Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education I thought this was a great TED talk by Sugata Mitra on The child-driven education, so sharing it here for inspiration. What are your thoughts? Sugata Mitra gave a version of this talk at ALT-C 2010. There are blog posts about it here: Agent4Change and here at Steve Wheeler’s blog […]
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Whilst studying for a research degree, don’t forget to register for a Sconul card, which allows you to to use the facilities of your local university library. I have been using Lexis Nexis – a database of new reports including UK national and regional newspapers and major newspapers from around the world. Access is free
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The law relating research with children (legally defined as those under 18 years of age) is not clear but a series of principles are proposed in various available guidance (RCPCh, 2000; DOh, 2001, BMA, 2001; RCN, 2003). Guidance is based on concern for children as potentially vulnerable participants as identified in the ‘Declaration of Helsinki’
Although the research is low-risk, the primary responsibility of the research to the participants crucially underpins any research. This is particularly pertitent when the participants are children. It is not intended that the research should cause distress but this could happen inadvertently and needs to be recognised as a potential ara of risk. Distress can
Grounded theory has been defined as ‘theory that was derived from data, systematically gathered and analyzed through the research process. In this method, data collection, analysis, and eventual theory stand in close relationship to one another’ (Strauss and Corbin, 1998, p.12). Two central strands of grounded theory are that it is concerned with the development
Ardalan et al. (2007) A comparison of student feedback obtained through paper-based and web-based surveys of faculty teaching Summary: This paper looks at the differences in student behaviour and responses between a paper-based and a web-based satisfaction survey. The research looked at the difference between the survey completed online in the Spring against a previous
A journal paper review Effects of four computer-mediated communications channels on trust development Bos et al. (2002) I was fascinated by this paper for lots of reasons. But first I will summarise the paper. Very Brief Summary This paper describes an ‘experiment’ to investigate how four channels of communication affect the development of trust in
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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
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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
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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
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