How to use Remediation in a first year composition course

Based on Bolter and Grusin's argument in Remediation, the implications for a first year composition course resides in making students aware of remediation. Since technology has become an inherent part of today's youth, their culture is embedded with remediation. Many of these students might think that some of the technology is new but in fact is a remediation of the past technology. An interesting assignment for the students would be for them to first, make them aware of remediation. Secondly, have the students choose some form of technology that has a critical, functional, and rhetorical function. And Lastly, have students trace back the particular form of technology to other forms of technology. This type of exercise can allow students to understand that knowledge has always been the same and always will be. However, the medium of how we communicate has changed and learning and understanding these media and their histories will help students understand culture.