Posted in Uncategorized on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Earlier this year, blogger Andy Carvin issued a provocation: “Web 2.0 and Education, Hot or Not?” He went on to discuss reactions within the education community to Andrew Keen’s book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture, including a blog started by Ann Collier called Why we like Web [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
When I use the term “authorship,” I am referring to the practice of writing or otherwise creating an original text in any medium. For example, one might author a story, an essay, a book, a message, a diagram, a video, a multimedia presentation, a blog, a podcast, etc.
I believe that authorship is an important [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2008 No Comments »
In collaboration with the College Board’s National Commission on Writing, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has just published Writing, Technology and Teens, a research report on perceptions of teens and their parents about the relationship between their frequent informal writing through digital communication media and formal writing considered to be important for success [...]
