Book

Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students

by Sara Kajder

Adolescents and Digital Literacies: Learning Alongside Our Students
Grades
9 - 12
Type
Book
Pages
119
Published
January 2010
Publisher
NCTE
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Description

This book isn't about technology. It's about the teaching practices that technology enables. Instead of focusing on where to point and click, this book addresses the ways in which teachers and students work together to navigate continuous change and what it means to read, write, view, listen, and communicate in the twenty-first century.

Related Resources

  • Lesson Plans
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  • Strategy Guides
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  • Professional Library
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  • Calendar Activities
Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Building Vocabulary: Making Multigenre Glossaries Based on Student Inquiry
Students choose unfamiliar words from their reading and create a multigenre, multimodal glossary of terms.
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Having My Say: A Multigenre Autobiography Project

Students compose a multigenre paper, modeled after the Delany sister's autobiography, Having Our Say, that includes the autobiographical narrative essay as well as an informational nonfiction piece.

Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project

Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.

Grades
9 - 12
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Short Story Fair: Responding to Short Stories in Multiple Media and Genres

In this activity, students read short stories and create presentations in multiple media to share in a Short Story Fair. At the fair, students explore and respond to the displays.

Grades
6 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
Students develop a definition of multigenre texts by exploring multigenre picture books. They brainstorm what it takes to read these texts successfully and discuss strategies needed to comprehend the texts.
Grades
Grades
6 - 12
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Strategy Guide
Teaching With Multiple Modalities
In this Strategy Guide, you'll see how one lesson utilizes tiered texts and multiple modalities in order to meet the learning style needs of students.
Grades
9 - 12
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Professional Library
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Book
Adolescent Literacy and the Teaching of Reading: Lessons for Teachers of Literature
Deborah Appleman dismantles the traditional divide between secondary teachers of literature and teachers of reading and offers a variety of practical ways to teach reading within the context of literature classrooms.
Grades
K - 12
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Calendar Activity
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Literacy-Related Event
Celebrate Digital Learning Day today.

Students reflect on recent learning and the role digital tools and media have played in supporting or enhancing it.