This week three of us seemed to see the first question Dr. Graham posted and not notice there was any change to it, and three answered the second question that Dr. Graham posed. I was one of the three that saw the first question, so I researched how I would use action research in the classroom to evaluate technology. Action research is about incorporating the participants into the research and not just researching them. I think this is a great method of research because it allows us to get to know our participants (students) better in the process. I think this can only have valuable benefits, even if our research was to fail, we would get to know our students better, and I think that would help us teach them as the year continues.
While we answered different questions this week, I felt like I got to learn double the amount. I got to learn about using action research to evaluate technology, but through reading the blogs of those who answered the question about what we will have to do and know in order to begin our research in our classrooms, I learned a lot about that as well. I may have not done the individual research, but we all read the same chapters in the books, so we still have a common basis to work off of, so I don’t really feel as though I lost anything by answering a different question.
This week I started finding sources for my literature review and it’s a bit overwhelming. I think right now I have 47 sources to look through, I haven’t read them, just the abstracts and printed them off. Now I will go back through and read the abstracts again and begin to dwindle down my sources, because I feel as though 47 may be a bit too many for this project, but I figure it’s better to have too many than not enough and have to go back to that part of the process again. At first it was a bit overwhelming thinking about our proposal being due in two weeks, but as the week went on and I researched the different elements of a proposal and how to write them and talked to some different colleagues about it, the fear has subsided a little bit.
The question I am considering for research is: “How does relationship building in a flipped classroom affect student grades?”
While we answered different questions this week, I felt like I got to learn double the amount. I got to learn about using action research to evaluate technology, but through reading the blogs of those who answered the question about what we will have to do and know in order to begin our research in our classrooms, I learned a lot about that as well. I may have not done the individual research, but we all read the same chapters in the books, so we still have a common basis to work off of, so I don’t really feel as though I lost anything by answering a different question.
This week I started finding sources for my literature review and it’s a bit overwhelming. I think right now I have 47 sources to look through, I haven’t read them, just the abstracts and printed them off. Now I will go back through and read the abstracts again and begin to dwindle down my sources, because I feel as though 47 may be a bit too many for this project, but I figure it’s better to have too many than not enough and have to go back to that part of the process again. At first it was a bit overwhelming thinking about our proposal being due in two weeks, but as the week went on and I researched the different elements of a proposal and how to write them and talked to some different colleagues about it, the fear has subsided a little bit.
The question I am considering for research is: “How does relationship building in a flipped classroom affect student grades?”