pastore teachnology statement
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A remix of my philosophy of teaching with technology.TRANSCRIPT
Erin Duffy PastoreTeaching Writing with Technology
February 12, 2008
Baseline Model: Critical Literacy
Critical Literacy Skills: thinkingreadingwriting
Media:Print BroadcastCyberspace
Tools:Analog (pen and paper)
Digital (computer)
Literacy skills allow our students to retain, analyze, and produce content relevant to their rhetorical situations.
These skills are what empower our students in their lives.
Assumption: Learning is LearnedAll students possess an
inherent capability to learn
Those inherent capabilities can be developed though mentorship
A motivated and scaffolded pedagogical style is required
Possibility: Critical Engagement
Asking students to expand literacy through technology creates a rigorous writing environment.
Ideally, students are better prepared to port knowledge and skill into other areas of their lives.
Focus: Technology as BridgeTechnology can be used to focus on:
the art of investigating content
the science of operating interfaces
the skill of combing both
Challenge: Demands on Teacher
The teacher is a monitor, mediator, and facilitator.
TeachingPeer-to-Peer Learning
Requirement: Explicit Discussion
Networked computer discussion may allow students to play with their voice in a low-stakes manner, if the instructor is vigilant in how it is integrated into the classroom.
Benefit: Teamwork & Knowledge Sharing
Vision: Teaching CyberwritingStudents are often taught to think
of technology in academic communication as separate and distinct from how they have blended technology (often naively) in other areas of their lives.
Students need to consider how they can blend their academic rhetorical purposes through digital and analog technologies
ReferencesMcKee, Heidi. “’YOUR VIEWS SHOWED TRUE IGNORANCE!!!’:
(Mis)Communication in an online interracial discussion forum.” Computers and Composition 19.4 (December 2002): 411- 434.
Palmquist, Mike, Kate Kiefer, James Hartvigsen and Barbara Goodlew.
“Curriculum Design: Doing More with Less.” Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-supported and Traditional Classrooms. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998.
Porter, James. “Why technology matters to writing: A cyberwriter’s tale.”
Computers and Composition 20.4 (December 2003): 375- 394.
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