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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:43:21 CST
- Sender: "Megabyte University (Computers & Writing)" <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
- From: Eric Hobson <EHH909F@SMSVMA.BITNET>
- Subject: Irony of the CAI survey
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- Dear MBUers:
- On the same day I received the survey request here wanting to know if/how I
- could live without CAI instruction, I received a similar survey in my mailbox
- in the Eng. dept. here at Southwest Missouri State U. The ironic part of the
- situation, however, is that while on-line I discuss the implications of educati
- onal life WITHOUT CAI, off-line, I am entering a discussion of the implications
- of educational life WITH CAI (and only within the context of first-year composi
- tion classes). So, while I contemplate my response to the MBU query (I've come
- from a school where I taught exclusively in CAI settings, to a school with a
- non-networked lab available one a week), trying to articulate the frustrations
- of re-visioning my writing courses as effective non-CAI environments, I also
- try to formulate my response to the in-house query that wonders if CAI is at
- all compatible to writing courses. In a bifurcated state of mind, I'll try to
- answer the following questions as calmly as I can:
- Is computer-assisted instruction compatible with your teaching style and
- philosophy of composition?
- What benefits do you see in CAI composition classes?
- What problems do you see that are peculiar to CAI in composotion classes?
- At what level of freshman composition is CAI most effective? Why?
- Would you be in favor of an extra hour per week of required Computer Lab
- work in CAI sections?
- What other comments would you like to make about CAI in composition classes?
-
- I've posted the original MBU query on my wall (above my computer) so I can see
- it when I need a lift. It shows me 1) what fun our assumptions are about the
- rest of academe--that CAI is widespread, and 2) that the continued growth of
- CAI is certain and may even make to MO by the end of the century.
-
- Eric Hobson
- Southwest Missour State U
-