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Computer-assisted techniques to enhance transformative learning in first-year literature courses
Authors:Marguerite Jamieson  Rebecca Kajs and Anne Agee
Affiliation:(1) Department of English, Anne Arundel Community College, 21012 Arnold, MD, USA
Abstract:When students use computers as learning tools, the whole process of learning, and, indeed, the learners themselves, are transformed. This article illustrates some techniques that foster transformative learning in computer-assisted first-year literature classes: first, a lesson plan on ldquoA Valediction: Forbidding Mourningrdquo that uses Microsoft Word functions, including format painter, tables, and annotation to explore meaning in context; second, a plan for learners to use subconference options in the Daedalus Interactive Writing Environment to analyze Oedipus Rex; finally, a demonstration of how students engage in a meta-reflection process as they explore ldquoBarn Burningrdquo with Freelance Graphics.Marguerite Jamieson is an English instructor at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, and a doctoral student at George Mason University. Her research interests include forming bridges between adult learning theory and contemporary literary theory — especially drawing on transformational learning theory and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky.Rebecca Kajs holds a doctorate in English from Texas Woman's University with a concentration in rhetoric. For ten years, she taught the use of heuristic tools for reading analysis at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is currently an associate professor of English and Philosophy at Anne Arundel Community College.Anne Agee holds a doctorate in rhetoric from The Catholic University of America. A professor of English and formerly director of the Humanities Computer Center at Anne Arundel Community College, she is currently the college's Coordinator of Instructional Technology. Dr. Agee and Professor Jamieson have collaborated in a study of the learning environment in a computer classroom, the results of which were published in the Fall 1995 issue of Teaching/Learning Conversations. Dr. Agee has also published ldquoUsing Daedalus] InterChange as a Teachers' Journalrdquo in the Fall 1995 issue of Wings.
Keywords:computer-assisted instruction  transformative learning  Jack Mezirow  microsoft word applications  Daedalus Interactive Writing Environment  freelance graphics presentations  collaborative learning  community college teaching  teaching literature in a computer-assisted environment
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