Here's a quick sense of what you will be asked to do:

• The first analytic response paper will ask you to reflect on your teaching.
• The second will ask you to examine Ways of Reading as a text.
• The third will ask you to evaluate the technologies used in this class.

Details on online writing assignments (forum posting / journal entries) are available on the technologies page of this site. The focus of the final paper will be of your own choosing.

Analytic Response Paper One
Draft Due: 9/22
Paper Due: 9/29

Write an essay in which you critically reflect on your teaching. Your essay should be 3-5 pages and engage at least one of the assigned readings from this course. Bring a draft for the 9/22 workshop. The final revision is due 9/29.

Analytic Response Paper Two
Draft Due: 10/27
Paper Due: 11/3

The goal of this assignment is to give your practice in deploying the various critical concepts we've explored in class to aspects of your teaching and learning experiences. In class, we often ground our discussions of theory in praxis (e.g. by discussing essays about group work and then working in groups to form group work assignments); in this paper you need to apply theory to a higher, more conceptual, level of your experience. There are two options for this paper:

1. Write a paper in which you critically analyze Ways of Reading as a text. Take into account the readings but perhaps even moreso the editorial and pedagogical apparatus that surrounds the readings.
   
   Does the text support its own pedagogical claims? How do the theorists we've read support the praxis of this text? Or, do those theorists expose the limits of Ways of Reading? If so, in which ways?
   
2. Write a paper in which you critically analyze the technologies we have used in support of this class.
   
   Do any of the theorists we've read, particularly the ones writing classroom practices, explain the success or failure of one of the technologies used in our class? Does one of the technologies of the class, in its success or failure, complicate ideas about teaching and learning in the classroom proposed by the authors we've read?