Re: More hands up

Katherine Goff (Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu)
Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:34:33 -0700

i am, even now as i write, sitting in an elementary school computer lab
while a room full of fourth graders are coaching each other on their
keyboarding skills.during the day i work with kindergarten through fifth
grade children and their teachers as they learn computer skills in school.

i am a doctoral student and just passed my comps (hurrah!) and am
interested in identity, gender(how not?), and learning around computer
use.

my research is/will be on voice and how computers constrain children's
development of voice. or maybe it would be better to say it is/will be on
how children develop their own voices within the constraints of the school
computer-using system. or it is/will be on how i develop my voice within
the constraints of the academic/research institution. or it is/will be on
how i participate/influence/constrain my students' practices of voicing
their identities with/around computers.

so, i guess i am the typical, confusing, confused doctoral student.
my participation in xmca has mostly been peripheral, but i learn a lot
from the fringes. always have.

kathie

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