and workplace environments.
Articles referenced
"We the Media" by Dan Gillmor
"Orchestrating the Media Collage" by Jason Ohler
"Writing in the 21st Century" by Kathleen Yancey
"Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Student Writing?" by Amanda O'Connor
"Who Owns Writing?" by Doug Hesse
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/literacy/oconnor.htm
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Press/Yancey_final.pdf
Educational Leadership 66, 6 (2009) 
http://www.authorama.com/we-the-media-3.html
College Composition and Communication 57 (2005)
We have created passive
learners and they're rebelling 
because we're trying to make
them active learners.
Jeff Utecht - Shifting Our School Podcast, Episode 9
"Why You Should Use Technology to Help Differentiate Instruction
in Elementary Classrooms" by Grace Smith and Stephanie Throne
http://www.everythingdi.net/smith.throne.tepsa.jan2008.pdf
http://etherpad.com/nets3