I am Generation Y
I am part of the generation that grew up with a home phone
and now can’t imagine having one. I am part of the generation that is known for
understanding and adapting new technologies quickly. These technologies
contribute to my personal, social, and academic lifestyles. Therefore I believe
that they should be studied.
Ivory tower = Bad
Ignoring these technologies and changes in the classroom is
ignoring reality out of the classroom. I hope during this semester we can
(quite specifically) answer why teachers should be teaching with technology.
My goals for our class:
Include all disciplines and use outside of academia
While our focus is most obviously English composition
classrooms, I hope we can include theories and practices from multiple
disciplines to see how other scholars and teachers are attempting to answer the
same questions that we are.
Grapple with the goals of teaching
I hope we can address the following questions:
are we teaching for marketability or are we teaching to encourage critical
thinking and writing? (One could argue either, both, or neither depending on
their teaching philosophy and goals.) What do students need to learn? How does this need relate to our teaching, their
writing, digitality, and technology?
My individual goals:
To understand
I see it as a disservice to students to not include
technology while teaching composition, but I would like to ground my reasons
first theoretically and second by the experiences and research of others.
To argue
I would like to argue (quite thoroughly) why we
should or should not teach with technology by examining what practices are proven
to be effective in the classroom in order to help students become engaged,
learned, critical, and prepared individuals.
To learn
I hope this class, our readings, and my
classmates can
- further help me learn about technologies and how they have been used socially and academically
- lead to a historical understanding of the creation and use of such technologies in culture
- lead to “rigorous play” (as Dr. Wysocki suggestsin the course blog) to learn by experimentation and through experience.
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