Understanding and Creating Digital Texts: An Activity-Based Approach [Paperback]

This book promotes authentic reading and writing opportunities through use of digital toolse.g., blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, and forum discussionsthat can be easily adapted for any secondary and college classroom activity. The text provides excellent links among the theoretical reasons underpinning technologys use in the classroom, research-based supports of technologys coursework relevance, and the practical implications for adopting technologymainly online applications and programsinto individual lessons and throughout units. New educators or those leery of entering the digital education maelstrom will find helpful suggestions and models to aid them through the transition. Educators who consider themselves digital natives will find refreshing new perspectives and perhaps even new digital tools to enrich their teaching. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Faculty, professionals, and practitioners.An important book! Educators will find Understanding and Creating Digital Texts a valuable tool: The authors provide extensive explanations of digital activities, which expand the learning environment through the use of a variety of digital tools. In using these activities, students increase their ability to navigate the internet as they develop real world reading and writing skills.Understanding and Creating Digital Texts helps educators intentionally connect digital reading and writing tools with real-world literacy practices. It lays out both the whys and hows of designing inquiry-based learning spaces that encourage students to use digital tools and purposeful literacy practices to collaboratively weave their own perspectives and identities into co-constructed understandings of texts created by others. Each chapter also links suggested activities to relevant research, Common Core State Standards, digital tool sets, assessment ideas, and teachers stories of how digital literacy practices play out in real classrooms.This is a valuable resourcelÃ)