Main Pedagogical Ideas |
Selber's pedagogical camp-- |
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| Stuart Selber is an avid proponent of the use of computers in the composition classroom. | |
| The problem as Selber sees it-- | |
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Selber claims that many universities are encouraging students to learn to use computers through their digital literacy initiative. However these students are encouraged to only learn how to use the computer, and, for the most part, in a decontextualized way. |
| Selber's suggestion towards a solution-- | |
| He believes that what is needed is a 'post critical' stance towards technology in the classroom. The theory behind a post critical stance he takes from combining the scholarship of Stanley Aronowitz on the impact of computers in the lives of working professionals, with the research of Patricia Sullivan and James Porter on critical research practices. This | |
| The practical application of that suggestion-- | |
| A multiliteracy approach. An ideal multiliterate student would be someone who was familiar with Selber's three main digital literacies--functional, critical, and rhetorical--and would be skilled at moving among them in strategic ways | |
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