Overview

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Wireless technologies in educational research
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Overview

• Family tree
• Qualitative approach
• Quantitative methods
• Wireless technologies in educational research
• Sample classroom applications

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Educational research family tree

• Convergence of multiple disciplines
• Composition
• Psychology
• Linguistics
• English
• Anthropology
• Teacher practitioners
• Multiple backgrounds multiple research methods

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Research methods
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Qualitative approach

• In situ Natural setting
• Observation
• Interview
• Focus groups
• Think aloud protocols
• Discourse analysis / Conversation analysis
• Textual analysis
• Practitioner experience
• Products Ethnography (thick description), Case
  study, Oral history

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Quantitative methods

• Survey
• Pre-test / Post-test
• Experimental design (control group, treatment)
• Product Statistical analysis, IMRD-type papers

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Wireless technologies
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Wireless technologies in educational research

• What types of studies are possible?
• Engagement
• Comprehension
• Interaction/collaboration
• Patterns of research
• How do these devices assist in measurement?

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Sample classroom applications

• Cell phones (M-learning)
• Class updates via RSS
• In-class feedback
• After class note to instructor
• Forum posts
• PDA
• Participatory simulations
• In-class feedback
• Probeware
• Laptops