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on the Digitally,
MAGICally,IDEALly-MESSY
DEVELOPMENT and PROCESSing of knowledge, through the experience of WRITING. . .
from the AUTHORity of a student.
~ Cara Gieringer ~Composition Theory with Dr. Sally Crisp
UALR Rhetoric and Writing Graduate program
Spring 2013
a CONSTRUCTive Conversation
ACCESS
AUTHORity
DIGITAL IS…
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
WRITING AS A PROCESS
EPISTEMOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGERULES OF THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS: TAKE RISKS, MAKE MISTAKES, GET MESSY.
ANHow did I learn
what I know and
why?
AN IDEAL TEXT?
Composition theory constructs
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/celebrities/The-Last-Lion.html
Link to video on Youtube
In 2005, author David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address at Kenyon College. This famous Youtube video went
viral after the author’s suicide several years later.
Awareness
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi
www.kmweiland.com
Writing as a Process
Own your words and your voice.
You can often find traces of learned behaviors and inherited traits of knowledge in family scrapbooks or
home videos.
A Literacy Narrative ~ learning how you learned to learn
Use your words! Use them symbolically, physically, technically, and digitally. And playfully! To question reality as you know it is crucial to the practice of critical thinking. Literally make sense of them. And do let yourself notice the coincidental connections that seem particularly ridiculous. Something hides behind those strategic, yet subtle font choices. Something worth your time. Use words socially too so you can learn how other people use their words. Do they use different words than you’re used to? What if someone talks about something you don’t recall knowing anything about? Ask questions! 1. Asking dumb questions is not a thing. 2. Asking someone to tell you more, to explain what you mean is very complementary for the new teacher.
Critical thinking requires practice and where better to stretch out that brain than the privacy of your own mind?
An Ideal Text?
Knowledge can be developed socially. I’m a fan of throwing down (literally) in a Barnes
and Noble bookstore. . .
*Quotes & iPhone app
*TED.com app*Facebook app featuring images from the “Life’s A Dance”
page*Pinterest.com
DreamThisDay.com
Quote Pics Cited
EPISTEMOLOGY – A useful tool to inspire you to observe and question your own thoughts and ways of learning.
“What distinguished collaborative learning in each of its several types from traditional classroom practice was that it did not seem to change . . . so much as it changed the social context in which they learned it.
Students' work tended to improve when they got help
from peers; peers offering help, furthermore, learned
from the students they helped and from the
activity of helping itself.”
COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
Bruffee is celebrated for securing a place for writing centers in university administration. He published the first peer tutoring handbook, A Short Course in Writing, in 1972.
Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’.” College English 46.7 (November 1984): 635-652. Reprinted in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory (Third edition), NCTE.
- Kenneth Bruffee
This is what being stuck in my computer playing the linking game looks like. It isn’t as fun or productive as it looks…
“As alluring as the digital world may be, we’re beginning to realize its limits— and Millennials are in a better position to do so than anyone.
If you’re looking at digital from the outside, as way too many older people still are, all you see is that everything looks wrong—but that’s because you’re looking at it through the wrong lens.
When you’ve embraced it on its own terms, you’re in a position to criticize it intelligently.”
—FRANK ROSE, author of The Art of Immersion and correspondent for Wired