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+ GCRD 6353 Teachers as Informed Consumers of Educational Research Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel [email protected] & [email protected]

Teachers as Consumers of Educational Research

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Here is the ppt for our first meeting together in Halifax (Summer I, 2012).

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GCRD 6353Teachers as Informed Consumers of Educational Research

Colin Lankshear & Michele [email protected] & [email protected]

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+Research as systematic inquiry

p. 29 of your textbook

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+Relationship of Research Logic to Evaluation TemplateContext of study (purpose,

question, problem area, relevant other research)

Framework (theory and concepts)

Design and methodology

The evaluative template (Appendix 1 in your syllabus)

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+Tasks for today

Forming work groups (teams) & sending names and email addresses to Michele & Colin

Kitting up (key resources for the semester)

Becoming familiar with the evaluative template

Practising with the template in work groups using the Gainer article we’ve supplied

Locating a literacy research-based paper to critique (that all members of a group can “relate to”)

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+Forming work groups

Ideally 4-6 members

Likely to share some common interest to help with article selection

Likely to be able to work together online and offline and contribute equally to the final analytic paper

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+Kitting up

Using Google Docs to write collaboratively (http://docs.google.com )

Using the internet to communicate between meetings (e.g., www.skype.com or messenger/chat, blog, Twitter, email)

Resources for finding a suitable article (e.g., http://scholar.google.com ; MSVU online article archives)

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+Using Google Docs

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+Google Docs (cont.)

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+Google Docs (cont.)

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+Google Docs (cont.)

Title your document here

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+Google docs (cont.)

Share your Google Docs with Colin and Michele:

colin.lankshear@gmailcom

[email protected]

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+Using Scholar Google as a meta-search engine

Select “Scholar

Preferences”

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+Scholar Google (cont.)

Write out uni name in full

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+Scholar Google (cont.)

Place check

mark in box

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+Scholar Google (cont.)

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+Critiquing Gainer article

In groups, work through the Gainer article, using the analytic template found in Appendix 1 of your syllabus to guide your evaluation

Discuss as a whole group

This is a sampling of the kind of process you’ll go through for writing your final paper

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+Finding a focus articleThe article must be relevant to literacy

studies.

The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally published research article.

Ideally published within the past 5 years.

You need to be truly interested in the focus of the article. Focus must be good and “meaty”

The focus of your article needs to have a prior history of research – be part of a research area or field

Your final paper must engage with debates, present an argument, and include critique (your group needs to take a theorised position and you’ll be reading well beyond your focus article)

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+Course website & additional resources

https://sites.google.com/site/ourmsvupages/halifax-2012-

consumers

There are 3 examples of final papers posted here.