TeachingComp

Bibliographies for composition research threads

From the article: "We have the content and we have the skills to build our own GarageBand for education."

Article is geared to language teachers, but ideas are interesting for all :)

This is one perspective on why students should be given multiple opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge

Great rant against the "dogooders" of literacy campaigns. From the article "So, every day "we," led by politicians of dubious education and intentions, and by self-enriching dogooders like Pam Allyn, label children as pathologically diseased because their brains don't work exactly like "our" brains. And then, we administer daily doses of humiliation because we somehow forget that someone like Socrates managed to know a whole hell of a lot without being "literate" at all - and, in fact - opposing literacy in every form."

Update to Wesch's original video "A Vision of Students Today." Made up of student produced films about what it means to be "a student today."

From the description: "It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, university classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our culture."

More Mike Wesch. If you haven't seen this talk he gave to the library of congress, you should. Great model for inquiry based work with students.

Cathy Davidson's course posted on HASTAC

Resources for research and teaching in composition

A blog post in which a teacher details the "gamification" of his classroom. It's an interesting read, although I'm not sure it's really what Gee has in mind, nor am I sure Daniel Pink ("Drive") would approve.