Using Technology to Support Writing as a Complex Activity Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D. San Antonio, Texas International Reading Association
May 26, 2015
Using Technology to Support Writing as a
Complex Activity
Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D.
San Antonio, Texas International Reading Association
Using Technology to Support Writing as a
Complex ActivityThomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D.
San Antonio, Texas International
Reading Association
Using Technology to Support Writing as a Complex Activity within the Disciplines
• In this session, participants will explore two aspects of working in digital environments: How to work with digital sources to inform their writing and How to bring together digital images and composing processes, as means for increasing language learning. Participants will learn how to use online tools their students can employ to draw or reuse images found on the Internet in service of writing as a means of learning. Examples of digital stories that combine images and words will be provided, and participants with computers or smartphones will have the opportunity to try some of the tools. By linking the parts of the brain that process images with those parts that process language, written work improves and so does student learning.
Six Shifts
• Increase Reading of Informational Text
• Knowledge in the Disciplines
• Staircase of Complexity
• Text-based Answers
• Increase Writing from Sources
• Academic Vocabulary Source: EngageNY
Cognitive Flexibility Theory
• The domain of writing is ill-defined encompassing
• topical knowledge, • procedural knowledge, and• conditional knowledge.
• (Spiro, 2004; Spiro, Coulson, Feltovich, & Anderson, 2004; Spiro, Feltovich, & Coulson, 1996)
Communication Model Approach
(e.g., Kinneavy, 1971).
Shared Knowledge and Cognitive Processes Model
• Content Knowledge
• Metaknowledge• Language
Features• Procedural
knowledge• (Fitzgerald & Shanahan,
2000)
Source: S-Photos
Common Substrata of Processes
New Literacies
• Speed• Deictic • Multiplicity of
tools and dispositions
• Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack (2004)
Digital Texts
Source: AZAdam on Flickr
Choosing Resources
• Evaluating resources
• Type of resource (genre or mode)
• Readability • Working with
Multiple Sources
• (Wolsey, Lapp, & Fisher, in press)
Source: zapatopi.net
Digital Reading Earns an F
Source: www.clickrmedia.com/
Watch
(Nielsen Norman Group, 2000)
Close Reading
• “Close reading is characterized by the use of evidence from the text to support analysis, conclusions, or views of texts” (Wolsey, Grisham, & Hiebert, 2012, p. 2)
• Slow Reading (Newkirk, 2012)
Transforming Writing with Digital Images
Impromptu Folder
Impromptu Folder
Write Me a Picture
Draw Me a Story
Images and Words Together
InfoGraphics
Write Me A Picture
Michael P. Garafalo
Haiku Marching Cat Footprints
Mariachi
Draw Me A Story
Artpad
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
The school photography project
Through The Lens
Student-Created Images
• Drawing – SketchUp– Artpad
• Photography– Pixlr – PowerPoint and the digital camera
Words Arranged Visually
http://visual.ly/coffee-flavour-wheel
Infographics
• Data meets graphics meets words
• http://visual.ly/
Images to Inspire Words
Images to Inspire Words
Digital Storytelling
• Animoto
• Voicethread
• Example Digital Story in Voicethread
CAST Image Collector
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/tools/imagecollector.cfm
Composing MultiModal Text
• How do words function to “anchor” and give an interpretation of an image?
• How do words function to “relay” or contribute to the meaning of an image?
• Where will the image be placed in relation to the words and why?
• How much of the frame-space will the image occupy compared to the words?
• Is the focal point of the text on the image or on its words and why? (Choo, 2010, p. 172)
Resources
Choo, S. S. (2010). Writing through visual acts of reading: Incorporating visual aesthetics in integrated writing and reading tasks. High School Journal, 93(4), 166-176
• More about Writing and Images: • http://literacybeat.com/2012/05/17/dr
aw-me-a-story/• http://delicious.com/tdwolsey
(keywords: graphics, visualization,
Contact and QR Code
Thomas DeVere Wolsey, Ed.D.MSED Literacy Programs [email protected]