| Abstrakt: |
New technologies are rapidly expanding the communication opportunities for our students, allowing our students to compose in endless print and digital formats. After realizing that her instruction was not matching students' digital literacy experiences outside of school, a teacher chooses to transform her writing workshop to a designing workshop. This article attempts to specifically describe several lessons supporting students in seeing themselves as designers. Using a workshop model and units of study as frameworks, the teacher approached all lessons from a design lens as students considered die audience, purpose and genre of various digital applications, and the application's templates. These lessons can be easily differentiated for different age levels. The lessons can also be used with various technology applications and can be implemented as stand-alone lessons or in conjunction with one another. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
