I have to admit that I've been falling behind on my blogs in this class. This past week has been CRAZY in my house so writing blogs and completing assignments have taken a back seat to life. Sorry guys! As soon as I get my life in order, which probably might be an eternity, so let me rephrase that or just delete it all together...I'll try to read everyone's wonderful blogs and make comments on them so that you get my opinion alongside with everyone else.
I've learned so much in this class that it's a little difficult to choose what I want to do my research on. Since Dr. Chandler mentioned that most of our students might be freshmen, I would like to do a study on how to properly tutor them or what we consider as younger learners. During our class discussion, we made note of the learning stereotypes between older people and those of our generation. Since younger learners are "tech savy" and seem to alway want the shortcut to the end product, and since our generation of students refuse to listen to anyone older than us because of course, we are definitely smarter than them (SO NOT TRUE!), I would like to conduct research on effective techniques that will get younger students to want to learn and become better writers. Since our job as tutors is not to create better writing, I want to at least find out how to engage them long enough so that they at least care about it.
I haven't really thought much about this since I've been so focused on not getting Lunsford's Garret Center and Storehouse Center concepts mixed up with everyone else so I need a little more time to think. Collaboration is something else that would be interesting to explore since I've never really seen it happen before. It would be great to see something on paper actually come to life!
This probably didn't answer the blog's question but that's what's on my mind right now. I'll have to look into this a lot more and maybe hear a little bit of everyone else's ideas so that I can properly formulate my own.
I've learned so much in this class that it's a little difficult to choose what I want to do my research on. Since Dr. Chandler mentioned that most of our students might be freshmen, I would like to do a study on how to properly tutor them or what we consider as younger learners. During our class discussion, we made note of the learning stereotypes between older people and those of our generation. Since younger learners are "tech savy" and seem to alway want the shortcut to the end product, and since our generation of students refuse to listen to anyone older than us because of course, we are definitely smarter than them (SO NOT TRUE!), I would like to conduct research on effective techniques that will get younger students to want to learn and become better writers. Since our job as tutors is not to create better writing, I want to at least find out how to engage them long enough so that they at least care about it.
I haven't really thought much about this since I've been so focused on not getting Lunsford's Garret Center and Storehouse Center concepts mixed up with everyone else so I need a little more time to think. Collaboration is something else that would be interesting to explore since I've never really seen it happen before. It would be great to see something on paper actually come to life!
This probably didn't answer the blog's question but that's what's on my mind right now. I'll have to look into this a lot more and maybe hear a little bit of everyone else's ideas so that I can properly formulate my own.
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