{"id":122,"date":"2012-12-14T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:40:44","slug":"whither-digital-pedagog-in-the-graduate-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2012\/12\/14\/whither-digital-pedagog-in-the-graduate-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Whither Digital Pedagogy in the Graduate Seminar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Conference<\/a>Speaking from my own experience in an English department and taking courses in different fields, graduate seminars tend to follow a pretty predictable pattern. Students are assigned to read a primary text\u2014a novel, a volume of poetry, etc.\u2013and one or more secondary texts\u2014articles, chapters from one or more books, or a monograph (although this last one is rare, as Cathy Davidson has discussed<\/a>). The seminar sessions themselves varied on the faculty member. It wasn\u2019t uncommon for the faculty member to walk in and say, \u201cWell, what did you think?\u201d (What did I think about reading the complete Wallace Stevens in one week? Plus two articles? I don\u2019t know. I really don\u2019t.) Others would begin by discussing the secondary texts and then move on to the primary texts. Still others would encourage individual students to take the lead for a portion of the class, either giving an oral presentation or speaking about a paper that he or she had written and distributed ahead of time.<\/p>\n

But if the discussion is around a few texts, around their close reading and their discussion by what can often be very small groups of people, what role is there for digital pedagogy\u2014or even the use of basic tools like a podium computer and a projector? Obviously, one can use these tools for displaying films or images. These are certainly germane to the work and pedagogy of some of the department\u2019s faculty members. And if one is working on electronic literature, then having a computer in the classroom is certainly advantageous. But what else is there?<\/p>\n

I’d like get the collective thought power of our workshop attendees to think through how digital pedagogy could change the teaching of graduate students in the modern languages.<\/p>\n

Lead photo: butcher block conference table<\/a> \/ Brian Yeung<\/a> \/ http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking from my own experience in an English department and taking courses in different fields, graduate seminars tend to follow a pretty predictable pattern. Students are assigned to read a primary text\u2014a novel, a volume of poetry, etc.\u2013and one or more secondary texts\u2014articles, chapters from one or more books, or a monograph (although this last … <\/p>\n

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