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This is the research project that I found and visited in 2000. Ricki Goldman-Segall is a digital video ethnograhper studing how children learn and think. Her book from 1998 was an inspiration for me and my study pertner, William Vonsild, and with a study grant from our university of education in Copenhagen, we were enabled to visit Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Ricki was very helpful and let us follow her multimedia students' exam projects, and supported our vist to the achool that she had used for her research project about five years earlier, Bayside Middle School. A school built in 1992 with a technology enriched infrastructure, each pod of 10 classrooms had a very well equipped computer lab and the whole building was wired in order to have access to very fast internet connection from anywhere.

Engeström paper from 2001 ABSTRACT Cultural-historical activity theory has evolved through three generations of research. The emerging third generation of activity theory takes two interacting activity systems as its minimal unit of analysis, inviting us to focus research efforts on the challenges and possibilities of inter-organizational learning. Activity theory and its concept of expansive learning are examined.4 questions: 1. Who are the subjects of learning? 2. Why do they learn? 3. What do they learn? 4. How do they learn? Five central principles of activity theory are presented, namely activity system as unit of analysis, multi-voicedness of activity, historicity of activity, contradictions as driving force of change in activity, and expansive cycles as possible form of transformation in activity. Together the questions and principles form a matrix which is used to present a study of expansive learning in a hospital setting in Finland. In conclusion, implications of the framework for our understanding of the increasingly important horizontal dimension of learning are discussed.

The Present and Future of Educational Technology: An Interview with Christopher Dede Christopher Dede Christopher Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University, where he conducts research on "emerging technologies for learning and infusing technology into large-scale educational improvement." He holds a Ph. D. in education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Interview Topics Scientifically rigorous data on educational technology Most effective uses of technology to enhance learning Examples of technology in K-12 education: Simcalc and Biologica Studies that show technology effectiveness and 'the conditions for success' Adapting educational technology for use in the classroom Creating conditions for success and Milwaukee's Curriculum Design Assistant How technology can expand and replace current forms of student-learning assessment Universal design Dede's research on interfaces between people and technology: Milwaukee and Internet 2 The virtual world of "River City" Ubiquitous computing: Innovative uses for handhelds

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world-and why it is so important.

Research Report: Measuring What Matters Most: Choice-Based Assessments for the Digital Age.

Social Networking Goes to School. This blog article is about research on how schools and parents are working togehter, or not). Uses of social network sites like twitter and fb are described - just skimmed but found of interest. (In Denmark, a trend of school intranet has grown for the last few years , still with a very closed and one-way mostly view). Sus

Los Angeles Clinical PhD: A Scholar-Practitioner Program The clinical PhD training program on Alliant's Los Angeles campus is based on a scholar-practitioner model where practice and scholarship receive equal emphasis. The program is based on the principle that clinical psychologists have a responsibility to work to ameliorate psychological suffering and facilitate psychological well-being through both basic and applied research and interventions that evolve from scholarly work relevant to societal needs. An underlying philosophical assumption of the program is that there is a need for innovative scholarship that provides a foundation for the development of interventions to meet the needs of diverse and underserved populations.

This book offers an introduction to actor-network theory for educators to consider in three modes. One mode is the introduction of concepts, approaches and debates around actor-network theory as a research approach in education. Another mode is a showcase of educational studies that have employed ANT approaches in classrooms, workplaces and community settings, drawn from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. These work with ANT in highly diverse ways, often bending and twisting ANT ideas to better approach the educational question at hand whether it focuses on policy critique, curriculum inquiry, engagements with digital media, change and innovation, issues of accountability, or exploring how knowledge unfolds and becomes materialized in various settings

Thank you for sharing this; I just pre-ordered it!!

For those PhD students who are trying to figure out how best to study - to understand and to remember - the research sets aside some common conceptions and offers some new ones. My favorite - which I am trying tonight - is to study the same material in different rooms. Hmmmm Where to study? bedroom?? (dangerous! I will sleep!)

Blended learning is a hybrid of classroom and online learning that includes some of the conveniences of online courses without the complete loss of face-to-face contact. The present study used a causal-comparative design to examine the relationship of sense of community between traditional classroom, blended, and fully online higher education learning environments. Evidence is provided to suggest that blended courses produce a stronger sense of community among students than either traditional or fully online courses.

Mark Warschauer is one of the most knowledgeable in the field of developing online education. His advice on what to share in your Statement of Purpose for a Ph.D program resonates with some insight in what NOT to tell :-) " People who are reading a SOP for Ph.D. programs care about two things: (1) Do you have the potential to be an outstanding scholar? And (2) are your research interests a good match for the Ph.D. program and its faculty? Anything beyond these two things is superflous. Your SOP should thus be directed to getting these two things across. "

The long awaited book where social anthropologist Jean Lave shares her research study from Liberia, of tailor boy apprenticeship (where they learn not from their master directly, but from being inlcuded in everyday chores and observing their peer apprentices, a litte more advanced than themselves). JeanLve spent considerable time on location doing this study. In 2000 she was a guest teacher at the University of Copenhagen where I had the pleasure to follow a dozen lectures. With my study companion's courage, we were allowed to have a one hour long conversation with Jean Lave, planned as an interview but never published, to my regret. The book can be purchased as an e-book for 30 days, at the reasonable price of $6, or full price $27 (same as in print).

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW researchers and practitioners.

Now this looks very interesting and I have always wanted to go to Seattle!

This links goes to the Methods section, but there are phrases for all sections of a proposal/thesis/dissertation.

Another network/community to support doctoral students.

Guldberg, Project Aalborg: Towards a Networked Community_of_Learners_and_Carers An interesting project - in the field of autism pedagogy , Aalborg University

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An easy read about the difference between Positivism and Post-Positivism. Still trying to get my head around all this philosophical stuff.

Hey Barb, I have been on that site many times and it's pretty good. I still have a hard time with those two issues but better now since I have a few classes under my belt. It does take a lot get one's arm around it and I still struggle at times so you are not alone.