Chapter 14 Unleashing Potential with Emerging Technologies

Sara B. Kajder writes in Adolescent Literacy I like these statements, I have written below,
p. "I firmly believe that valuing and seeing the ways in which kids are engaging with new technologies outside of school can teach us a great deal about possibilities in engaging them as readers and writers in our classrooms. For some of us, this might be a new concept; for me, it's been critical to my own professional growth and to my thinking during my recent work in local schools."
Ms. Kajder explains in that statement the recent advances in technologies blogs, websites, and my space, and facebook has created a larger community of students and people posting ideas and new ways of writing their ideas.
Reading and Writing Spaces Kids are Engaging in outside of School
1. weblogs
2. fanfiction
3. wikis
4. video games
5. digital video/digital storytelling
6. podcasts
7. MMORPGS (Massive multiplayer online role playing games)
8. social bookmarks
Students today a lot more advance in technology and have the advantage like no generation their create classroom discussion outside the classroom and discuss in the classroom once it is posted.
Class Blog
"My job as scribe is to share where we are but make sure that I do so with one eye on where we've been and one on where we're going" Some posts are written, but many others include images and video, opening up what counts as valued communication in the classroom and broadening the possibilities for how voices can contribute and be present.
The students have an open line communication with the teacher at all times.
Podcasting
"Through the use of iPod paired with an iTalk microphone set in the center of each circle, the relevance of students' work has been ratcheted up, as the audience is no longer just the members of the circle or the teacher in the moment she is able to grab while circulating
Asking the questions
1. What questions were left unresolved?
2. Which moments of the discussion were the most compelling?
3. What parts of the discussion might help convince a peer to read the text under discussion?
4. Where did the discussion fall apart or fail?
5. What are the key ideas emerging in your conversation about this text?
Looking more deeply
"in creating audio content, students are scriptwriting, writing questions to stimulate discussion(especially if the recording is capturing a live discussion that might involve participants outside the classroom),selecting appropriate venues for publishing their work, and responding to comments submitted by listeners. Here, learners evaluate what to say, consider options, and make choices. Learning rests on these risks."
To paraphrase the rest Students have the chance to record each others oral history these iPod and iTalk and have them edit and post them on their weblogs. It provides students with more of an "agency" or choice to the audience and learning engagement.