Tag: research design
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You Know What They Say About Assumptions…
My whole life I’ve been warned about making assumptions. Always give people the benefit of the doubt, I was told. And “you know how the old saying goes…Never assume because it makes an a#$ out of you and me” (Source Unknown). But it turns out assumptions aren’t always a bad thing. Dede’s (2011) article actually…
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Feedback About Feedback and Other Musings
“Dear Friend, I thought your point about Case Study A was spot on. You did a great job of synthesizing your thoughts and opinions on this topic, and I agree with you about how important this concept is. I, too, found the reading this week to be valuable and thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing! Keep…
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TPCK: Making Old-ish Frameworks New
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” Sir William Henry Bragg Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) article on the idea of TPCK was so in-depth that I had dreams about it last week. I’m not kidding. The authors really, really dove…
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Themes on a Variation of Relevance and Research
I have loved classical music for as long as I can remember. If you, too, are a ‘classics’ fan then you’ll recognize the wordplay in this week’s title. According to study.com, a ‘theme and variation’ in music refers to a main theme woven throughout a piece, all the while allowing the composer to sprinkle variations…
Now What? (Education and Technology in a Post COVID World) 