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[Technology Habitat] Important: Your Research Paper is Due @ the End of this Trail
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| Welcome! | This first sections deals with the latest innovations in technology. | |
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The problem
of the Information Era
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Some people view technology as a problem, rather than an opportunity. Yet, Social, cultural, technological, scientific, and economic revolutions in the information-era call for corresponding transformations in education. However, the scientific research that could advance educational change is expanding at such a high degree that it is impossible for specialists to keep abreast and for leaders to make data-driven decisions. Information continues to overwhelm the academic model of synthesis, peer review, and representation. On the individual level, the resulting cognitive overload undermines critical analysis. Moreover, centuries of philosophy, research, debate, collaboration, policy-statements and initiatives aimed at transforming learning and teaching have failed to significantly reform public education. Mainstream education systemically perpetuates the instructional practices and environments that an overwhelming amount of qualitative and quantitative research discredits. Despite massive economic and personal investment, educational reform has failed, leaving informed stakeholders dispirited. |
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For the Threaded Discussion
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To solve problems, it helps to ask good questions: Taking these modern-era conditions into consideration what are the best models to track and represent essential knowledge about learning and teaching; and how do we effectively overcome the physical, emotional, intellectual, and philosophical barriers to restructuring the interaction of teachers and students? the content they negotiate? and the environments in which these transactions occur? Post your solution to the thread. |
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The possibilites
according to Educational Computing expert Seymour Pappert
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I think computers now have a more dramatic effect in math and science. But ultimately it opens up huge new ideas and possibilities. For example, being able to publish changes your relationship to writing. Desktop publishing, Web publishing, gives you openings into how kids might see literature in the future. Greater use by kids of literature as a model of how they themselves might create, write and express themselves -- it helps them formulate their ideas and sensitivities. Authorship is the great promise of computer technology, especially computer networks. It gives voice to people who in the past were socially constrained not to speak. | |
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What's
Due at the End of This Trail?
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A Review of Assignments Due at the End of the Course--at the end of Trail 9) | |
| 1 | Design a teacher research project in which an instructional innovation identified through the course of compiling the annotated bibliography is implemented in the students' classrooms and the results of this study are documented and evaluated. Students who do not have access to a middle or high school classroom may instead conduct a thorough review of the literature on a problem in English/language arts and a suitable design for a classroom research project addressing the problem. The Sagor text will help you with all of the research steps: Problem formation, data collection, data analysis, reporting or results, action planning. | |
| 2 | Write an article suitable for publication in a practitioner journal (e.g., English Journal, North Carolina English, etc.) describing the teacher-research project and its results for an audience of classroom teachers. | |
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Report the results of the research project on your personal 6510 web page.What should the Web Page Include? Your first & last Name E-mail address Picture of you (optional) Your personality score, including a brief description of how well this personality designation fits you, and why. A link from your main web page ("homepage") to a separate page that you call Research Chart. On the research chart page, write the following list of terms in a single column and fill in the list as the Sagor Text advises:
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