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Terry Elliott

Thus Spake Zuska : Good Topics for Future Research - And How You Find Them - 0 views

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research ideas generating

shared by Terry Elliott on 02 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Terry Elliott on 02 Jan 09
     
    After talking with a dozen or so colleagues, he concluded that "filling a gap in the literature" was not really how anyone went about choosing a research problem. There were four main "lessons" he gained from his collegial conversations: * Future research arises from current research. Things are never really finished, and many projects don't work out as we'd planned. All that cleanliness in the literature is misleading! * Future research can be autobiographical. On this one, I'd like to quote the author at length: Research is often "me-search," a friend of mine likes to say. Ideas for research topics can stem from brief personal experiences from childhood or threads that run throughout their professional lives. For example, gender equity in science education has riveted a colleague since she majored in chemistry in college. Another colleague's passion is the give-and-take of arguments, "so I think that's why I'm studying fifth graders' persuasive writing." What "voice" means for minority scholars fascinates an African-American academic who feels that the traditional norms of scholarly discourse stifle her own creativity. For those colleagues, their lives are inspiration, but not evidence -- in other words, they are not autoethnographers. Sometimes a good project arises from family life. A child psychologist extended her work on infant communication when her 14-month-old son was pointing incessantly to the refrigerator. "I'd take one thing out after another, and he finally seemed to find what he wanted," she said. "So I got excited and found three families, studying how kids make their ideas known and how they correct your misconceptions when you're wrong about what they want." * Future research often arises from conversations. You know this one. Have lunch with your colleagues, visit them in their offices, hobnob at conferences. I don't care if you're shy and you don't like talking to people. Get out there and circulate! * Fu
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Orange Crate Art: Search results for hi and lois - 0 views

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reading close

shared by Terry Elliott on 15 May 12 - No Cached
  • Terry Elliott on 15 May 12
     
    Mention by way of saying what i am not meaning when I talk bout close reading.
Terry Elliott

Will I? : The Frontal Cortex - 0 views

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will i academic_workflow systems_thinking

shared by Terry Elliott on 20 Jul 10 - Cached
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      Terry Elliott on 20 Jul 10
       
      Fits kaizen model of small question asking.  Will try with doc work.
  • Can I do this?
  • This suggests that the Nike slogan should be "Just do it?" and not "Just do it".
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  • he power of the "Will I?" condition resides in its ability to elicit intrinsic motivation.
  • Self-posed questions about a future behavior
  • Terry Elliott on 20 Jul 10
     
    Kaizen Classroom.
Terry Elliott

Google Reader - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 30 Dec 08 - Cached
  • 6 Things to Do in 2009 Find a new way to improve someone’s day (and determine if there’s value in it). Synthesize new ideas from outside your audience’s circle (and help us make meaning from them). Promote the great people out there ( and and keep doing it). Learn from brilliant people (and share what you learn). Work on interesting projects that matter to you (and empower others to participate). Discover your passions (and share them openly).
  • The first group of students has decided in advance that something of value might be said, and so they’re on the lookout for those valuable points. The  second group has made the opposite decision; they don’t expect anything said or shown in class to be worth their while, and so they don’t find anything in class worthwhile
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