on the Digitally,

MAGICally,IDEALly-MESSY

DEVELOPMENT and PROCESSing of knowledge, through the experience of WRITING. . .

from the AUTHORity of a student.

~ Cara Gieringer ~Composition Theory with Dr. Sally Crisp

UALR Rhetoric and Writing Graduate program

Spring 2013

a CONSTRUCTive Conversation

ACCESS

AUTHORity

DIGITAL IS…

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

WRITING AS A PROCESS

EPISTEMOLOGY

DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGERULES OF THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS: TAKE RISKS, MAKE MISTAKES, GET MESSY.

ANHow did I learn

what I know and

why?

AN IDEAL TEXT?

Composition theory constructs

AUTHORity

Development of Knowledge

*Facebook.com/DailyInspiration&Quotes

Epistemology

Awareness

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Link to video on Youtube

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace gave the commencement address at Kenyon College. This famous Youtube video went

viral after the author’s suicide several years later.

Awareness

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. - Rumi

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Writing as a Process

Own your words and your voice.

Original Sources

You can often find traces of learned behaviors and inherited traits of knowledge in family scrapbooks or

home videos.

A Literacy Narrative ~ learning how you learned to learn

Use your words! Use them symbolically, physically, technically, and digitally. And playfully! To question reality as you know it is crucial to the practice of critical thinking. Literally make sense of them. And do let yourself notice the coincidental connections that seem particularly ridiculous. Something hides behind those strategic, yet subtle font choices. Something worth your time. Use words socially too so you can learn how other people use their words. Do they use different words than you’re used to? What if someone talks about something you don’t recall knowing anything about? Ask questions! 1. Asking dumb questions is not a thing. 2. Asking someone to tell you more, to explain what you mean is very complementary for the new teacher.

Critical thinking requires practice and where better to stretch out that brain than the privacy of your own mind?

An Ideal Text?

Knowledge can be developed socially. I’m a fan of throwing down (literally) in a Barnes

and Noble bookstore. . .

RULES of the MAGIC SCHOOL BUS… GET MESSY.

*Quotes & iPhone app

*TED.com app*Facebook app featuring images from the “Life’s A Dance”

page*Pinterest.com

DreamThisDay.com

Quote Pics Cited

Sources of Human Behavior

EPISTEMOLOGY – A useful tool to inspire you to observe and question your own thoughts and ways of learning.

TIME

Digital is. . .

• Mobile• Screen-captured• Shared• Globally accessed• Video• Audio• Images• Text

Access knowledge from smartphone apps

show don’t tellVisual Rhetoric:

Thinking about thinking…

Epistemology

Reading, Thinking, Writing

An Ideal Text?

*John Bean’s writing strategy in acton: “NAPKIN NOTES”

Any text or context can be ideal at the right time.

Connect through all different contexts

“What distinguished collaborative learning in each of its several types from traditional classroom practice was that it did not seem to change . . . so much as it changed the social context in which they learned it.

Students' work tended to improve when they got help

from peers; peers offering help, furthermore, learned

from the students they helped and from the

activity of helping itself.”

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

Bruffee is celebrated for securing a place for writing centers in university administration. He published the first peer tutoring handbook, A Short Course in Writing, in 1972. 

Bruffee, Kenneth. “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’.” College English 46.7 (November 1984): 635-652. Reprinted in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory (Third edition), NCTE.

- Kenneth Bruffee

Human Kindness – Do it.

Attitude is everything.

Be open-minded. Don’t just look with your eyes. Your heart may see things more

clearly…

Keep trying.

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Even a MESSY PROCESS can HELP inform. AND DIGITAL IS easily traceable!

This is what being stuck in my computer playing the linking game looks like. It isn’t as fun or productive as it looks…

Text Box

“As alluring as the digital world may be, we’re beginning to realize its limits— and Millennials are in a better position to do so than anyone.

If you’re looking at digital from the outside, as way too many older people still are, all you see is that everything looks wrong—but that’s because you’re looking at it through the wrong lens.

When you’ve embraced it on its own terms, you’re in a position to criticize it intelligently.”

—FRANK ROSE, author of The Art of Immersion and correspondent for Wired

For last year’s words belong to

last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

– T.S. Eliot