New Journalism

Glen Bledsoe, Jeff Schwartz, and I (Paul Allison) will be interviewed by Kevin Hodgson this week (actually a few hours from now) on Teachers Teaching Teachers. (It will be fun to be on the other side of the microphone!) We'll be talking about collaboration and the tools we use to collaborate in the classroom.

Here's how the National Writing Project describes what we'll be talking about on this show.

As educators move forward into the terrain of digital literacy and learning with their students, part of the challenge is balancing the innovation of new technology with the accountability of assessment.

The recently published book Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom explores these balancing acts through case studies of elementary through university-level classrooms where teachers are integrating technology with writing and where the assessment of the digital work and student learning is being explored.

Chapter authors Paul Allison, a high school teacher, technology liaison at the New York City Writing Project, and facilitator of TTT; Glen Bledsoe, an elementary teacher and teacher consultant at the Oregon Writing Project at the University of Oregon; and Jeff Schwartz, high school teacher and member of the Bread Loaf Teachers Network, will share examples of their classroom practices to prompt a discussion about the collaborative nature of writing when using technology in the classroom.