Thoughts on technological change and pedagogy It would be careless to post a direct link between technological change and pedagogy, however, trends are in evidence. It might be that as new technology developed, educators looked for ways in which to use it best and developed different teaching/learning strategies and pedagogies to incorporate it. Also people …
Using computer-based text analysis to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods in research on collaborative learning I have been reading: Wegerif, R. and Mercer, N. (1997) ‘Using computer-based text analysis to integrate qualitative and quantitative methods in research on collaborative learning’, Language and Education, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 271–86. The main research question was to …
I’ve been doing some interesting reading on technology timelines today. It’s been interesting to read how future predictions have come true much faster than had originally been anticipated. Other have fallen by the wayside. What’s fascinating is to watch the move from desktop to mobile, and from disc drive to Cloud. The pace of change …
A structured questionnaire is a useful, cheap and quick method to administer across 36 schools and to 50 children. It is a convenient way to collate anonymous data from the sample children. The questionnaire contains a wide variety of question types. It is an appropriate method because systematic and comparable data are needed; which can …