Action Research
Hackademics
Calendar props to: Nick, Dillon, etc.
Links below courtesy of Babette:
How do we measure distributed cognition?
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2405146/Zhang-Distributed-Cognition-Representation-and-Affordance
What is cognition?
http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/cogpsych.htm
What is cognitive psychology?
http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/f/cogpsych.htm
What is distributed cognition?
http://www.learning-theories.com/distributed-cognition-dcog.html
What importance was the work of Jean Piaget?
What is constructivism?
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
What is constructivism and cognition? How are they linked?
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/constr.htm
http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/cognitiv.htm
TO DO for EDC 638a
Week 1: July 26-Aug 1 What is action research?
Read: Chapters 1-3 Coghlan & Brannick; (Doing Action Research)
Read: Chapter 1 McNiff, Lomax & Whitehead (Your and Your Action Research Project)
Read: McNiff & Whitehead Parts 1 & 2. (All You Need to Know About Action Research)
for those that are lost… To do your action research blog, follow these steps
1. go to https://sakai.pepperdine.edu/portal/
2. sign in
3. There will be tabs. They say My Workplace/ c-13 of 12 / oceans 12 / edc 638A.20 / edc 641.20
4. click on your Cohort
5. look for the blue tabs under the workplace tab.
6. click on blogs. it’s under chat room and above wiki
7. write in your blog
Things TO DO before Thursday. Links to the PDF versions of the articles are provided:
1) The Chris Dede Articles (part 1 and 2)
Part 1 http://files.me.com/fabiolatorres/82clwe
Part 2 http://files.me.com/fabiolatorres/xzpfah
2) Handbook of Emerging Technologies
http://files.me.com/fabiolatorres/svnx5i
3) The National Technology Plan
http://files.me.com/fabiolatorres/qrnyk9
4) The Distributed Cognition Entries for the WIKIPEDIA
http://files.me.com/fabiolatorres/sm2zx3
DOWN THE LINE:
Edc 638a Schedule of Class Meetings, Readings, and Activities:
AUGUST COURSE- 2 TI meetings on Tuesday
Week 1: July 26-Aug1 What is action research?
Week 1: July 26-Aug 1 What is action research?
Read: Chapters 1-3 Coghlan & Brannick;
Read: Chapter 1 McNiff, Lomax & Whitehead
Read: McNiff & Whitehead Parts 1 & 2.
Explore the CCAR site.
Forum discussion: What is action research and how it’s different from other
research?
No synchronous session.
Week 2: Aug 2- Aug 8 Description of your Field of Action
Read: Chapters 4-5 Coghlan & Brannick;
Chapter 2-3 McNiff, Lomax & Whitehead
Parts 3 & 4 of All you need to know about action research
Activity: Post your Action Research planning on your AR Website
Chat Meeting August 4 (6:00pm or 9:00 pm) Discussion of action research
Week 3: Aug 9-15 Reflective Writing and Journaling
Read: Chapters 7 Coghlan & Brannick;
Read parts 5 and 6 in All you need to know about action research
Read through the exercises in Coghlan & Brannick at the end of Chapter 3:
Exercise 3.1-3.3 Keeping a journal, Developing inquiry skills, and The
Learning Window. The first one suggests materials for your journal since you
do not have an action research topic. The second one is a process that you
might experiment with in your learning circles as you develop your action
research. The third is an idea that you might save for working with people
at your workplace.
No Synch Meeting. Discuss AR journaling in forums.
Activity: Start an Action Research Journal.
Week 4: Aug 16-22 Ethical Issues and Informed Consent Tutorials
Read: Chapter 4-5 in Mcniff, Lomax & Whitehead
Read: Chapter 6 in Coghlan and Brannick.
Activity: Explore Two online ethics tutorials
Chat: August 17 (6:00pm or 9:00pm) Ethical issues and force field analysis
Week 5: Aug 23-29 Force Field Analysis Coghlan & Brannick p 79 (forum discussion)
Read: Chapter 6 Coghlan & Brannick
Read: part 7 in All you need to know about action research
Discuss Force Field Analysis in forums
Activity: Begin to gather research for the literature review next semester
