Breakout 05, Panel 02: Transformative Critical Thinking

Permanent URI for this collection

https://hdl.handle.net/10125/46002

Browse

Recent Submissions

Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Item
    (Mis)reading: Teaching Impact vs. Intent in First Year Student Writing
    (Honolulu: 2017 UH First-Year Writing Symposium, 2017-04-08) Striker, Tristan
    This talk will engage the first hallmark, specifically its focus on audience. Misreading, instead of being seen as a bad habit, is embraced in this talk as a teaching moment that exposes students to the importance of impact as it relates to knowing one's audience. Writing for an audience is an opportunity to teach empathy. In this way, writing becomes a praxis of social justice, of what Paolo Freire calls “conscientizacao.”
  • Item
    Beyoncé, Roxane Gay, and Bad Feminism Presentation Notes
    (Honolulu: 2017 UH First-Year Writing Symposium, 2017-04-08) Higa, Jade
    In this teaching demonstration, I will model a shorter version of a lesson that encourages students to practice critical thinking and introduces them to media literacy. In this lesson, I have students watch a Beyoncé musical performance. I then ask students to consider what Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, says about feminism and Beyoncé in her TED talk. We look at our preconceived notions of feminism, and we consider both where we acquire our assumptions about feminism and how Gay complicates those assumptions. In each case, the media plays a major role in how we conceptualize feminism. We discuss why basing our ideas about feminism on what we see in the media is a problem. My ultimate goal in this lesson is to help students begin to question how the media can be used to promote stereotypes and express subliminal messages; in addition, I want them to start thinking about how analyzing media can move our collective thought-process about a topic forward. This lesson engages with the first FW Hallmark because it introduces students to academic discourse. But I would also contend that this lesson demonstrates the importance of critical thinking—which is, I believe, not emphasized enough in the current Hallmarks. This lesson implicitly argues that strong writers are born out of strong critical thinkers and that teaching students how to think critically is an important part of teaching the entire writing process.
  • Item
    Beyoncé, Roxane Gay, and Bad Feminism Presentation
    (Honolulu: 2017 UH First-Year Writing Symposium, 2017-04-08) Higa, Jade
    In this teaching demonstration, I will model a shorter version of a lesson that encourages students to practice critical thinking and introduces them to media literacy. In this lesson, I have students watch a Beyoncé musical performance. I then ask students to consider what Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist, says about feminism and Beyoncé in her TED talk. We look at our preconceived notions of feminism, and we consider both where we acquire our assumptions about feminism and how Gay complicates those assumptions. In each case, the media plays a major role in how we conceptualize feminism. We discuss why basing our ideas about feminism on what we see in the media is a problem. My ultimate goal in this lesson is to help students begin to question how the media can be used to promote stereotypes and express subliminal messages; in addition, I want them to start thinking about how analyzing media can move our collective thought-process about a topic forward. This lesson engages with the first FW Hallmark because it introduces students to academic discourse. But I would also contend that this lesson demonstrates the importance of critical thinking—which is, I believe, not emphasized enough in the current Hallmarks. This lesson implicitly argues that strong writers are born out of strong critical thinkers and that teaching students how to think critically is an important part of teaching the entire writing process.