Teaching Digital Writing Seminar Series

Would you like to hear about the latest research into English education and what it means for your classroom, faculty and school?

Deakin University, in partnership with the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE), is running three stand-alone online professional learning Hot Topics seminars in 2024. These seminars, led by expert researcher in the field, Associate Professor Lucinda McKnight, will provide an extensive and engaging overview of the most urgent, interesting and impactful research in English, on digital writing.

Why you should come:

• access findings that are often behind journal paywalls, in a fast-paced and highly relevant format.
• gain multiple practical ideas for how this research can be translated into classroom practice
• share the implications of this research for your own context.
• devise ways to adapt, transform or be inspired by new findings.
• enjoy opportunities for professional discussion, debate and networking.
• demonstrate your commitment to evidence-informed practice.

What you need to know:

• the seminars will be recorded for participants’ access afterwards, and for those who are unable to attend in person.
• different research will be covered in each session.
• book for as many sessions as you like.

This October, Lucinda is leading three 45-minute Hot Topics online seminars to share the educational resources developed for the Australian Research Council Teaching Digital Writing in Secondary English project. This project involved developing digital writing labs in three fabulous Victorian schools and developing curriculum materials in collaboration with teaching teams.

Each of the three sessions will provide valuable and practical ideas for classroom teaching in relation to digital writing.

Aligned with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

• 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.4

	Seminar One, 10 October, 2024, 5.00-5.45pm: Spoken Word YouTube Poetry Engage students as poets, performers, directors, producers and videographers in the practice of creating spoken word poetry. Inspired by UK’s George the Poet, who became famous as a teenager, this session shares lesson plans and ideas for developing multiple skills and the confidence to present online.
	Seminar Two, 17 October, 2024, 5.00-5.45pm: Platforms for Protest Support students to find their voices through writing petitions for online platforms. This seminar grapples with teaching content creation, a form of digital writing which is central to the careers and lives of young people. How do you write readable, succinct and engaging text for the screen? Select and edit an image? Create a viable call to action in a website? Understand the role of platforms in constructing messages? Develop your own digital literacy skills and related pedagogies.
	Seminar Three, 24 October, 5.00-5.45pm: GenAI as Career Coach Enter the brave new world of presenting the self for the workplace… with the involvement of generative AI. Creating jobskills-related documents has been disrupted by new technologies that require skilled decision making in relation to both maintaining privacy and being competitive in the jobs market. This seminar addresses vital workplace operational, cultural and critical literacies that all teachers, and students, need to have.

Registration
To register for the programs, visit our registration page

Other information, please visit Digital Writing Lab