At the Maker Faire in Fall 2016 my son and I played with various toys designed to encourage creative making. The most popular toy was the Ozobots, robots designed to teach kids to code using markers and colors. The use of markers to draw lines and codes intrigued me, but my goal is not to teach coding in composition courses. Instead of using the Ozobots as designed, I want students to creatively map theories of writing. Drawing on Judy Wajcman’s technofeminist idea of openness, this webtext discusses how coding robots, specifically Ozobots, provide space for disrupting coded use in meaningful…
Author: Jen England
A Nicole Pfannenstiel
Jen England is an assistant professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, MN, where she teaches a range of courses in professional writing and rhetoric. Her research interests include environmental/sustainability rhetorics, community writing, technofeminism, and game studies.