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CONNECT Technology: Enhancing the Reading and Writing Process Gwenn Eldridge | Fall 2016

Discover the power of CONNECT in improving reading and writing skills. This flexible and customizable platform promotes active reading and writing, while also allowing instructors to create and customize assignments. Supported by sound theory and research, CONNECT enhances literacy objectives and encourages critical thinking.

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CONNECT Technology: Enhancing the Reading and Writing Process Gwenn Eldridge | Fall 2016

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  1. CONNECT Technology: Enhancing the Reading and Writing Process Gwenn Eldridge | Fall 2016

  2. Technology and pedagogy • CONNECT • Power of Process • LearnSmart Achieve

  3. Why we chose CONNECT • Flexibility and customizable • Based in sound theory • Learn Smart Achieve • Reading & writing strategies • Grammar review • Adaptive • Power of Process • Promotes active reading and writing • Ability to create and customize assignments

  4. Theory • Concepts connect with literacy and writing objectives • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy • Cognitive process dimension • Knowledge dimension • Sample of scholars • Duke & Pearson • Pressley • Hyona & Lorch • Willingham & Price • Francis & Simpson • Eeds & Chockrum • CWPA, NCTE, NWP • Elbow • Ong

  5. Theory • Identify the author’s audience • Literacy objective: Reading comprehension • Writing objective: Knowledge of rhetorical situations; Rhetorical flexibility; Discipline-specific knowledge • Lower order thinking skill • Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy category: • Cognitive process dimension: Understanding • Knowledge dimension: Conceptual • Inquiry prompt: Who does the author want to read this text? • Students respond within a text box.

  6. Scaffolding Comp 1 with Power of Process • Comp 1 assignment: Summary Response Essay • “Plight of the Little Emperors” • Assignment introduced in support course • Power of Process used to introduce active reading/writing strategies

  7. Scaffolding Comp 1 with Power of Process Before and during reading strategies

  8. Scaffolding Comp 1 with Power of Process • Using project report for essay planning • Can be printed or saved • Used for outline for the paper in Comp 1 • Students see connection between reading and writing process

  9. Grading Power of Process • Instructor can comment on each section of the assignment • Can provide general comment at the end of the assignment • Grade syncs with LMS

  10. Skills Review with LearnSmart Achieve • Objective and adaptive • Reading/writing as complementary processes • Integrated reading/writing • Reading strategies • Writing purposes • Argument • Documentation • Grammar and mechanics in context of reading/writing

  11. What students say about CONNECT • See work in a new way • See connection between reading & writing • Remember some grammar concepts • Learn new skills • Like that technology is portable • Creates validity for support course • Like the use in class and at home

  12. Questions? Gwenn Eldridge • geldridge6@ivytech.edu • 765-252-5515

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