Rewriting the Book: New literacy practices and their implications for teaching and evaluating writing

• Autores: Kristina Cordero
• Localización: Development of writing skills in children in diverse cultural contexts: contributions to teaching and learning / coord. por Alina Galvao Spinillo, Carmen Sotomayor, 2023, ISBN 9783031292859, págs. 279-298
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When the school day ends, young people around the world today are communicating. Through activities that are dialogic, interactive, multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous, they consume, produce, and exchange information and experiences with peers, writing text-based messages which may include audio and video clips, original and retouched pictures, and other modes of expression. These novel practices, which engage the four language skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking in new ways, are redefining how we communicate and offer insights for adapting writing instruction for the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century, in which the “4 Cs” of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity have been cited as pivotal (AT21CS. What are 21st-century skills? Retrieved 10 April, 2022, from http://atc21s.org/index.php/about/what-are-21st-century-skills/, 2012). Yet, these new technology tools and literacy practices have yet to be fully understood and embraced in the school context. How might they serve as a roadmap for rethinking writing instruction and evaluation? For repositioning the role of the teacher? On the other hand, what hasn’t changed? What traditional skills and practices remain essential? This chapter will explore new paradigms in writing in light of past research and best practices and propose new ways to prepare students to be active, engaged communicators for a future that remains to be written.