ReVision&ReForm: Teaching Writing Across Borders

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@balloonleap @sureshcanax By the end of this week, the recordings should be available: we will email everyone who registered with more details!

⚡️ “#revisionandreform NYU2020 Symposium” by @NYU2020ReVision twitter.com/i/events/13198… Check out the record of the conference conversations as they were happening on Twitter!

@drkennielsen #revisionandreform

Such wonderful provocative questions about engaging the student's self in writing classes.... to do or not to do... and the difference between triggering and the pedagogically necessary work of framing.... @NYU2020Revision

#revisionandreform Next up: Closing remarks and discussion. More insights from @sureshcanax and symposium organizers! 2:00-3:00 pm

@rrussellsloan asks: Once we are willing to play and experiment, what possibilities open up for us and our students? #revisionandreform

Play is iterative: @rrussellsloan Iteration is where play becomes practice. You have the capaciousness, the boundlessness that enable students' quest for meaning #revisionandreform

Uncertainty, play and improvisation as valuable pedagogical tools

#revisionandreform @natespoetics and Carlos Burgos are presenting on poetry as an occasion for students to initiate critical inquiry into "real life" issues that are meaningful to them

#revisionandreform @rrussellsloan Playful engagement w/digital tools - a framework of rigorous play - as a way to empower multilingual students to break the many borders that limit and oppress them

#revisionandreform Mara Jebsen, EWP NYU: Having students read as writers helps them become better writers themselves

@ProfBrowPow The job of teachers and administrators is to do a lot more of listening - to student tutors, student writers - their experiences, struggles, and needs #revisionandreform

Great connections to Day 1 panels on silence/silencing, translingual pedagogies, and postcolonial pedagogies! #revisionandreform

#revisionandreform The Social Justice roundtable discussion almost inevitably turned to questions of language & identity: translanguaging, code-meshing, what it means to be monolingual@multilingual. Also difficult questions of being a white prof teaching writing

Do writing tutors have "permission," for example, to tutor in their native language? How would this empower multilingual writers and tutors alike?

@ProfBrowPow When translingualism is a norm, then writing centers can play an empowering role for multilingual students. Challenge: writing centers are liminal spaces with not enough power in academia #revisionandreform

Bell's unit of Race&Space addresses personal and collective racial geographies: to what extent does writing help students articulate racial counter-geographies? Explicitly anti-colorblind assignments challenge divisions between different student populations in NYC neighborhoods

#revisionandreform Sophie Bell on Writing Across Differences with a shout out to @sureshcanax 's key note that examined negotiation of meaning between students and their writing teachers.

#revisionandreform Amy White, CUNY is sharing writing assignment prompts for pre-med students that make them question the border between personal and professional.