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Society has focused on children as readers because, historically, it has been much more interested in children as receptors than as producers of the written word.

Writing has historically and inextricably been linked to testing.

With digital technology and, especially Web 2.0, it seems, writers are *everywhere* - on bulletin boards and in chat rooms and in emails and in text messages and on blogs responding to news reports and, indeed, reporting the news themselves as I-reporters. Such writing is what Deborah Brandt has called self-sponsored writing: a writing that belongs to the writer, not to an institution, with the result that people—students, senior citizens, employees, volunteers, family members, sensible and non-sensible people alike—want to compose and do—on the page and on the screen and on the network - to each other.

When teaching children to write in print, we don’t insist that they spell every word correctly before they are allowed to write a sentence; we don’t expect perfect paragraphs before they are allowed to write a story. We expect complex thinking to develop alongside and with beginning skills.

תוויות: כלי ווב 2.0, כתיבה