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Authentic Voice in a Digital Age

Discover how to tap into student interests and foster a sense of voice and empowerment through writing and technology. This session explores the use of mentor texts, focused talking, media literacy, storyboarding, and audience engagement. Suitable for elementary, middle, secondary, and post-secondary educators and administrators.

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Authentic Voice in a Digital Age

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  1. Authentic Voice in a Digital Age Margit Boyesen Rob Meza-Ehlert

  2. Reflect and Write • What is something in your curriculum or standards that you… • would like students to connect with? • want students to delve into more deeply? • have noticed students are interested in but you haven’t had time to develop into a unit?

  3. Knowing OUR Audience • How many are elementary, middle, secondary, post-secondary? • Teachers…Administrators? • Tech: novice, proficient, expert? • How many were in session one with Christina and Aja: Raised By?

  4. Our Context

  5. Principle #1: Writing is Central • Students develop “voice” through writing • Media is a tool, not a replacement for writing

  6. Principle #2: Good Texts Make Good Mentors • act as a catalyst to help students look inward: connect with themselves, especially areas that often go unexplored in typical academic work • provide a framework for students who need more scaffolding

  7. Mentor Text“Raised by Women” • Kelly Norman Ellis • Powerful • Provocative • Inspirational

  8. Writing Directions: “Copy Change” • based on the patterns provided in the mentor text: • write about the important people who influenced your upbringing • write about who “raised” you as an educator • try to write from perspective of a literary character or historical figure from your curriculum

  9. Principle #3: Focused Talking Aids Writing • Pair-Share or Small Group • Share your writing with one another • What was this writing process like for you?

  10. Student Samples: A First Look • different levels of depth and skill • influence of mentor text is very clear • highly personalized: culture, race, identity

  11. Principle #4: Infuse Skills Into Technology • basic media literacy • problem solving • symbolism: matching image to text

  12. Storyboarding: Encouraging Thoughtful Planning • thinking through the picture selection • ordering skills • many parallels to pre-writing in the writing process

  13. Principle #5: Audience is Everything • authentic • purposeful • formative and summative feedback

  14. Student Samples:From Writing to Movie • personal: the comforting and the uncomfortable • shift to native tongue • power of images • performance: voice

  15. Closing Prompt • Reflect on your opening journal • How could this approach be adapted to fit with your curriculum and standards? • What adjustments would you make in light of your unique teaching style? • What would your students need in order to be successful?

  16. We’re Open for Questions

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