What does it mean to teach--particularly English; even more specifically, English composition--in 2010? What role(s) can/does/should technology play in the classroom? Does there even need to be a physical classroom? How can instructors most effectively adapt our traditional teaching techniques to fit a world in which both learning and living increasingly takes place online? Should it actually be the other way around, with a focus on adopting technologies rather than on adapting our teaching? Is it even possible to do one without also doing the other? What attitudes and assumptions about technology do students bring into the classroom with them? How accurate are our assumptions about what students do and do not know about technology, about how and when and where and why they use it in their daily lives?
That's an awfully long list of questions, but I believe that they are of critical importance to the future of academia. I cannot possibly hope to answer all, or probably even most, of them in a lowly blog, but I would at least like to try.
The following video, created in 2007 by Dr. Michael Wesch and 200 students in his Introduction to Cultural Anthropology course at Kansas State University, vividly illustrates many of the issues and ideas that I would like to explore in this space:
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