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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:08:00 EST
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- From: BECKY RICKLY <00RJRICKLY@BSUVAX1.BITNET>
- Subject: Moderated IRC Session
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- Tuesday night's IRC session (9:00 cdt) will be centered around a topic
- that affects us all: the use of technology in the teaching of writing.
- Cindy Selfe and Gail Hawisher, in their article "The Rhetoric of Tech-
- nology and the Electronic Writing Class" (CCC 42, Feb. 1991), suggest
- that writing instructors who use computers in their classrooms
- are guilty of "uncritical enthusiasm." Further, ". . .electronic
- technology, unless considered carefully and used critically, can
- and will support. . . negative pedagogical approaches. . ." (56).
-
- The authors suggest that we start to "identify ways in which technology
- can fail us" socially, politically, and educationally.
-
- In Tuesday night's session we will discuss how, more than a year after
- the article's publication, we have (or haven't) begun to think
- critically about the use of technology in the writing class.
-
- Questions to think about include:
-
- --Has technology shaped strategies for working with students,
- or the other way around?
-
- --Is the computer environment truly more egalitarian, or just
- more easily policed?
-
- --Does the computer pre-empt valuable ftf dialogue between
- students and teachers?
-
- --Is peer teaching and collaboration really more common in
- computer labs?
-
- --Is the kind of writing done in computer labs valuable?
-
- --Are computer labs really more student-centered? How?
-
- Looking forward to seeing you all (virtually) Tuesday night!
-
- Becky Rickly
- 00rjrickly@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
-