I will be teaching English in Secondary Education (Middle or High School). I suppose that I had taken for granted that Final Drafts of my students' assignments would be typed. I had not considered the full implications of using word processing software. Why should we use it just as a type-writer? Wouldn't it be a GREAT place to begin teaching them how to produce professional, appearing documents?
Every profession in the world requires employees to be literate. Part of that skill is being able to be understood by the people you are communicating with; but isn't it SO much more? Isn't it also about catching their attention and drawing them into what you've created?
I would love to teach my students how to truly be heard because that empowers them. Bill Gates once said, “There's a basic philosophy here that by empowering...workers you'll make their jobs far more interesting, and they'll be able to work at a higher level than they would have without all that information just a few clicks away.”
Technological Possiblities: Research, Publication, Q & A with popular Authors.....the list could be endless. What are your suggestions?
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