"Me/We": Building an Embodied Writing Classroom for Socially Networked, Socially Distracted Basic Wr...

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Beteiligte: Bryant, Kendra N.
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 32, 2013, 2, S. 51-79
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City University of New York
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Umfang: 51-79
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>This article addresses the premise that twenty-first century millennial students have difficulty forming personal relationship with teachers, classmates, and within learning communities partly because their attachments to online social networking sites distract them from being present to physical classroom spaces. As a result, academic proficiencies may suffer as engagement with peers and others is curtailed. The author discusses an approach to a writing classroom that seeks to bridge students' attraction to online social networking with more relational, face-to-face classroom encounters, building a pedagogyof the embodied classroom that, as Janet Emig argues, ensures students' personal development and community-building.</p>