What the Tech? Meeting Our Students Where They Are So We Can Lead Them Where We Want Them to Be

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Melissa Scholes Young, American University, Washington D.C.
Caron Martinez, American University, Washington D.C.

Location

Room 1005

Proposal

See presentation description.

Short Description

In our presentation, we hope to accomplish the following: 1. To recalibrate prevalent assumptions about the technological skills, literacies, and needs of composition students in light of new educational research. 2. To introduce the combined importance of media literacy, transliteracy, and information literacy in the context of composition. 3. To suggest the educational potential of Facebook not only in supporting collaborative research and response, but also in developing students’ sense of public/private discourse and in furthering new higher education goals of lifelong digital citizenship.

Keywords

Technological skills, Technological literacy, Writing and composition, Media literacy, Public discourse, Private discourse, Digital citizenship, Facebook, Information literacy

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Young, Melissa Scholes and Martinez, Caron, "What the Tech? Meeting Our Students Where They Are So We Can Lead Them Where We Want Them to Be" (2012). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 65.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2012/2012/65