Wednesday, December 14, 2011

12.14 Final Exam

Selfe (1999):  technology and the classroom = how teachers teach it, literacy and access, educator's role, technology is not neutral= potential for technology to exclude users by race, class, gender, and discourse

Selfe & Selfe (1994): 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 (2002): 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 (1991):  4 approaches to teaching writing;  technology asintegral to effective literacy pedagogy; choice of technology, ease of use, participation, audience

Williams (2001): hypertext pedagogy; design model for teaching writing; how hypertext changes composing + composing process

Hayles (2008): hyper attention=> multitasking, aware of multiple inputs, need for stimulation + interaction, active;  deep attention = focused, sustained attention = like reading a Dickens novel

Herring (1994) : men v women behavior + value systems related to the internet; politeness (+ and - P, + and - N) = different values for politeness AND for freedom

boyd (2007):  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


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