R0MILL01@ULKYVX.BITNET (Robert Delius Royar) (11/19/90)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
LITERATURE, COMPUTERS AND WRITING: THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING IN THE
HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ENGLISH CLASSROOM
April 19,1991
The fourth annual Computers and English Conference for high school
and college teachers of writing
Sponsored by the Program in English
New York Institute of Technology
The 1991 conference on Literature, Computers and Writing will focus on the
shared challenges high school and college English teachers face teaching
literature and composition in a computer environment.
The conference has two primary lines of inquiry:
* how are the English studies canon and curriculum changing in response to
computerized learning?
* how should we design projects for collaborative learning in literature,
computers and writing between high schools or between high schools and
colleges to share pedagogical resources and methods?
In addition to keynote addresses the conference supports presentations which
can be either demonstrations of exercises (no longer than five minutes) that
work well in the English classroom or arguments (ten to fifteen minutes long)
that explain or justify a philosophy or method for a particular classroom
practice. Please submit a brief abstract detailing your demonstration or
argument. Panel discussions are also welcome. Be sure to include your name,
high school or college affiliation, address, and daytime phone number.
Suggested Topics:
1. How can computers develop more active readers of literature?
2. How can teaching writing teach literature?
3. How can we use computers to teach literary genre or metaphor?
4. How can we use computers to connect writing to literature?
5. How do computers widen or narrow the concept of literature?
6. How can we use computers to teach the role of audience in literature
and writing?
7. How can rhetoric inform the experience of hypermedia?
8. How can speech-act theory apply to hypermedia?
9. How will hypermedia affect the student's understanding of critical
consensus?
10. How do computer-based research projects affect students'
conception of literary research?
11. How do computers in writing and literature classes change the role
of the teacher?
12. How can we use computers to connect high school teachers to high
school teachers and/or college teachers?
13. What resources are available to facilitate high school-to-high
school and college-to-high school collaboration?
14. How can student collaborative writing, network writing, or talk-writing, b
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integrated into a literature class?
Dates for Submission of Proposals
The submission deadline is February 15, 1991. Notification of acceptance is
March 10, 1991.
Send proposals and requests for information to
Department of English
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, New York 11568
Attn: Ann McLaughlin (516) 686-7557
or
r0mill01@ulkyvx.bitnet
72347.2767@compuserve.com
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