For this post I decided to use the Armacost library online database. I used the search bar for journals then I scrolled through pages of results. The journal I found was by Nian-Shing Chen and Gwo-Jen Hwang. The topic their topic was educational technology in the classroom. Their research question was educational based gaming was an effective learning style in the classroom. The conducted studies where they used control groups to see how effective the learning style was. Once they conducted their experiments they wrote a paper on their findings which were that there was a significant increase in learning when it came to the educational gaming. They then had to submit their research to a review board in order to possible get it published. This article talked a little more on the review process but none the less they gathered classrooms of students and gave some the educational gaming and others had normal learning styles. In my opinion I think this data gathering would do the job but I could see better ways of doing this. But all in all their research was sound and effective.

Chen, Nian-Shing, and Gwo-Jen Hwang. “Transforming the Classrooms: Innovative Digital   Game-Based Learning Designs and Applications.” Educational Technology Research and Development, vol. 62, no. 2, Dec. 2014, pp. 125–128., doi:10.1007/s11423-014-9332-y.

For this blog post I used google scholar to find Tracing Teachers’ Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture. By Mark Windschitl and Kurt Sahl. These authors tracked how multiple middle school teachers evolved their teaching techniques to include laptop programs. They watched how they integrated them over time and how it affected the productivity of the classroom. The topic was technology in the classroom. This being the lead into the question, as teachers integrate laptop usage into the classroom, how does that change the beliefs, social dynamics, and culture in the classroom. To conduct this research they used and ethnographic approach to examine the changes over time. I personally believe this be an amazing experiment and type of research. They took a very direct and personal approach living the lives of the people they are looking at through ethnography. I would advise my peers to look into people doing ethnographic work because of the interesting things that you may find out while eon the inside.

Windschitl, Mark, and Kurt Sahl. “Tracing Teachers’ Use of Technology in a Laptop Computer School: The Interplay of Teacher Beliefs, Social Dynamics, and Institutional Culture.” American Educational Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 1, 2002, pp. 165–205., doi:10.3102/00028312039001165.

How a Conceptual Framework Shaped a Mixed Methods Study is a piece written by Barbara Brown and Michele Jacobsen. Their study was conducted over a one year span in three different school jurisdictions in a Canadian province. Through the research they discovered that instructors needed more insight into three topics, learning sciences, pedagogies based on knowledge building, and growth oriented leadership. Their topic is that the industrialized models of schooling from the past are not designed to meet the needs of the learners today in the technological age. The research question is, of the three different ways that are being taught across the three schools jurisdictions, is one more beneficial in educating the children from the digital era? The type of data they will need to collect would be quantitative and in-depth interviews as well as expert opinions. The authors used online surveys to get masses of information and they went in and interviewed the principals of the schools for expert opinions. Personally I think this research is credible and well executed. They seem to have gone through all of the obstacles and conducted very through research. I think the online surveys would be a good way to get mass information and might interest classmates who need that type of surveys conducted.

Brown, Barbara, and Michele Jacopbsen. “Principals’ of Technology Leadership, How a Conceptual Framework Shaped a Mixed Methods Study.” Improving School Leadership, 2009.

This weeks journal comes form The Journal of Educational Technology Systems, and the section I chose is by Marion G. Ben-Jacob. In the writing, Jacob discusses the ethical side of the whole internet debates on both the provider and users point of view. Not only is the ethical dilemma looked into but also the problems with regulation and over reaching and conflicting with people’s privacy. This all being the articles topic of how is the use of technology being ethically observed and regulated. The type of data needed would be quantitative and probably best collected through the use of surveys online and maybe some person to person interviews, as well as expert opinions. One data collections that Jacob did was a classroom control group where he has a teacher give definitions and background and gave who supports and disapproves of the topics provided. Then after Jacobs went through and discussed each of the students answers. I think this way of collecting data is very interesting and I am curious to see if it would be effective for my data collection.

Citation:

Ben-Jacob, Marion G. “Internet Ethics for Users and Providers.” Journal of Educational Technology Systems, vol. 46, no. 2, 2017, pp. 252–258.

James H McDonald wrote a journal on how people see technology in an institution of learning. In his research, he investigates if the students in each environment would be more susceptible to asking for help in the less technologically driven classes. He then looks at the students well being as a whole during the lack of, or excess off technology. In addition he then compares the parents responses to their students. In the CoSy system he found that there was a major dropout rate of the students, nearly half quit their schoolings. He asked a series of questions, some being “what is computer literacy” (McDonald, 1993). McDonald went through and surveyed students, although I feel as if expert opinions could have also been a great help to him. In my own opinion I feel as if his research is in need of growth and a little more exmapnsion upon. There is great direction but I feel like there could be some possibilities that are missing and some factors that can be updated since 1993.

McDonald, J. H. (1993), The Interpenetration of Technology and Institution: An Assessment of an Educational Computer Conferencing System. NAPA Bulletin, 12: 49–65. doi:10.1525/napa.1993.12.1.49

Principals’ Technology Leadership, How a Conceptual Framework Shaped a Mixed Methods Study is a piece written by Barbara Brown and Michele Jacobsen. Their study was conducted over a one year span in three different school jurisdictions in a Canadian province. Through the research they discovered that instructors needed more insight into three topics, learning sciences, pedagogies based on knowledge building, and growth oriented leadership. Their topic is that the industrialized models of schooling from the past are not designed to meet the needs of the learners today in the technological age. The research question is, of the three different ways that are being taught across the three schools jurisdictions, is one more beneficial in educating the children from the digital era? The type of data they will need to collect would be quantitative and in-depth interviews as well as expert opinions. The authors used online surveys to get masses of information and they went in and interviewed the principals of the schools for expert opinions. Personally I think this research is credible and well executed. They seem to have gone through all of the obstacles and conducted very through research. I think the online surveys would be a good way to get mass information and might interest classmates who need that type of surveys conducted.

Brown, Barbara, and Michele Jacopbsen. “Principals’ of Technology Leadership, How a Conceptual Framework Shaped a Mixed Methods Study.” Improving School Leadership, 2009.