I could not seem to post to one of my student's blogs, so I am responding to her April 14 post here.

Her commentary on Jeff Rice's blog made me think about Cynthia Selfe's argument in the piece that Trevor asked us to read: "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" from Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies

She states that the Internet got promoted (or misunderstood) as a place that would foster raceless, genderless communication (Not that going raceless or genderless is necessarily a good thing -- see Alice Walker's "My Father's Country is the Poor" - but that is a topic for another post).

Back to Selfe's argument: she states that despite the potential for the internet to subvert or even overthrow racist and sexist attitudes that persist in our culture, all the internet has done is market the same old prejudice, "replicate processes already in circulation," as Rice would say.

One final comment to my student: You are wise and brave to ask "You Talkin' to me?" We all need to be asking that about all of the pedagogies we try and come up with the things that we can really get behind and not the coolest fad. I fully accept that several (many?) of your classmates will never teach using blogs, but I want them to try it and be able to articulate why not. So you are right to ask, Christina, but you are also right to try it out.