11.30 boyd, Herring and exam questions

List of theorists for second half of the term:

Selfe:  technology and the classroom = how teachers teach it, literacy and access, educator's role, technology is not neutral= potential for technology to exclue users by race, class + gender


Selfe & Selfe: politics of the interface; MS office made for business; metaphors of the interface;
exclusion by language group => coding ASCII ; structure of interface reflects white, middle class male literacies;


McGee & Ericsson: politics of the grammar checker => designed for business not for education; the essay proposed a different set of designers; problems posed by grammar checkers for teaching writing: false senes of security=


Eldred:  4 approaches to teaching writing;  technology asintegral to effective literacy pedagogy; choice of technology, ease of use, participation, audience

Williams: hypertext pedagogy; design model for teaching writing; how hypertext changes composing + composing process

Hayles: hyper attention=> multitasking, aware of multiple inputs, need for stimulation + interaction, active;  deep attention = focused, sustained attention = like reading a Dickens novel

Herring : men v women behavior + value systems related to the internet; politeness (+ and - P, + and - N) = different values for politeness AND for freedom

boyd:  social networking and teenagers; identity creation, social status, [impression management]; social networking connects identity to writing and the features of persistence, searchability, replicability, & invisble audience further complicate identity issues => publics play critical role in development of identity; tensions between public and private



List of topics for exam questions:

the internet and " learning to read social cues and react accordingly":Hayles, Herring, boyd

digital technologies, composing process, and teaching writing:  McGee & Ericsson, Eldred, Williams

digital spaces and social justice issues: Selfe; Selfe &Selfe, Herring, boyd

literacies and interfaces: Selfe& Selfe, McGee & Ericsson, Williams, [Hayles], boyd

literate practices and digital technologies: McGee & Ericsson, Hayles, Herring, boyd

For next class:

I will return your draft research essays with comments.  We will use the class as a workshop for your research essays, and as a review for the final exam.