ReVision&ReForm: Teaching Writing Across Borders

An online international symposium hosted by the NYU Expository Writing Program, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the NYU Department of English, October 23-24, 2020

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NYU Shanghai is looking for a writing lecturer, 3year contract: https://t.co/pmvUpy0IHb

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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!

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⚡️ “#revisionandreform NYU2020 Symposium” by @NYU2020ReVision https://t.co/4LjgVXzwjD Check out the record of the conference conversations as they were happening on Twitter!

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

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

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

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#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

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Uncertainty, play and improvisation as valuable pedagogical tools

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[Ken Nielsen @drkennielsen]

And the last panel is on play! May we all remember that any kind of knowledge production is an act of play! Thank you all for playing with us.... @NYU2020ReVision

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#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

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

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@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

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

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#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

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

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@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

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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

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#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.

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