Thereforeiam
Thereforeiam
The purpose of this blog is to post my research for 220C. I am interested in exploring voice and identity on discussion boards as a means to redistribute authority in the composition classroom. By redistribution, I mean the audience is not solely the teacher but peers as well. By empowering the students, by celebrating what they bring personally and culturally to the classroom, equity in the classroom is established. I know that some argue that as long as there are syllabi and grades, the teacher, as authority, will always exist. We'll see what the case studies show. Please share any ideas you have. Right now I am looking at Jackie Jones Royster, "When the First Voice You Hear is Not Your Own" and bell Hooks' "Talkin Back". Gloria Anzaldua also discusses identity in her work. Perhaps too I can examine the "Contact Zone" more closely (Mary Pratt?). What do ya'll think?
posted by Chris Flores @ 8:39 PM
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I was thinking about Cathy's ideas about using real names on blogs when I read Tammy's handout/reading for class tomorrow. If blog identity is so important to students as the article suggests, then it seems that instructors should allow the students to choose their blog name...That quiet student in the back-Let's call him Harold Preston Glass III-I wonder how he composes as Ice Man or Unbreakable in cyberspace versus under his father and grandfather's name...I guess I never really thought about how important identity is to people...protecting it, upholding it, concealing it, escaping it...especially young people who may not be as comfortable in their skin yet. And I am writing this all in a box which directly below it says, "Choose an identity".
Not about school...I volunteer at the Bingo hall for V's softball team which is always a Daisy. I have to work in the smoking section, and I come home stinking like I've been in a bar (grrrr). Anyway, tonight I saw a man who always goes to bingo with his wife. He was there alone; he told me she passed away last week-ovarian cancer-said there's no cure. Anyway he was there, living, not swimming in a bottle of Jamieson with his bathrobe on as I would be...
But I can't stop thinking about him; and how he looks strange without her. Funny thing is I don't even know their names. But when I picture him; it is always with her. I think I will put on my bathrobe and have some Jamieson for them.
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology-Searching for Higher Ground by Adam J. Banks.
Thoughts on the first chapter:
I liked this book so far because it chronicles the digital divide over the past ten years,and it also gives insight into how historically African Americans have been excluded from technology. Banks explains that while the Northern states and the rest of the country were experiencing an industrial change/boom, recently freed slaves were almost exclusively depending on agriculture. Banks seem to say that each time there is a new wave of change that affects economy, African Americans seem to lag behind...largely due to access and awareness.
More to come on the next chapters.
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