Create, Compose, Connect!: Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools

by Jeremy Hyler, Troy Hicks

Find out how to incorporate digital tools into your English language arts class to improve students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Authors Jeremy Hyler and Troy Hicks show you that technology is not just about making a lesson engaging; it’s about helping students become effective creators and consumers of information in today’s fast-paced world. You’ll learn how to use mobile technologies to teach narrative, informational, and argument writing as well as visual literacy and multimodal research. Each chapter is filled with exciting lesson plans and tech tool suggestions that you can take back to your own classroom immediately. See Jeremy Hyler’s TEDx!

Genres: Teaching, Education

198 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Kevin Hodgson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jeremy Hyler and Troy Hicks bring you inside the classroom to show how digital media and technology can become integrated into instruction in meaningful ways. The overarching philosophy here is to notice and understand the ways in which kids are using technology in their lives, and bringing some of that interest and experience into an active and engaging learning environment.

[Deborah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author has used the ideas in his classrooms, and i like that. He makes realistic claims and suggestions.

[Sarah Krajewski · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author had some ideas in this book, but it's more for teachers beginning to use technology to create digital writing assignments. Since the publication of this book, Google Classroom was introduced, so it was already a bit outdated for me.