Add technology and stir!

June 22, 2012
pedagogy, tools
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marc
June 22, 2012 4:52 pm

I like your emphasis that there is no “zero” pedagogy. I’m actually a proponent of letting technology drive our X, because I generally think that our X is dated and no longer speaks to the world in which our students operate. I also have your quote “our disciplinary insistence on the printed page, if it persists unchecked, will slowly bring us out of step with our students, our institutions, and the broader culture of which we are a part” hanging on my office door. So, there’s that.

I like bringing in new technologies because they better allow for the kind of spontaneous invention Byron talks about near the end of Counter-History–invention on the part of students and teachers.

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Hey there. I'm Collin Gifford Brooke, and I'm currently an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm a digital humanities person, back from before there was a digital humanities. I wrote a book called Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media, about how new media changes the ways we think about rhetoric and writing and which uses the five canons of rhetoric to think about new media. I'm interested in games, streams, networks, objects, genres, memes, and stuff. Oh, and words. Lots and lots of words.

I started blogging back in 2003, on a site called Collin vs Blog, where I banged out close to a thousand entries over the course of about 5 years. For a few different reasons, I stopped, and after a couple of different false starts, I relocated here, where I'm hoping to pick up some of my old site's momentum, start archiving myself better, and return to writing on a daily basis.