The Real Genius of Computer-Mediating Teaching of Writing |
| Confronted by demands that include an inbox full of e-mail to read, new upgrades of software versions to learn, Web sites to design and analyze, podcasts to record, hardware to manage and integrate, and technological explanations to prepare for the classroom, we sometimes feel like asking ourselves: |
“Do you have to be a genius to teach computer-mediated writing?” |
| Technology’s ever-growing and sometimes overwhelming presence in the classroom gives some teachers reason for celebration and others cause for dread. The pedagogical techniques of computer-mediated teaching are based in the belief that technology is here for teachers not for the sake of adding flashy excitement to our classes, but to enhance the rhetoric and composition principles we are trying to accomplish. | |
This video features the computer-mediated writing class of Steve Utterback, professor of Communications and Humanities at Owens Community College. Steve is a veteran faculty member and has taught composition, technical writing, creative writing and literature classes for 31 years - including the past five years in computer lab settings. He also is the editor of the college’s journal Pathways: Arts and Literary Journal of Owens Community College. Steve’s interaction with his students in this class reveals various successful pedagogies that he employs. He shows us the real genius is found in recognizing how much we all have to learn. |
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