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Action
Research Literature Review
This is the first assignment for 638 with Dr.
Margaret Reil. You can see my literature
review here.
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Learning Adventure
#1
In 664 Gary Stager challenged us to compose a piece of music
using Finale Note Pad,
a freely-downloadable cross-platform application for composing
sheet music. You can read about my experience composing here.
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Ethics Statement
You can view the ethics
statement that guides my research this year.
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Letter to Parents
Here is a copy of the letter
to parents that will go home with Tech Club participants for
their parents to sign, allowing me to conduct research in Tech
Club.
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Learning Adventure
#2
Gary Stager's latest Learning Adventure question: is
Ned Kelly a hero?
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Framing the Research Problem
An assignment
for Margaret Riel's 638 class. It is exciting to see my Action
Research Project coming to shape.
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Ubiquitous Technology
We are being asked to investigate an ubiquitous technology this
term for Professor Cynthia Solomon's 633 course. I am
investigating the use
of digital still cameras by elementary
school students.
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Learning
Adventure 2.5
Hot on the heels of the Ned Kelly assignment, Gary Stager
wonders, Were
the Chicago 7 martyrs?
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Learning
Adventure 3
This time Gary Stager had us download and play with Celestia,
an open-source application for exploring our universe. Here I write
about my experience working with a student to explore the
program.
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Schools as Nonexpert
Societies
A writing
originally posted on Margaret Riel's 638 Blackboard.
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Learning Adventure #4
Gary Stager had us purchase MicroWorlds EX and use it to
experiment with LOGO programming, about which we have been doing a
considerable amount of reading. I made a turtle
who decorates a piece of a quilt. I'll be crafting more of
these turtles to make other cool designs and more quilt pieces,
too.
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Action
Research Personal Literature Review
This assignment for 638 challenges me to locate and research
articles pertinent to the research questions I developed in my Framing the Research Problem assignment. I
have analysed the articles and considered them in relation to my
own actions in my Action
Research Personal Literature Review.
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Learning
Adventure #5
We were tasked with constructing a wiki that had the top ten
important ideas that we had discussed thus far, to be shared with
the other cadre. You can see the complete wiki here.
I wrote abou the Ned
Kelly Discussion on Blackboard and compliled the arguments.
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Learning
Adventure #6
There was no Learning Adventure #6.
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Learning
Adventure #7
Get out your iPods: Gary's had us create podcasts! Listen while I
regale you with tales
of my diet and Meg and I cook dinner.
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It is about the Laptop
My
reactions to Sydney Papert's 2004 address in Sydney,
Australia, Nicholas Negroponte's TEDTalk about the One Laptop Per
Child Initiative, and the lingering success and failures of the
Apple eMate 300.
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Fab Labs
This is a short
post I wrote in September for Gary's Bb and which I chose to
post here because it does a good job explaining the rationale
behind supplying the Third World with technnology even when many
countries cannot provide adequate infrastructure, food, or
shelter. This relates in part to the arguments about the OLPC.
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Action
Reseach Plan
I am devising my Action
Research Plan for Margaret Riel's ED 638 class.
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Learning
Adventure #8
We took on the Collatz
Conjecture in this Learning Adventure.
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Talking about Reggio Emilia
I had a conversation
with Erik, a teacher with whom I work. He used to work at a
preschool that had partially implemented aspects of the Reggio
Emilia philosophy.
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Learning
Adventure #9
We watched the Seinfeld "Comedian"
movie.
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Adopting the Reggio
Emilia Approach to Documentation
I was very
excited about the possibility of using the Reggio Emilia
approach to documentation to summarize the work with digital
cameras that Tech Club has completed this fall.
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FIRST Lego League
Qualifying Event
I went to the FIRST Lego League Seattle qualifying
event to cheer on the team from Islander Middle School.
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Learning
Adventure #10
I examine a couple of Web
2.0 technologies and reflect upon their place in a program
such as OMET.
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