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Education & politics in Maine: is it the iPad? Kudos to the Auburn School Department: for searching out potential solutions to increase student literacy.for designing a comprehensive roll-out plan & feedback-system beyond the purchase of iPads.for sharing research and findings with the world. Articles and blog posts around the web have headlines that suggest that the iPad is improving Maine’s literacy scores. These articles reference a Feb 15, 2012 Press Release from the Auburn School Department titled Kindergarten iPad Program sees Positive Results. This press release, in turn, references a Research Summary titled Emerging Results From The Nation’s First Kindergarten Implementation of iPad.

The Research Summary presents some early findings from a 1-to-1 Kindergarten iPad implementation. What changed? Researchers note “improvement on the Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words (HRSIW) assessment, which measures a child’s level of phonemic awareness and ability to represent sounds with letters.” ,” Dr. What didn’t change? Dr. JTE v9n1 - Choosing Qualitative Research: A Primer for Technology Education Researchers. A number of writers have commented on the dearth of substantive research within the field of technology education, and point to the expansion of its research agenda as a means of strengthening the discipline. Waetjen, in his call for good research in technology education, states that "the plea is to use experimental type research as much as possible" (1992, p. 30).

Interestingly, the three areas of research need outlined in his essay would all lend themselves to alternative methodologies, including qualitative methodologies. More recently, others have called for an expansion in the types of research methods used. Of the 220 reports included in Zuga's review of technology education-related research (1994), only 16 are identified as having used qualitative methods, and Zuga notes that many of those studies were conducted outside the United States. This sentiment echoes that of an earlier writer. 1. Theoretical sensitivity refers to a personal quality of the researcher. 1. Figure 1. EdTech Researcher. The State of Wiki Usage in U.S. K–12 Schools. Leveraging Web 2.0 Data Warehouses to Assess Quality and Equity in Online Learning Environments Abstract To document wiki usage in U.S. K–12 settings, this study examined a representative sample drawn from a population of nearly 180,000 wikis.

The authors measured the opportunities wikis provide for students to develop 21st-century skills such as expert thinking, complex communication, and new media literacy. The authors found four types of wiki usage: (a) trial wikis and teacher resource-sharing sites (40%), (b) teacher content-delivery sites (34%), (c) individual student assignments and portfolios (25%), and (d) collaborative student presentations and workspaces (1%). Wikis created in schools serving low-income students have fewer opportunities for 21st-century skill development and shorter lifetimes than wikis from schools serving affluent students.

Web 2.0 tools have made inroads into the U.S. education system as well. How then, can these new technologies be used in classrooms? Teacher: The National Education Magazine - iPads: Transferring or Transforming Education? (Humanities & Social Sciences Collection) Help | Login Welcome: Guest User Search Titles Databases Publication Type Subjects Publishers All Journals Books Conferences Reports Report Series Databases in use: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Change databases Text size Back to Table of Contents Citation Save Print Email Citation only More information about this publication. Teacher: The National Education Magazine Issue Apr 2011 (2011) iPads: Transferring or Transforming Education? Brice, Adam 1 Full Text PDF (Buy Now - AU$33.00) (174kb) Brice, Adam. iPads: Transferring or Transforming Education?

Personal Author: Brice, Adam Source: Teacher: The National Education Magazine, Apr 2011, 2011: 30-32 Document Type: Journal Article Subject: iPad (Computer) ; Educational technology ; Education -- Computer-assisted instruction ; Technological literacy ; Portable computers Affiliation: (1) Assistant Principal, Ringwood North PS Database: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Add more terms Clear search Search hints Manage Search History Manage Alerts Peer Reviewed About.