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ragin kenny

Hunters and Gatherers - 6,800 BC to 1,500 BC - 1 views

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  • ragin kenny on 07 Aug 12
     
    Hunters and Gatherers North America
Malcolm Campbell

Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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technology teaching writing social netwrking

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  • bad habits they fear their students pick up on computers
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      Wouldn't it be nice to capture 'gamers' attention for such sites as these? Wonder how it might work?
  • Students submit essays that are longer but not better written than those in years past
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      This doesn't appear to be the case, re: longer papers. Whycome so many papers fall short of minimum page counts?
  • The perils are clearer. "Students will tinker endlessly with the text and forget that their paper doesn't have a thesis," says Kathleen Skubikowski, an assistant professor of English who directs the writing program at Middlebury College. "I receive immaculately word-processed documents that are just terrible," says David Galef, an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      Interesting! Sometimes a roadblock to me is the time it takes to learn the technology associated with new applications and, like the thesis for students, I'm occaionally in danger of forgetting to plan my class lessons.
  • Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
     
    Chronical of Higher Ed piece
Malcolm Campbell

Clive Thompson on the New Literacy - 3 views

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  • The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text.
    • Lacy Manship
      Lacy Manship on 28 Jul 10
       
      So... right... texts and Texts are so mixed up in our lives now in a way that is more social than writing has ever been before. Like I wrote texts, facebook statues, emails so much more often than we wrote postcards and letters and passed notes before.
    • Lucy Arnold
      Lucy Arnold on 28 Jul 10
       
      I can't think of a Facebook status report right now. Will you write one for me and I'll plagiarize it?
    • Lacy Manship
      Lacy Manship on 28 Jul 10
       
      I think you just wrote it. Copy and paste
  • An age of illiteracy is at hand, right?
    • Malcolm Campbell
      Malcolm Campbell on 28 Jul 10
       
      There's actually something called the "post-literate age" - can't remember who coined the phrase.
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