Sunday, October 9, 2016

1:30-2:30 pm EST
Design Thinking: Digital Writing in the Classroom
Featured Speaker: Lindsay Stoetzel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
​Moderator: Lauren Villaluz, Oakland Schools ISD, MI
​RECORDING   SLIDES   RESOURCES

​Research continues to emphasize the need to develop teachers’ reflective practice through an inquiry-oriented approach to instruction, and nowhere is this more necessary than in providing support around digital learning. In this session, we will explore a Peer Mentorship approach that was designed with preservice teachers to scaffold lesson design to more intentionally integrate technology tools. Relevant for practicing and preservice teachers (as well as those who support teacher professional learning), we will explore how the peer mentorship process guides reflection and application to shift student engagement and authentic acts of assessment through digital writing.

3:00-4:00 pm EST
Making the Switch: Moving from a Paper to a Digital Writer’s Notebook
Returning Featured Speaker: Jianna Taylor, Oakland Writing Project
Moderator: Delia DeCourcy, Oakland Writing Project
​RECORDING   SLIDES   RESOURCES

In this session, participants will consider the pedagogical and practical implications of moving from a traditional paper notebook to a digital notebook.  Discussion topics will include how teaching and learning change depending on the notebook format and the practical nuts and bolts strategies teachers need to make the switch.

4:30-5:30 pm EST
​Educators as Contemporary Composers: Dispositions and Practices for Learning with New Media
Special Invited Guest: Anna Smith, Illinois State University
Moderator: Delia DeCourcy, Oakland Writing Project
​RECORDING   RESOURCES

Much attention has been given to the possibilities, promises, and pitfalls of contemporary composition, social media, and the read/write web for youth, the messages they want to convey, and the audiences they hope to reach. In this session we will consider the same for their teachers—themselves 21st century composers. With examples from educators engaged in the National Writing Project’s Connected Learning MOOC, we will discuss productive dispositions in learning with new media, such as learning through experimentation and failure, and relationship building through remix reciprocity.

6:00-7:00 pm EST
Digital Writing & Grammar
Returning Featured Speaker: Jeremy Hyler, Chippewa River Writing Project
Moderator: ​Jill Runstrom, Chippewa River Writing Project
​RECORDING   SLIDES   RESOURCES

Grammar instruction continues to be more important than ever when we look at the digital landscape our students belong to today. Experts Constance Weaver and Jeff Anderson offer us wonderful ways to infuse grammar into our everyday writing lessons. However, as educators, we need to address how students write in digital spaces. We need to teach them to differentiate between the writing they do in their digital spaces and their non-digital spaces. In this interactive session teachers and educators will learn effective strategies using Google Slides along with social media, that can help students to differentiate between formal and informal writing while learning new grammar skills.

7:30-8:30 pm EST 
Panel: Multimodal Moments & Making Composition(s) Move
Panelists: Cassie Brownell, Michigan State; Matthew Hall, The College of New Jersey; Rohit Mehta, Michigan State; and Jon Wargo, Wayne State University
​Moderators: Troy Hicks and Amber White
​RECORDING   SLIDES   RESOURCES

With the advent of digital writing practices in K-12 schools and higher education, and the role technology plays in mediating young people’s lives, it may seem like we are teaching “new” writing with “old” practices. Writing is increasingly an activity produced, processed, and read through a variety of modes and media as the tools for composing and consuming text expand.
The panelists in this session will highlight the pedagogical affordances of composing across the visual, aural, and kinesthetic realms by examining digital writing through an array of multimodal moments from K-16 practice. Attendees will walk away with an increased knowledge of how to develop digital writing practices in their own classrooms.

9:00-10:00 pm EST
Authentic Research, Authentic Writing
Returning Featured Speakers: Sharon Murchie & Janet Neyer, Chippewa River Writing Project
Moderator: Amber White, Saginaw Bay Writing Project
​RECORDING   SLIDES   RESOURCES

As teachers of 21st century skills, the questions we ask students should be different from those we were asked as students. Furthermore, how students approach the internet should be different. We should encourage students to read the internet critically as they would a complex text. Ultimately, the research they do and what they produce should look different as well. We want our students to record what they find and respond to their findings in authentic, meaningful ways. We’ll share what we have created and how our students are adding their research findings to the conversation online. ​​