Sunday, February 27, 2011
Using blogs in education
Blogs can bring more collaboration between educators. Using blogs effectively can bring ideas from other educators across the country. Early in education it took much longer to communicate effective teaching practices or solutions in education to others. Now with educators posting results of their action research projects anyone can access them and use them for the benefit of their school or classroom.
Action Research and How I Can Use It
Action research is an effective tool for analyzing and bringing about positive change within a school. If implemented correctly it involves everyone within the school, which means specific needs are being met. From my point of view of being a teacher I see individual problems that many wont see or can't see due to my position and my view point. If I am using traditional research to attack these problems, I may be missing critical elements that are unique to my classroom or school. Also through collaboration I have been able to talk through issues that I would have not been able to solve as quickly without others input.
My action research is dealing with the effectiveness of technology and test scores within my school. I will need to utilize my administration and my colleagues to help me evaluate issues and look into why technology and its use has a positive correlation on student engagement and learning. I can also use my classroom as part of the research since I use technology and can immediately see the effectiveness of my implementation of it. The best ideas for why technology works may have not been discovered yet, which makes this project interesting for me because I may discover some new information that my entire school can use.
Action research will also push me to be more reflective and active in my classroom as I analyze different student data pertaining to their use of technology. This project carries some difficulties in how I am going to isolate certain variables so I can tie student gains directly to the technology being used. I know through collaborating with my principal and colleagues we can come up with some ideas to test how effective technology is in the classroom.
My action research is dealing with the effectiveness of technology and test scores within my school. I will need to utilize my administration and my colleagues to help me evaluate issues and look into why technology and its use has a positive correlation on student engagement and learning. I can also use my classroom as part of the research since I use technology and can immediately see the effectiveness of my implementation of it. The best ideas for why technology works may have not been discovered yet, which makes this project interesting for me because I may discover some new information that my entire school can use.
Action research will also push me to be more reflective and active in my classroom as I analyze different student data pertaining to their use of technology. This project carries some difficulties in how I am going to isolate certain variables so I can tie student gains directly to the technology being used. I know through collaborating with my principal and colleagues we can come up with some ideas to test how effective technology is in the classroom.
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