Engaging+Electronic+English

Session Description:
This day-long workshop will begin with an overview of current theories surrounding the importance of 21st century literacies as well as the effective integration of technology in the English classroom. The session will then turn to an examination of various projects used throughout MICDS that have quite a number of applications. Finally, participants will workshop with several of these technologies building projects that they can take directly into their classrooms in the fall.

Presenter Bio: Lynn Mittler, St. Louis, MO
Lynn Mittler started her teaching career in the deserts of Yemen and jungles of Gabon, far away from technology. After 14 years of teaching in American classrooms, she is a firm believer in the power of technology to engage students and challenge their thinking.

A upper school English teacher by day and geek by night, Lynn has developed curriculum and worked to integrate technology into those curricula in meaningful ways. She is one of the pioneering teachers in The Sudan Project, a class at MICDS that works in cooperation with Take 2 Videos, that helps build documentaries with footage provided by the organization’s founder Karin Muller. The project has allowed her to truly investigate what 21st century learning really looks like.

Lynn’s favorite activity remains reading, online or off.