One of the biggest lessons we learned as a team of teacher-researchers in Michigan is that the scaffolding and teaching of “digital writing” begins before anyone gets on a computer. In this post, we’d like to share a story about how we, as a team of teacher-researchers, came to understand the importance of building classroom communities that support students as they write together in both digital and physical spaces. Who we are and where we teach We are a team of three urban educators who teach in a suburb of Detroit. Oak Park High School is located just over a…
Author: jrmurray
In an effort to continue building bridges and collaborating efforts between K-12 and higher education, this blog carnival seeks to open conversations about the ways digital writing is taught, encouraged, and facilitated in K-12 classrooms. Stemming from conversations taking place at the 4T Virtual Conference on Digital Writing, in addition to ongoing research conducted through the Michigan Teachers as Researchers Collaborative (MiTRC), we invite short reviews, commentaries, lessons, and examples illustrating the ways digital writing plays a role in K-12 instruction. For the purposes of this blog carnival, we use the term “digital writing” to mean any activities, lessons, and…