Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2016
Department
Humanities
Abstract
My career in writing studies was originally inspired by the convergence of my academic interests and my natural inclination to play with technology. In the 15 years since I was in school, the technology has changed, the way people communicate with technology has changed, the students' technological immersion has changed, and the scholarship had changed. My goal was to walk around in the 21st century landscape to try to reorient and re-inspire myself and make some connections between traditional and digital literacies. In particular, I was interested in reflecting on two areas that had become quite central to the scholarly discussion in those years: video games and learning and the growing movement toward more multimedia forms of composition. While I have stayed current with the disciplinary conversations, I had nagging reservations and questions that I hadn't been able to reconcile. I have never been one to be comfortable dropping new pedagogies into my teaching if they don't feel organic to and intertwined with my own teaching philosophy. I'm also wary of new teaching techniques that are hot and new simply because they are hot and new, especially if they seem more grounded in the gee whiz factor than concretely connected to the key learning objectives of my courses.
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Boyd, Paula, "Sabbatical Summary" (2016). Sabbaticals. 51.
https://spark.parkland.edu/sabbaticals/51
