Fashioning the Emperor's New Clothes: Emerging Pedagogy and Practices of Turning Wireless Laptops Into Classroom Literacy Stations @SouthernCT.edu Export

@article{citeulike:181811, abstract = {It seems humans want the best of technology without having to look at it, or what it does, closely. Though wireless technology makes a great pun about how it improves our ability to be "wired," not everyone is laughing. In this collaborative hypertext, four English professors explore their learning curves in a newly created, wireless, laptop-equipped classroom. Our research and writing was guided by these four questions. What happens when a state school (with a significant population of blue collar, first generation college learners) creates a wireless laptop lab for first-year composition as a way to teach critical, traditional and technological literacies? Does adopting cutting edge computer technology mean that you get to cut through the problems that other folks experienced when setting up desktop computer labs, or does its adoption lead to different and more painful "cutting of teeth?" How does an English department leap from almost no involvement with computers and writing to a state-of-the-art laptop lab? How do two very important technological advances (i.e., smaller hardware and increased computing mobility) affect pedagogy and identity in computerized writing classes? Why go wireless?}, author = {Dean, D. C.}, citeulike-article-id = {181811}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/binder2.html?coverweb/hochman_et_al/intro.html}, howpublished = {online}, journal = {KAIROS}, keywords = {collegewriting, cscl, laptops, pedagogy, wireless}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2005-05-06 19:02:59}, priority = {4}, title = {Fashioning the Emperor's New Clothes: Emerging Pedagogy and Practices of Turning Wireless Laptops Into Classroom Literacy Stations @SouthernCT.edu}, url = {http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/binder2.html?coverweb/hochman_et_al/intro.html}, volume = {9}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:181811 L3 - citeulike-article-id:181811 N2 - It seems humans want the best of technology without having to look at it, or what it does, closely. Though wireless technology makes a great pun about how it improves our ability to be "wired," not everyone is laughing. In this collaborative hypertext, four English professors explore their learning curves in a newly created, wireless, laptop-equipped classroom. Our research and writing was guided by these four questions. What happens when a state school (with a significant population of blue collar, first generation college learners) creates a wireless laptop lab for first-year composition as a way to teach critical, traditional and technological literacies? Does adopting cutting edge computer technology mean that you get to cut through the problems that other folks experienced when setting up desktop computer labs, or does its adoption lead to different and more painful "cutting of teeth?" How does an English department leap from almost no involvement with computers and writing to a state-of-the-art laptop lab? How do two very important technological advances (i.e., smaller hardware and increased computing mobility) affect pedagogy and identity in computerized writing classes? Why go wireless? IS - 1 JF - KAIROS TI - Fashioning the Emperor's New Clothes: Emerging Pedagogy and Practices of Turning Wireless Laptops Into Classroom Literacy Stations @SouthernCT.edu VL - 9 KW - collegewriting KW - cscl KW - laptops KW - pedagogy KW - wireless AU - Dean, DC PY - 2004///Fall UR - http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.1/binder2.html?coverweb/hochman_et_al/intro.html ER -