Technology Action Research (ISLT9417)
Course Description: Study of concepts associated with action research; and the processes and procedures for conducting action research. Culminating project is the development of an action research project.
Reflection: For my action research I delved into to world of digital writing, designing action research to find out whether the use of a word processor improved the quality of student writing, not only in correctness but in higher order thinking skills. While conducting my literature review I discovered that this question hadn’t been asked very often in recent years. Most studies I found were covering the switch from typewriter to word processors, and I was interested in the move toward GoogleDocs and iPads.
Not only was the research and preparation for my Action Research project informative to my teaching of writing, it also drove home the point to me that I am teaching on the cutting edge of a revolution in the way human beings create and share their writing.
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