Common Core Reading and Writing with Mobile Devices

Common Core Reading and Writing with Mobile Devices Laurie Stowell [email protected] Cal State San Marcos San Marcos Writing Project: http://www.csusm.edu/education/outreach/smwp.html

1. Introduction and background TPaCK model: Technological, pedagogical and content knowledge TPACK in 2 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FagVSQlZELY SARMR model: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and redefinition SAMR model in 120 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=us0w823KY0g&list=PL5BFC880170A0E8EA New literacies: The new literacies of the Internet and other ICTs include the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary to successfully use and adapt to the rapidly changing information and communication technologies and contexts that continuously emerge in our world and influence all areas of our personal and professional lives. These new literacies allow us to use the Internet and other ICTs to identify important questions, locate information, critically evaluate the usefulness of that information, synthesize information to answer those questions, and then communicate the answers to others. New technologies require new literacies to exploit their potential and these new literacies change regularly as technology opens new communication and information. These include technologies such as gaming software (Gee, 2003), video technologies (O’Brien, 2001), technologies that establish communities on the Internet (Chandler- Olcott & Mahar, 2003), search engines (Jansen, Spink, & Saracevic, 2000), webpages, and many more yet to emerge. 2. Socrative and Poll anywhere: check for background knowledge, provide anticipation, set goals, monitor for understanding or assess. 3. Reading * Annotating Apps: Good notes Side by side Notability Notetaking: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/note-taking-with-ipads-beth-holland? utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-notetaking-apps * Six word memoirs: http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com * Assessment (noting and recording) Evernote * Digital Picture book apps What makes a quality electronic text:  Writing: Great digital pic books and book apps like their print counterparts start with quality writing. The most successful picture book apps keep the story front and center.  Images: Readers use text and image to garner meaning so quality of images is as important as quality of the words used.  Narration: Some books allow users to select from a choice of narrators., including the author, character voices, record their own narration and some are available in more than one language.  Interactive functions: Quality digital puts the reader in charge and makes use of multiple modes including read along, read to self, game playing and activity modes. Supportive digital picture books cue the reader with signals that support interaction. Cues enable the reader to fully utilize all animations and interactions.  Withstands repeated use: Quality picture books provide a different reading experience each time.  Adds to or extends the original book. For middle and high school readers: Inanimatalice.com Readwritethink Trading Cards app (free)

4. Writing • Digital essay: Hyperlinks in google docs: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/common-core-in-action- narrative-writing-heather-wolpert-gawron • Scavenger hunt Book Creator (free and $1.99) • Publishing student writing: see list in packet • Feedback: Figment: figment.com • Six word memoirs: http://www.sixwordmemoirs.com

5. iMovie: Book Trailers ($4.99)

6. Speaking and listening: Explaining to others: Educreations Mad Lips (free) Resources: 1. San Marcos Writing Project: http://www.csusm.edu/education/outreach/smwp.html 2. Upstanders, not bystanders: http://www.californiawritingproject.org/upstanders-bystanders.html 3. NCTE’s definition of 21st century literacies: http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/21stcentdefinition 4. IRA’s position statement on New Literacies: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=us0w823KY0g&list=PL5BFC880170A0E8EA 5. Writing, technology and teens: http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/prof/community/PIP_Writing_Report _FINAL.pdf 6. Findings of the Pew Internet and American Life project and the National Commission on Writing: http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/writing- technology-teens-the-findings-of-the-pew-internet-project-and-the-national- commission-on-writing?type=presentation Make writing public: Places to publish student writing

