Makers in the Writing Classroom

CCR 711 ::: 12/5/13

Thursday, December 12, 13

What’s the takeway for our own contexts?

Thursday, December 12, 13

Jana:

What does it mean to make with materials/objects (digital or not)? Not as hobby, but earnest practice, invention, awareness (mindfulness, or maybe materialness), curiosity, potential.

Thursday, December 12, 13

Jana:

What I value from it is potential – potential in people viewing themselves as designers/inventors/tinkerers, in curiosity, in attention to materials, in agency (human and nonhuman), in how we conceptualize tools, and in envisioning spaces of opportunity. While my interest as a scholar and teacher is not so much on the emphasis of manufacturing and entrepreneurship, I find value in imagining possibility, and at a different scale, adopting this (maybe my students aren’t making robots that can execute oratory hand gestures of classical rhetors but Twitter bots that re-mediate rhetorical tropes and composition commonplaces we discuss in class).

Thursday, December 12, 13

crowdsourcing

Thursday, December 12, 13

Thursday, December 12, 13

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Thursday, December 12, 13

Thursday, December 12, 13

Thursday, December 12, 13