NWP on CNN: How Technology Can Benefit Classroom Writing

Publication: CNN
Date: August 24, 2010

Summary: In an interview on CNN's Connect the World, NWP Executive Director Sharon J. Washington encourages the use of digital writing in the classroom to equip students with the technology-related communication skills they need to thrive in our information-rich, high-speed, high-tech culture.

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So what are you doing to harness the power of mobile technology or digital technology in the classroom. What's the project all about? What are we going to see at the end of it?"—CNN

WASHINGTON: One of the things that we've begun to see already is that young people's writing achievement scores are actually increasing because of the ways that the teachers in the National Writing Project are really engaging with digital media today and how it is used today in ways that are very effective and necessary in today's workplace, and certainly in terms of school.

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Read the Connect the World transcript on CNN.com (NWP segment begins about three quarters down the page).