1. Kid Lit: Art and writing from kids K-12: http://mgfx.com/kidlit/ 2. Scholastic: Kids are authors: www.scholastic.com/kidsareauthors 3. Writing with writers: Students work with authors, editors and illustrators in workshops: http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/ 4. Publishing students: Created by a teacher, has tips and lots of links: http://www.publishingstudents.com/ 5. Web English Teacher: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/publish.html. A site that has links to places that publish student (Of all ages) writing. 6. LearnEnglish Kids: A British based website provides an interactive tool for creating stories: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/make-your-own/story-maker 7. Launch Pad: http://www.launchpadmag.com 8. Young Author’s Workshop: http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/Publish.html A list of links to places to publish 9. The kids’ storytelling club: http://www.storycraft.com 10. KidsCom: http://www.kidscom.com/create/write/write.html Publishes on line 11. Kid Authors: http://www.kidauthors.com/ 12. Kidscribe: A bilingual site for kid authors: http://brightinvisiblegreen.com/kidscribe/ 13. Creative Writing for Kids: http://www.creativewriting4kids.com/ 14. Young Poets: Publishes children’s poetry: http://www.loriswebs.com/youngpoets/ 15. Cyberkids: http://www.cyberkids.com/he/html/submit.html 16. The mysteries of Harris Burdick: publish on Chris Van Allsburgs site and read students’ stories: http://www.hmhbooks.com/features/harrisburdick/readers_stories.html 17. Write reviews of books on Amazon: www.amazon.com 18. Nonfiction: My hero project: http://www.myhero.com/go/home.asp 19. Writing Fix: Publishes student writing from lessons they provide: http://www.writingfix.com Middle and high school students 20. Figment: http://www.myhero.com/go/home.asp 21. Kid Pub: http://www.kidpub.com 22. Candlelight stories: http://www.candlelightstories.com 23. Cyberteens: http://www.cyberteens.com 24. Frodo’s Notebook: http://frodosnotebook.com 25. Space: Middle school students share their work: http://fablogs.org/space/ 26. This I believe: Series from NPR, now publishes essays online: http://thisibelieve.org 27. Flipsnack: http://www.flipsnack.com Magazines that publish student writing: 1. Highlights for children: http://www.highlights.com 2. Highlights online: http://www.highlights.com (go to “Share it”) 3. Stone Soup: http://www.stonesoup.com 4. Young Writer: The magazine for children with something to say http://www.mystworld.com/youngwriter/ 5. Merlyn’s Pen: http://www.merlynspen.org/ This is a magazine that publishes pre-teens and teen’s writing. 6. Teen Ink: Print and online: http://www.teenink.com ipad scavenger hunt

Find and take a photo of each of the following. You may not use previously taken photos or download photos from the web. You may work together, but you must each try to get as many photos as you can individually. You are competing against each other and will have individual scores. You all must collect the first 6 (don’t come back without them!) If no one else has your answer you receive an additional 2 points for that item. Prizes for the most points. We will be using these photos for various lessons during the course.

☐ 1. Something from the natural world (1 point) ☐ 2. A character trait (3 points) ☐ 3. Person (over the age of 18 -preferably not from the cohort!)1 (1) ☐ 4. Conflict or action (1 point) ☐ 5. A setting related to education (1 point) ☐ 6. A setting that does not look like school (1 point) ☐ 7. An artifact of at least one of the four content areas (ELA, Math, SS, Science) (2 points) ☐ 8. An artifact of education outside of the one of the four content areas (2 points) ☐ 9. Learning (10 pts.)* ☐ 10. Change (10 pts.)* ☐ 11. A metaphor or simile (10 pts.)* ☐ 12. Engagement (10 pts.)* ☐ 13. Literacy (10 pts.)* ☐ 14. A beautiful sound (10 pts.)* ☐ 15. Thinking (10 pts.)* ☐ 16. 3 photos in a series: Before, during and after (10 pts.)* ☐ 17. Visual thinking (or non alphabetic) (10 pts.)* ☐ 18. An act of kindness (10 pts.)* ☐ 19. An unusual perspective (10 pts.)* ☐ 20. Your reflection captured in an unexpected place (10 pts.)* ☐ 21. Something that will be in history texts 100 years from now (10 pts.)* ☐ 22. An unusual detail. (10 pts.)* ☐ 23. A cultural artifact (10 pts.)* ☐ 24. Math problem (can be more than 1 photo) (10 pts.)* ☐ 25. Something symmetrical (10 points)*

