1. Makers
in the Writing Classroom
CCR 711 ::: 12/5/13
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2. What’s the takeway for
our own contexts?
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3. Jana:
What does it mean to make with
materials/objects (digital or not)?
Not as hobby, but earnest practice,
invention, awareness (mindfulness, or
maybe materialness), curiosity,
potential.
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4. Jana:
What I value from it is potential – potential in people
viewing themselves as designers/inventors/tinkerers, in
curiosity, in attention to materials, in agency (human
and nonhuman), in how we conceptualize tools, and in
envisioning spaces of opportunity. While my interest as
a scholar and teacher is not so much on the emphasis
of manufacturing and entrepreneurship, I find value in
imagining possibility, and at a different scale, adopting
this (maybe my students aren’t making robots that can
execute oratory hand gestures of classical rhetors but
Twitter bots that re-mediate rhetorical tropes and
composition commonplaces we discuss in class).
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5. crowdsourcing
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