Digital technologies to improve writing

Digital technologies to improve writing

1. Mobile learning tool

   • Podcasts
     • Genre pedagogical approach
       • Focused in the form of the text. In this approach language is a dynamic and open system where genre is used as a starting point
       • Empower students
         • Students identify their weaknesses
       • Students regulate their learning pace
     • Autobiography
       • This digital material summarized great part of the class content.
       • Orientation
       • Re orientation
   • Mobile app
     • Considering the popularity of mobile devices and their easy accesibility, learners can benefict greatly from utilizing the convenience provided by the tool.
     • Grammar review
       • Learners select grammatical categories for which the tool provides a brief description and exercise questions.
     • Writing practice
       • They choose one of the suggested korean sentences and write a corresponding English sentence to be evaluated.

2. Classroom microblogs

   • Short concise works of writing whether for social or academic porpuses and differs from blogs.
   • Inside writing frame
     • Brainstorming graphic organizer
     • Exploring and investigating internet use
     • Synthesis graph
     • Organization
     • Paragraph construction

3. Facebook gaming

   • Facebook is free and available for many users.
   • Mafia wars
     • How the skills they use in gaming are relevant to writing and develop awareness and cultivate those skills.
     • Complex thinking
     • Problem solving
     • Strategizing
     • Investigating
     • Understandong rules and codes
     • Engagement to writing
       • Checklist of what they are looking to achieve
       • Small assignments
       • Thesis statements
       • Peer review discussions
     • Rhetorical and textual skills

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