How do you design writing instruction?
NCTE defines writing for the 21st century
New report offers guidance on how to update writing curriculum to include blogs, wikis, and other forms of communication
“Students who go online today and participate in the web’s many forms of communication compose their writing in informal contexts, where a hierarchy of the expert-apprentice (or teacher-student) does not exist. Instead, there is a peer co-apprenticeship, where communicative knowledge is exchanged freely.”
As always, I wonder how does this help me construct what I already know about good writing instruction?
March 6th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Interesting point regarding the absence of a hierarchy in the informal writing done on wikis and blogs. Currently, I use writing clubs for students to set goals, collaborate on writing, and support each other throughout the writing process. However, the overarching objectives in these clubs are to support each other as writers and taking pieces of writing to the presentation stage. I am interested and ready to give wikis and/or blogs a try. (I have used blogs in second grade, but I feel like I am ready to investigate blogging in a more meaningful, academic, reflective way, perhaps within the framework of writers’ workshop.)