I did another Google search looking for websites which dealt with technology in education. I hit the jackpot with a site www.iste.org. The acronym ISTE stands for International Society for Technology in Education, a nonprofit member organization. They define themselves in the following statement:
An organization of great diversity, ISTE leads through presenting innovative educational technology books and programs; conducting professional development workshops, forums, and symposia; and researching, evaluating, and disseminating findings regarding educational technology on an international level.
The site includes information on careers in education technology, educator resources, andnational educational technology standards (NETS); as well as providing conferences, blogs and other forms of communication and idea sharing.
Tuesday 5 August 2008
A vision of students today
As I have gone through this summer, and this search for information regarding technology's affect on academics and critical thinking, I have started heading to the conclusion that educators need to use technology in much more creative ways than they are in order to assist their students in their own use of resources, like the internet.
I found one teacher who does just that. Professor Wesch, of Kansas State University, uses technology to help teach, and his class put together a video which stated quite clearly why he must do so. The following pictures are from a youtube video (4:44) that was put together by his class (all 200 of them) from information they collected and surveys they conducted amongst themselves.
The video can also be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
Further information about Prof. Wesch and his classes can be found at Prof. Wesch's personal website: mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg or at the class' website: www.netvibes.com/wesch
I found one teacher who does just that. Professor Wesch, of Kansas State University, uses technology to help teach, and his class put together a video which stated quite clearly why he must do so. The following pictures are from a youtube video (4:44) that was put together by his class (all 200 of them) from information they collected and surveys they conducted amongst themselves.
The video can also be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related
Further information about Prof. Wesch and his classes can be found at Prof. Wesch's personal website: mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg or at the class' website: www.netvibes.com/wesch
Databases - LibLit
My final database search was through Library Literature (LibLit) because I wanted something pertaining directly to libraries. I decided on the successive fraction search. I knew everything would be about or for libraries and so I would narrow the search down using the other terms until I had a manageable number. I initially searched for "technology" and "education", both as subject searches, and came up with 205 results. I then searched the results for "high school".
This gave me 5 hits.
This gave me 5 hits.
Databases - JSTOR
For my third database I decided to use JSTOR. With almost four million articles, almost two million of which are full-text, I was sure JSTOR would have a high chance of good recall. I decided to use a specific facet first search since the database is so large, which would hopefully give me enough results where I would not need to continue searching. Because previous searches of other databases had returned so little on Boarding Schools, I decided to include that in my search term. I searched for full-text articles under the heading "boarding school library".
The search returned 2620 hits and so I narrowed it further by including the term "academics" linked by an AND operator. This only returned 144 hits, of which one really caught my eye. It was an article from 1996 by a school board member who was discussing the change in research.
The search returned 2620 hits and so I narrowed it further by including the term "academics" linked by an AND operator. This only returned 144 hits, of which one really caught my eye. It was an article from 1996 by a school board member who was discussing the change in research.
Databases - ERIC
Since the hit I felt most appropriate in the DIALOG search was from ERIC, I decided to do a citation pearl growing search in ERIC using that hit as my "pearl". I used the ERIC number as my search (# ED501560):
From there I saw that the first descriptor was "Technology Uses in Education", which was what I was looking for. I therefore clicked on the link that was inserted into the document and ERIC used that subject (technology uses in education) to complete another search. The results are as follows:
The first hit will be very useful toward learning as much as possible about my chosen subject, how technology affects academics and critical thinking.
From there I saw that the first descriptor was "Technology Uses in Education", which was what I was looking for. I therefore clicked on the link that was inserted into the document and ERIC used that subject (technology uses in education) to complete another search. The results are as follows:
The first hit will be very useful toward learning as much as possible about my chosen subject, how technology affects academics and critical thinking.
Databases - DIALOG
As an assignment for my class I needed to search four databases for information related to my topic. This is the first of the four posts.
For DIALOG (accessible at www.dialog.com)I used a building block search which returned many more options than I could have easily browsed through. Had I not worried about the nature of the database to bill by the minute I would have spent much more time refining my search terms once I was comfortable with the setup. However, as it was, I feel that I would have been hard pressed to narrow the terms further without drastically reducing recall (of which other databases are sorely lacking). My search is as follows:
The results were not exactly as I would have wanted but they did all deal with technology in learning. Of the first few results, the sixth hit was the one most appealing to me. It seemed to have the most bearing on the need behind the search.
For DIALOG (accessible at www.dialog.com)I used a building block search which returned many more options than I could have easily browsed through. Had I not worried about the nature of the database to bill by the minute I would have spent much more time refining my search terms once I was comfortable with the setup. However, as it was, I feel that I would have been hard pressed to narrow the terms further without drastically reducing recall (of which other databases are sorely lacking). My search is as follows:
The results were not exactly as I would have wanted but they did all deal with technology in learning. Of the first few results, the sixth hit was the one most appealing to me. It seemed to have the most bearing on the need behind the search.
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