Textlab: A lightweight learning management system for secondary literacy instruction.
Channel: Andrew Pratt
Date: 2011-10-14

Music: "These Legs" by Thanks,Again

Textlab.org
Literacy is a technology. Technology is a literacy.

Andrew Plemmons Pratt (TFA DC Region '10, 7th grade English in PGCPS)
Jordyn Sims (TFA DC Region '10, 8th grade English in PGCPS)

Teaching students literacy skills in a digital environment requires better software. We need a laboratory for reading and writing the way college students and professionals read and write: efficiently, collaboratively, and on the Internet. We need a Textlab.

Textlab is a lightweight Learning Management System, or LMS, built specifically for middle and high school literacy instruction. It allows students to practice critical reading and writing skills and to create portfolios of digital work. It also allows instructors to provide targeted, differentiated assignments and materials to students and to offer feedback in a secure online format. It is a platform-independent web application, optimized for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile access.