1 Do not take photos of students or anyone under the age of 18 on this scavenger hunt. ☐ 26. Something wet other than water (10 pts.)* ☐ 27. Something that dissolves (10 pts.)* ☐ 28. Something that reflects (10 pts.)* ☐ 29. Something that magnifies sound (10 pts.)* ☐ 30. Something that distorts objects (10 pts.)* ☐ 31. Something that changes shape (10 pts.)* ☐ 32. Something a scientist needs (10 pts.)* ☐ 33. Something a mathematician needs (10 pts.)* ☐ 34. Something an historian needs (10 pts.)* ☐ 35 Something a reader or writer needs (10 pts.)* ☐ 36. Something wicked (10 pts.)* ☐ 37. Something tricky (10 pts.)* ☐ 38. Something annoying (10 points)* (no photos of people in the cohort!) ☐ 39. Evidence of civilization (10 pts.)* ☐ 40. Evidence of a scientific principle (10 pts.)* ☐ 41. Something that evaporates (10 pts.)* ☐ 42. Letter of the English alphabet that you discovered, did not create (10 pts.)* ☐ 43. 5 photos of the same thing from different perspectives (10 pts.)* ☐ 44. Something a middle school student would value (5 pts)

*Cohort will vote on best example of these and receive additional points: 1st place: additional 30 points 2nd place: additional 20 points 3rd place: additional 10 points Determining the Credibility of Online Sources:

When using online sources for formal research, you must determine credibility in order to validate the reliability of your own research. Keep in mind: Articles from peer reviewed online journals like those found in JSTOR, EBSCO Host, and other databases include all citation information and can easily be found credible. Sites like Wikipedia, blogs, and social media sites are open forums for non-experts and while they may be great brainstorming tools, they are not credible sources for formal research. With so many sites in the spectrum between Wikipedia and JSTOR, it can be difficult to determine credibility, so here is a checklist to go through when making an evaluation:

 What is your topic? o You should always look for sources appropriate to your topic. For example, if you are researching heart disease, you should look at sites run by The American Heart Association and not a side note blog post from Huffington Post.  What is the URL? o Always be sure to record the entire URL. You will need this information and more to cite properly. Be sure you are aware of the root site of the page you found.  Is the extension appropriate to the content? o .gov and .mil are government run sites, .edu means it is an education site, and .com/.org/.co can be purchased online. This does not mean that .com/.org/.co are not reliable, but you should make note of the extension for overall reliability testing.  Who is the author? o You should use sites that have a stated author. Sometimes the author’s name will be on the article or page, and sometimes you will have to dig a little deeper to an “about the author” page or a link on the main site.  Is there contact information for the author? o Credible authors will have some type of contact information. It may be in the form of an email, phone number, address, or online submission form.  What are the author’s credentials? o Look for authors who hold degrees, experience, titles, or memberships to recognizable professional groups relating to the topic.  Does the site appear to be professional? o Look for sites that are professional, clean, and organized. For most research, personal blogs are not a reliable source.  Are there typos and other errors? o Grammar, spelling, and other errors are a hint that the information has not been reviewed carefully and may be suspect.  What is the purpose of the site? o Are they trying to persuade? educate? preach? other?

 Is there bias? If so, what is it? o For example, if you take medical information from a cigarette company or sports information from a particular college, understand the bias. Bias does not mean you can’t use the page; you just have to be aware and use the information accordingly.  Is this a primary or secondary source? o The closer to the primary source a page is, the more reliable the information.  Are there citations or a bibliography? o These will help you determine the legitimacy of secondary sources. Ask yourself if the bibliography shows quality research material.  Is there a date for the publication/revision of the page? o You will need this information to cite properly. It is also important to know that your information is current. You don’t want to research current educational trends and use high school drop out rates from 1990.  Does the information seem in depth and comprehensive? o You want to look for sources dedicated to the information you are looking for, not a source, which briefly touches on your topic.

