Untangling the Ecological Knots

In order to avoid repeating the patterns of past failed technology initiatives, eschew various types of paralyzing blame cultures, capitalize on the momentum offered by outside stakeholder interest, and maintain the agency to stay consistent with our own techno-theories and pedagogies, this study develops a model writing program administrators (WPAs) can utilize in order to create sustainable programmatic technology inclusion (SPTI) in their First Year Composition (FYC) programs. In order to achieve this, this study uses a national survey of FYC stakeholders and interviews and focus groups with FYC directors, instructors, and students at three different institutional types to explore the comprehensiveness and usefulness of Dickie Selfe's framework of a three-step process and three additional complications from Sustainable Computer Environments. The findings from this research are then paired with Kristie Fleckenstein et al.'s "ecology of mind" from "A Portable Ecology" to create a sustainability-focused constellation of interrelated and interdependent ecologies that can serve as a model for WPAs to embed in their own institutional contexts and employ in their FYC programs.