Monday March 19 Assignments

Note: No Class Wednesday March 21

 

Happy Spring Break! Your first assignment for over break is to prepare an informal proposal for your Course Design. Plan to deliver it by mouth and by paper. Use from the lists below what you find useful but feel free to stray and invent new questions and terms.

 

Heuristic:

  • What are your pedagogical goals?
  • What will students expect when they enroll?
  • What your students know when they exit?
  • What will they know how to do?
  • What experiences will they have had in class and why will these be these valuable?

 

Terms:

  • content knowledge
  • conceptual knowledge
  • reading practice or performance
  • writing practice or performance
  • oral practice or performance
  • aural practice (can you perform aurally?)

 

Your second assignment is to read the following articles to advance our reading theory agenda. I believe the Passions, Pedagogies . . . readings suffer from bad proofing—so don’t be alarmed. These are pretty light reads.

 

Baron, Dennis. “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies.” In Hawisher and Selfe, Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. 15-33.

 

Sosnoski, James. ‘Hyper-readers and Their Reading Engines.” In Hawisher and Selfe, Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. 161-77.

 

Note: Passions, Pedagogies . . . should be on hard copy reserves. I may have a digital copy of the Sosnoski, so ask if you need it.

 

PREVIEWS:

Slevin, “Life Strategies” (ereserves) (about identity and Internet reading practices)

 

Next unit: Orality and Script

Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. (all)

And take a look at this Ong site: The Walter J. Ong Collection

http://libraries.slu.edu/sc/ong/

Ong, "The Literate Orality of Popular Culture", in: Ong, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971.   (optional—not up on ereserves yet)

 

De Certeau, “Scriptural Economies” (ereservers)

De Certeau, “Quotation” (ereserves)

De Certeau, “Poaching” (ereserves)

*the De Certeau chapters are from The Practice of Everyday Life. DC theorizes orality—deep stuff.