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We are teachers writing about using writing assistance tools with our students.
What do our students need? What can these tools do?
What do our students need? What can these tools do?
Once we meet our students, do we see a niche for these tools?
Writing Project
Sep 8, 2020
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The Note Card System and Writing Assistive Technology
The Note Card System and Writing Assistive Technology
Do you remember when teachers assigned research projects that led students step-by-step through the research process, requiring note cards…
Ms Taiesha Fowler
Aug 13, 2021
WAT (writing assistance tools) is Your Story
WAT (writing assistance tools) is Your Story
The Student Writing Experience
Jacqueline Acosta
Aug 4, 2021
The Importance of Teaching Students to Adopt Writing Assistive Technology
The Importance of Teaching Students to Adopt Writing Assistive Tech...
by Taiesha Fowler
Ms Taiesha Fowler
Jul 20, 2021
Managing the Writing Process in an Online Class
Managing the Writing Process in an Online Class
Managing the writing process challenges every in-person writing teacher. Many of us still have students learning online. The writing issues…
Ms Taiesha Fowler
Jul 6, 2021
What my students said: May 25, 2021
What my students said: May 25, 2021
Spending the first three quarters of this year exploring Writing Assistance tools allowed me to think deeply about feedback and what kind…
Denise Mumm
Jun 18, 2021
Final Thoughts on WATs for Now
Final Thoughts on WATs for Now
I am writing this a few days after the last day of the close of the regular school year of 2020/2021. I am teaching the English portion of…
Becky Schwartz
Jun 18, 2021
Building Habits: How Might Writing Assistance Technologies Help Prepare Students for Postsecondary…
Building Habits: How Might Writing Assistance Technologies Help Pre...
In my initial post for our Ahead of the Code Blog, I argued that “Writing tools have a place [in the classroom] — beside a teacher, not in…
Janet Neyer
Jun 16, 2021
Balance in all things writing
Balance in all things writing
Reflections: May 28, 2021
Denise Mumm
Jun 11, 2021
What do we learn when we put our own writing through a writing assistance tool?
The Moment You’re Told Santa Isn’t Real.
The Moment You’re Told Santa Isn’t Real.
Perhaps the drawback of a moment pressed for time had me searching for how to get started? I have worked with a few high profile online…
Jacqueline Acosta
Aug 29, 2020
For the Love of Feedback
Noé J. Almendáriz
Major and Minor Characters of the Writing Story
Amanda Cornwell
Moving beyond grammar
Amy Hoying
Using Google Docs within Google Classroom
Ms Taiesha Fowler
From Mavis to Writable: The Perils and Promises of Writing Assistance Technology
Andy Schoenborn
Swiping Write
Bernadette Wayne
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