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Calendar below gives access to the readings and web discussion each week.
We look forward to your contributions. You can also access the readings
by clicking on the link "Readings" for the appropriate year
on the left menu.
The
2006 Reading Group discussions are held on ILET Google Groups.
To start participating, please go to http://groups.google.com/group/ilet2006.
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| Week |
Weekly
Activity |
Readings
& Resources |
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Oct 1 |
'Warm
Up' activities:
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Article: Davis, N.E. &
Karpati, A. (2005). What
works and what does not? ICT and education research revisited.
Proceedings of the World Conference on Computers and Education,
Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2005. Birmingham. Published by
Chapman Hall.
Discussion Forum: ILET
Google Groups |
| Oct
10 |
Planning
What
should go into our comprehensive synthesis on research into information
technology in education’? - add your view in the online
discussion. |
Proposed Journal:
Education
and Infromation Technologies. The Official Journal of
the IFIP Technical Committee on Education
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| Oct
17 |
Share
literature reviews
- Find
& discuss a relevant balanced literature review (post the
reference in APA style with web link, if possible).
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Comment on other students’ contributions.
Note:
You do not have to write a literature review. Simply locate and
discuss one you find relevant to the reading group topic.
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Exemplars
of well-designed literature reviews:
BECTa (2003a) ImpaCT2
Learning at home and school: Case studies. ICT in schools
research and evaluation series, No. 8. British Educational Communications
and Technology Agency: Coventry, United Kingdom.
Torgerson C., & Zhu D. (November, 2003) A
systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of ICT
on literacy learning in English, EPPI Review, 5-16. |
| Oct
24 |
Analysis
- Join
in our online discussion to identify themes and design our approach
for a new synthesis.
- Volunteer
to draft one piece (alone or collaboratively).
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| Oct
31 |
Drafting
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Write and post your draft piece (alone or collaboratively)
- Comment
on other authors’ pieces.
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| Nov
10 |
Review
- Dr
Davis & Rema Nilakanta will revise the joint writing and
post a complete draft.
- Review
and evaluate this reading group.
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Draft
paper for the
journal Education
and Infromation Technologies |
Research
This
work is an action research on challenges establishing professional development
for educators that spans cultures, time zones, and continents. Experience
from Europe is knit with that from the U.S.A. Our social constructivist
approach to learning using communication technologiess (including the
web) draws graduate students, faculty, and staff together to develop flexible
and distance learning initiatives in 3 universities in the US and 3 in
Europe. We will use the reading groups' interactions, evaluations and
limited interviewing to gather data, plus surveys of project leaders across
six universities.
Participation
in the research is voluntary and may be withdrawn at any time. Researchers
will delete entries in the data archives. Where participants may be identified
they will be asked for their approval before publication.
To
withdraw your consent please contact ilet@iastate.edu
and the ILET director of research Dr. Niki Davis: nedavis@iastate.edu.
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Please contact them for further information.
Updated
September 27, 2006
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