I found this to be an interesting discussion. As a teacher you do begin to wonder if the whole technology explosion issue is having a negative effect on writers. I found this article both refreshing and inspiring. Of course technology is for a wider audience and totally valid way for children to be seen as publishers from an early age. It's cool that kids can put a slideshow up or a voice thread to send to a grandma living hundreds or thousands of miles away! My own class of 8 year olds do online collaborative writing projects on our class wiki and they absolutely love it. Like the article says maybe lots of those kids would not be writing much at all if it weren't for online collaboration.
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I found this to be an interesting discussion. As a teacher you do begin to wonder if the whole technology explosion issue is having a negative effect on writers. I found this article both refreshing and inspiring. Of course technology is for a wider audience and totally valid way for children to be seen as publishers from an early age. It's cool that kids can put a slideshow up or a voice thread to send to a grandma living hundreds or thousands of miles away! My own class of 8 year olds do online collaborative writing projects on our class wiki and they absolutely love it. Like the article says maybe lots of those kids would not be writing much at all if it weren't for online collaboration.