 Overall Evaluation: o Based on this list, do you find this source to be credible? Be sure that you are able to justify your evaluation with evidence.

Citing an online source:

Please refer to the Owl at Purdue for information on citing electronic sources in MLA or APA format: Owl.English.Purdue.edu California Common Core Standards and Digital Writing Alignment Laurie Stowell Cal State San Marcos [email protected] Writing: Anchor Standard: 6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

Grade Writing objective Technology Notes Level(s) 2-12 Write a book review Create a book trailer in Create rubrics, evaluate movie and book reviews on iMovie line. Apply criteria to their book trailers. Writing narrative Fan Fiction websites This is especially good for English learners – they know the stories and are basically writing extensions. Publish for a variety of Online communities, Fan Many online places to publish: see attached list audiences Fiction sites, online Flipsnack – original pieces published just to view contests. Flipsnack.com Publish a piece of writing Figment.com and receive feedback Provide feedback

Anchor Standard: 8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism.

Grade Writing Technology Notes Level(s) objective Determine Websites See Carrie Haynes session at SD CUE! credibility of Go to websites like sources Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Or CNN ireport: http://ireport.cnn.com Assess cnn.com Visit newspaper, TV, radio, online blogs credibility and foxnews.com (like Huffpost) news sources and accuracy of cbsnews.com compare what is reported and how, i.e. news sources nbcnews.com point of view. abcnews..go.com Students can also analyze visual msn.com information. npr.org/sections/news/ pbs.org/newshour/ nytimes.com huffingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com

Reading: Anchor Standard: 7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Grade Reading Technolo Notes Level( objective gy s) Evaluate book View Generate rubrics/criteria, evaluate movie and book reviews 2-12 and movie Amazon on line. Many book reviews on Amazon include video book trailers/revie or Barnes trailers ws and Noble The fault in our stars by John Green: reviews. http://www.amazon.com/The-Fault-Stars- Add a JohnGreen/dp/0525478817/ref=sr_1_1? review of ie=UTF8&qid=1381157049&sr=8- their own. 1&keywords=the+fault+in+our+stars Also view Catching Fire movie Trailer: game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keT5CRhhy84 apps Compare book and movie “Hunger Games” Everything wrong with Hunger Games in 3 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn0LXWaPxnQ Middle school Hunger Games book review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVi6c07343k The chronicles of Harris Burdick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3kpYep7EQw

K-5 Evaluate Picture Evaluate picture book apps: The world of ants, Press here, picture book book apps Where do balloons go, Ocean Journey, Hiding Hannah, The apps artifacts, A tale off the top of my head, The fantastic flying Compare/cont books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, Freight Train rast K-5 Voice Create sound effects for a read aloud Thread, Educreati ons Monitor for Good Teach annotating, close reading. understandin notes app g, comprehensio n: annotate Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standard: 2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

Grade objective Technology Notes Level(s) Present informative Keynote, Slide shark, Video students’ presentations and 2-12 writing powerpoint, prezi then debrief them when they finish. Students record their voice presenting and post K-12 Demonstrate Educreation app Narrate thinking for reading a piece of understanding text – a think aloud. Narrate thinking for a piece of writing and where want feedback Provide oral feedback for a piece of writing

Anchor Standard: 5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

Grade Speaking technology Notes level /listening objective K-12 Explain thinking Educreations app Educreations shows student (in math or work and records students’ science) or voice process (in writing or reading) as they write on whiteboard and record their explanation Evaluate digital http://www.inanimatealice.com Students can discuss 5-9 media and visual interpretations of story and displays of effectiveness of media information