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Lucy's Application of Maxwell's Research Design
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From this class, I hope to gain a better understanding of how to implement research within the humanities. For the course prior to our current one taught by Kristin, a lot of the research questions were only explored on a theoretical level. Though immensely valuable and an incredibly solid foreground, I now see this current course as an opportunity to take those notions and ideas explored in our literature review and put them into research practice. The thought of conducting my own research is rather intimidating. However, I know that for my dissertation, to be able to write about what I'm interested will require research and a qualitative study. I hope to feel comfortable and somewhat familiar in understanding and doing research within the humanities by the time the course is over. I'm very excited that all of my classmates have also taken Kristin's class and that we ar a small class, as I believe it will provide a place for rich discussion.
I agree, Lucy. This class seems like it will provide a solid foundation to the field that will prove valuable later on. In concern with the research you've already performed, do you agree with the article, specifically the notion that the progress of the research revolves around the questions? What topic do you want to investigate this semester? I'm excited to be in class with you again this semester!
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Wow. I am to understand that you created the Youtube video? It is amazing. It brings up a question that I have about such documents: where is the attribution to the author (you?). I am wondering about attribution in general with technology. How would one cite that youtube if there is no clear author page? Or, was the author page hiding behind one of the many advertisements that kept popping up and obscuring my view of the video?
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I am still wondering about the argument that because technology is insidious, we have to use it in school. I agree that if we use it, we must use it critically, but I am also a fan of the Neil Postman's argument that teaching should be a "thermostatic activity." I am not a 100% proponent of this idea, but I find it intriguing. Postman's point, is that school shouldn't necessarily train a public, but challenge the status quo. His use of the thermostatic metaphor (from his 1984 book Teaching as A Conserving Activity), is to say that school might be best serving a public if it provides a counterbalance to culture rather than feed it. In this argument, when culture is moving at break-neck speed, education would slow us down and have us focus on the thing the culture was not valuing. In the same vein, if the culture was slow and stagnant, school would rev thing up. Just sayin......... I am looking forward to our class discussions.
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Deleteways to cite youtube videos etc
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http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2011/10/how-to-create-a-reference-for-a-youtube-video.html
I am really excited by what you have already included here in your Prezi. You're right when you say that there are certainly overlaps between both of our projects in the sense that we seem to be putting more critical weight on the practical and ethical value of employing students' existing literacies--digital or otherwise--as well as what it means to even assume that digital literacy itself is a stable conceptual framework to work from. Your reference to your own indeterminate position in between the poles of "digital natives" and "digital immigrants" is important in this sense, because it suggests that these sorts of conversations ought to be more nuanced and personalized in extending these terms to students in the classroom and the projects they engage with during first-year composition. Though I have yet to read it, I think John Scenters-Zapico's "Los Puentes Stories: The Rhetorical Realities of Electronic Literacy Sponsors and Gateways on the U.S.-Mexico Border from 1920-1921," in Baca and Villanueva's Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, might be useful in terms of providing more of a foundation and vocabulary for discussing the socio-economic and geo-political implications of digital literacies. Thank you so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHi Lucy, great work. Your sketch of the 5 questions gives you a solid place to start and flexibility to hone in the research as the semester goes on. In your main question it will be key to expand the notion of "help" in what ways? to what ends? and are we assuming minority students need "help" or more of it?
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