1. How would you respond to Tobin’s question that he asks of himself: “how does my relationship to the class as a whole contribute to—or interfere with—my effort to establish a productive relationship with each student?” What teaching experiences in the classroom can you use as anecdotes to answer this question? Or, what approaches can you imagine using with your future students and potential contributions or interferences that may ensue?
2. I am certain my students
will not have ever had a myspace page and I imagine that many of them won’t
even have Facebook. Therefore, I find myself questioning what an argument such
as Arola’s would sound like if using the newer social media platforms as an
examination of students’ design skills such as Instagram, Twitter, or any other
app that are common in 2018. Would it still hold true? Would there be changes?
Have we learned more about coding and applications through these different
social media platforms?
Hi Keri, in response to your second question:
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that newer social media platforms continue to affect the way people view themselves and their relationships with others. Additionally, I have noticed that people seem to be growing more aware of these effects. For example, with Instagram, people joke about it being all about selfies and food and instagram models, and joke that it makes people narcissistic or self-involved. Even though they are using a different vocabulary, they are picking up on the rhetorical impact of the app. The picture-only structure (with just small captions) encourages to an extreme the development of a public image, and the heavy use of filters encourages the transformation of your narrative into a fantasy version of itself.
Laura I agree that there tends to be more awareness as a society about how we interact with these social media platforms and to the extent that we are constructing a social media identity that may or may not resemble our real lives. I sat in my 2135 intern class this morning watching several students bounce from between peer reviewing the first draft of their essays, a personal essay connected to a challenge or struggle they overcame with the help of one particular genre, and scrolling through/posting to Instagram and Snapchat. It was an interesting juxtaposition that I couldn't help but take notice of even if the students weren't even aware of the ways they were in that moment engaging in multiple genres and discourses. There's a 2135 strand dealing with social media that I think is really interesting because it gives students the frame work to interrogate these issues more deeply. In terms of coding and applications on these media platforms so far as I know things have not substantially evolved in terms of allowing users to structure and design the content they would like.
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