Troy Hicks: Integrating Tech into Literacy Instruction

CCIRA Literacy Conversations

Troy Hicks: professor of English and Education at Central Michigan University. former middle school language arts teacher, Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project shares about New Literacies in the classroom.

Resources:

• Troy's Website
• Troy's new book: Mindful Teaching with Technology
• NCTE Definition of literacy in the digital age
• Adobe Spark: Free for K-12
• Northwestern University Knight Lab Storylines Tools
• Sutori
• Thinglink
• Choose Your Own Adventure - Alice Keeler
• Chippewa River Writing Project - Youtube
• Stanford History Education Group
  • Lateral Reading
• National Writing Project
• Transmedia Storytelling 101 - Henry Jenkins
• Creating Confident Writers

Troy Hicks' heroes:

• Chris Miller, mentor as a teacher
• Ernest Morrell, Director of NCTE Policy Studies, mentor as a teacher educator

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