SPECIAL LINKS:
The CUNY Games Network
http://cunygames.wordpress.com/
At the above website, you can find a developing list of games and game-exercises (please add more!), as well as special resources for educators interested in professionalizing in this area (conferences, journals to submit to).
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Bizzell talks back to Stanley Fish and his notion in Save the World on Your Own Time (and the blog post that we discussed at our first meeting) that professors fail when they let “issues” take center-stage in the classroom and don’t do the work of teaching the “material of their disciplines, the disciplinary methods and objects of study” (179). Read the article at: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues/v72-2
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This chapter highlights the key challenges faced by diverse adult writers for whom English is not a first language (L1). The authors focus on academic literacy, bearing in mind that there are a number of other personal and professional genres of writing that are important for multilinguals. They establish globalism and postmodernism as important sociocultural and philosophical lenses through which to view multilingual writers and describe the critical debates that relate to how teachers and researchers have addressed the development of literacy competence in postsecondary educational contexts. Finally, they outline a socially situated pedagogy to integrate the diverse components that meet the needs of successful multilingual writers and address challenges ahead. You can preview the article at Google Books: http://tinyurl.com/ycuysts
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This article is nice introduction into the concept of self-efficacy and how it can function not only as a measure of student writers’ improvement, but also as a guide to pedagogical practice. Lavelle establishes that writing, as an ideal academic assignment for college students (e.g., helps them remember facts, concepts, and develops critical thinking; provides a cognitive map subject to reconstruction in the process of revision), is immensely demanding in its range of cognitive demands on working memory (e.g., writers sort through theme, genre, paragraph, sentence, word choice, grammar; they move back forth between “bigger picture” concerns such as voice and intentionality to “smaller picture” concerns such as spelling and punctuation). Writers’ beliefs about writing play a powerful role as they engage in the process. Their self-efficacy, “the belief that one can succeed at a particular task, is a powerful factor affecting both learning and writing performance.” You can preview the chapter at Google Books: http://tinyurl.com/yz2qmhb
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This article discusses how to bridge the split between two approaches to teaching composition: one with a focus on developing the skills students need to thrive in the work world (which the authors identify as an “instrumentalist” or “pragmatic” pedagogy) and the other with a focus on developing students’ social awareness in an attempt to “build a better world for all” (critical pedagogy). The authors focus on teaching composition but it seems to me that their argument could apply across many disciplines. What goals do we bring to our classrooms and how do we frame and “sell” the material of our courses in a changing, economically-fraught world? Read the article at: http://www.ncte.org/journals/ce/issues/v72-2
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