Share Paper: Cloud-based Technology and Student Writing Skills. Can we do Better?

  1. Mark Carbajal, Coastal Bend College, United States
Wednesday, November 6 2:25-2:45 PM Galerie 4

Abstract: In today's economy, cloud-based technology offers students the ability to access and share documents and files from multiple locations. An important attribute with regards to this technological shift, is how it affords one to collaborate with others by sharing comments, making editorial suggestions and co-authoring papers. There appears to be a collective body of evidence which suggest that when it is used in secondary classrooms, students writing improves as a result of utilizing cloud-based technologies (Mell & Grance, 2011; Connor, 2008; Graham & Perrin, 2007). A growing body of literature points to the fact that the presence of electronic and ...