National Writing Project

Secondary ELA teachers and teacher educators will find this book quite useful. The authors clearly delineate the advantages of implementing digital writing strategies within the secondary classroom, citing both the abstract pedagogical and sociocultural reasons as well as the practical implications of preparing students to use current technology, much of which they already use in extracurricular contexts.

Published in 2010, some of the information and resources in this volume might be a bit show more outdated already, but the framework for implementing a digital writing ecology (a term that the authors explain expertly) remains helpful to digital writing novices as well as veterans. Perhaps most impressive is the authors’ insistence on foregrounding teaching and learning objectives within the context of technology and digital resources. They advocate matching the tool (digital or otherwise) to the task rather than crafting objectives around the available technology.

Whether discussing rationale, strategies for implementation, standards, assessment, or professional development, the authors ground their thinking in sound pedagogy and real world contexts. show less

This book makes me think long and hard about how I approach teaching writing in my classroom. This is a book for those interested in enacting change in their school and in their classroom. It's a book of ideas, suggestions, and research.

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