WPA: Learning Communities

Questions raised on WPA:

A teacher suggests that we create a group definition through collaboration with other writing teachers (not necessarily online). What kind of group definition are we creating with the online practices and pedagogies we attempt to share?
Is the sharing helping to grow and improve our practice, or is the growth and improved practice building the shared discourse?
What has primacy/priority?
Johannes Cronje: A supportive online community ...

Nick Carbone: Sharing will help both practice and discourse; discourse is the language that describes and theorizes and expands upon practice...

Daphne Desser: I think practice sharing works to create new knowledge which makes discourse possible

Greg Beatty: We are not yet creating a fully shared definition...

Dan Butcher:  "Best practices" come from ... the sharing ...

Will Hochman: List life is only one of the collaborative energies that teaching with tech engenders...

Ben Reynolds: The sharing of practices, whether online or off, is a process of validation and correction ...

Fred Kemp: The "group" will eventually define itself by what it determines is demonstrably successful behavior ...

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