The face of the English department is changing. Rhetoric and writing are replacing literature as the department mainstay. According to Marc Bousquet there has been a decline in tenure track English teaching positions due in part to a shift from…
English 5010
Digital natives need admin support!
by Ryan • • 0 Comments
I think Prensky writes a very commanding article. So does Jenkins. But both men speak outside of their own personal experience. I wonder what a young student, say perhaps a 7th grade girl, would have to say about the use…
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Class Blog Post 1
by lminnis209 • • 0 Comments
Two of the articles I liked one I found extremely offensive! Maybe I am too embroiled within the subject, since I have taught and believe in technology integration. I thought Neil Postman had some good points but most of his…
English 5010
Snack Wrangling
by Kim De Vries • • 9 Comments
Please refer to the class schedule and in a comment here, tell me which day you’d like to provide food and drink–each date will have 2 people. 9/24 Kim and Mike 10/8 Nobody 🙁 10/22 Alex Janney 10/29 Ryan and…
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Oh God! Is that a mushroom cloud in the horizon?
by mbond • • 0 Comments
Postman and Prensky really got me thinking about the fear and caution kinda inherent in technology. Reading Prensky allowed me to diagnose my fear as a symptom of Digital Immigrant status. By this I don’t mean to demean immigration as…
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English Allies
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
I ended my blog with this question: To me, since reading and writing go hand-in-hand, shouldn’t they be allies in the digital takeover? “The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies” made me wonder about the content of…