Use digital tools to analyze your writing, identify mechanical issues, and help you create a polished final draft.
Polish With Precision: Step 4 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
Grade Level: 6-8
Put the Pieces Together: Completing the Puzzle With Computational Thinking
Begin to develop an understanding of computational thinking and why we should be teaching it to every student.
Revise With Resolve: Step 3 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
Use technology to efficiently and effectively improve the content, organization, and coherence of your writing.
Draft With Direction: Step 2 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
Explore ways to integrate technology as you transition from the planning stage to writing your first draft.
Leverage Virtual Field Trips to Engage Students in Authentic Learning Experiences
Explore how to leverage virtual field trips to engage students in authentic learning experiences.
Reimagine the Writing Process
Consider how the integration of technology can expand how you define the process and product of writing in your classroom.
Share Your Learning With Others: Step 7 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process
Learn how to help students prepare and share the product of their learning as part of the ANSWERS inquiry process.
Pre-Write With Purpose: Step 1 in Powering Up and Enhancing the Writing Process With Technology
Explore ways to integrate technology into four pre-writing tasks: clarifying your writing task, generating preliminary ideas, gathering ideas and content, and organizing and planning.
Review, Reflect, and Revise: Step 6 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process
Learn how to help students review, reflect, and revise both the process and product of their inquiry learning during the ANSWERS inquiry process.
Make Project-Based Learning Truly Authentic With Public Products
Examine the importance and explore different types of public products that can be used in project-based learning.
Mash It Up With Multimedia
Provide students with expanded creative opportunities by allowing them to mix together video, audio, images, writing, and animation on a multimedia canvas.
Support Student Reflection, Critique, and Revision in Project-Based Learning
Let’s go deeper into the key elements of project-based learning and explore strategies to support student reflection, critique, and revision.
Elaborate and Express Your Learning: Step 5 of the Searching for ANSWERS Inquiry Process
Learn how to help students analyze, synthesize, interpret, and communicate the results of their inquiry during the fifth step in the ANSWERS inquiry process.
Enter the Magical World of Animation
Empower students with strategies and tools to create animations for digital storytelling, classroom communication, and personal reflections on the learning process.
Avoid Misleading Messages
To sift through the vast quantities of misleading information presented to us each day, we need to develop the skills that will inform us how to avoid being misled.