Connected Learning
Content-Area Literacy
Teacher Inquiry
Scientific Writing and Technological Change
Excerpt
In this chapter, we explain several major ways that scientific writing has changed given technological advances. We then explain how we have attempted to address these changes in our teaching of scientific writing, for Julianne at the high school level (Greely High School, Maine) and for Mya at the college level (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts). At each site, we incorporate technology into or teaching as we lead students through the scientific research process. In this chapter, we focus on four areas that we have specifically integrated technology into our teaching—proposal writing, literature reviews, “storying” research findings, and peer review.
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