Paul+Oh

[|Paul Oh] - Paul Oh is a Senior Program Associate for the National Writing Project and coordinator of the technology liaison program.

His books include - > 2012 > 2011 > 2008 > 2008 > 2008 > // The Voice //, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2006 > // The Voice //, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2005
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 * ** [|A Technology Toolkit That Is Really an Educational Toolkit] **
 * ** [|NWP Cyberspace Project Connects Youth Voices] **
 * ** [|Tech Liaisons Discover a Whole New World—and Themselves—Through Technology Matters] **

His Twitter can be found [|here] and his blog [|here].

Chat from the Google hangout on July 8, 2013

 Ira Socol 10:31 AM We'll get you to start Paul...

 me 10:34 AM Hi, Paul! Great to be here with you today!

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 me 10:39 AM Giving kids choice in their writing--meaningful choice-has worked for me many, many times.

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 me 10:42 AM Writing as making, making as writing...love that thought! I make meaning when I write...I play when I write...I think when I write...I reflect when I write...

 Dana Rivera 10:43 AM My most reluctant writers really perked up when they knew they were creating authentic pieces that would be published to outside audiences. The level of engagement and willingness to revise their writing increased tenfold.

 me 10:43 AM authentic audiences are really motivating for mine as well. diy.org as a maker movement

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 10:46 AM Part of iterative process is making visible to kids we try and fail and try again....in many, many areas, not just writing. (from Paul) youthvoices.net is a youth publishing space. One of the developers is a teacher.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mary Dreyer 10:47 AM Hey, kids, let's do a play!-- oral to written language possibly including video, reading fluency, working on narratives, storifying SOL concepts and vocab...

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ira Socol 10:48 AM Mary, we were just discussing, "let's do a play" as even a one-day cross curricular process

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dana Rivera 10:48 AM I agree with Paula. So many of our students know that they must practice repeatedly in drama, music, sports, etc. But when it comes to writing, they seem to think that they should be able to produce a publishable piece in one draft. It is a delicate process to get them to realize that writing a piece is a process that you have to work through over and over before it reaches a stage where it is finished.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 10:50 AM Starting with choice and interest, we can guide kids towards deeper understanding of issues. Frameworks within Youth Voices are there. Paul Allison is the teacher who started it many years ago. (Those are notes from what Paul has shared.)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mary Dreyer 10:50 AM Let's talk! I have done this with kids who have low literacy skills but are full of stories and they were VERY motivated and learned a lot of content, language elaboration, were willing to read and reread, revise, etc all collaboratively. Big fun for me, too!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ira Socol 10:50 AM If you haven't seen "Dance your PhD" google that

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dana Rivera 10:51 AM Madeleine Madeleine -- that sixth grader will probably be one of yours in three years! Hope so.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 10:53 AM Great question--what constitutes writing, or what constitutes composition? Teachers certainly don't agree, and some don't understand how digital writing is changing traditional definitions.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mary Dreyer 10:55 AM Tech is wonderful, but I think actual physical writing, pencil topaper, spelling skills, etc, are always important. We are smarter than computers and if we let them do too much, or allow aour students to lose these skills, they will be beholden to the technology.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 10:55 AM Form is as important as the structure of the writing. That's a crucial understanding of digital writing. What does writing look like today?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Madeline Michel 10:58 AM If writing in English classes is a response to reading, isn't it important to consider reading material carefully and choose selections that will engage and inspire?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ira Socol 10:58 AM @http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2009/05/width-of-world.html technology and communication

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dana Rivera 10:58 AM I think we need to think about how students will use writing in their adult lives (professionally and socially), what types of media will they use to produce that writing, and how are we preparing them to be able to do that?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Leah Fechtmann 10:58 AM I have a student with a very strong block to writing (VERY strong) because he can imagine an excellent product but crashes and burns trying to get there, whether spoken or written. Are there novel beginnings which most encourage the iterative aspect?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 10:59 AM Paul--what's critical is that there not be a dichotomy between form and content--we need to resolve the issues of access. if we see form and content as a dichotomy, we lose sight of potential possibilities.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Ira Socol 11:02 AM see "Fifty People, One Question" on YouTube

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 11:02 AM Participatory process-- Zuckerman this one, Paul? @http://civic.mit.edu/blog/erhardt/ethan-zuckermans-dml-keynote-beyond-%E2%80%9Cthe-crisis-in-civics%E2%80%9D

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dana Rivera 11:04 AM voice + digital media = increased impact

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> me 11:04 AM significance and impact of writing is something kids also need to know. How is civics today different from civics in the past? interesting to think about--I often wonder about citizen journalism--or photography and the ethics of posting something immediately. For example, I don't want to EVER see a loved one's car wrecked on twitter/facebook through a common friend before I am contacted. I don't want to learn about it that way...so I think about how we teach kids that piece of our participatory culture?

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Dana Rivera 11:13 AM The immediacy of social networks has made the need to exercise a filter more necessary than ever before, because the audience for one's thoughts is so greatly magnified.