We have all used the traditional pen and paper to write, but have we? Ask many of your students and you will find that the pen and paper has gone with the wind, or can I say the computer. Computers and technology are revolutionizing how our students are putting information together and it is mapping their brains in a way that makes sense to them but may not make sense to us. In this article the author points out three distinct phases of writing 1.)Writing 1.0 2.)Writing 2.0) and 3.)Writing 3.0 - the author contends that students are now in the writing 3.0 stage, this is the stage that they use other tools to help organize their thoughts into cohesive patterns, and they do this with an IPad. Check it out.
-Mr. Brenchley
-Mr. Brenchley