EDUC 30 Chapter Notes - Chapter TTNW 1: Email, Colin Lankshear, Microcomputer
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Challenges for writing teachers: evolving technologies and standardized assessment. Evolution of computers and our (related) understandings of writing: the changes in this entity we call writing have, since the early 1980s, presented teachers with both challenges and opportunities. Introduction of computers to the classroom: w(cid:396)iti(cid:374)g tea(cid:272)he(cid:396)"s fi(cid:396)st se(cid:396)ious (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith e(cid:373)e(cid:396)gi(cid:374)g te(cid:272)hnologies dates from the early 1980s introduction of the microcomputer, with the apple ii and then the ibm pc, everyday writers who could afford the. In these labs, keyboarding, as an aspect of computer literacy, was taught by the teachers who formerly had taught typing or business communication. Writing for classmates is a first step toward making writing a collaborative enterprise. It (cid:271)(cid:396)i(cid:374)gs ou(cid:396) stude(cid:374)ts" (cid:448)oi(cid:272)es to the (cid:396)est of the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld. (cid:863) (newman, 1989: but this writing that rickard referred to was not quite the same as page-based, classroom writing.
