World 1-1: Research Methodology in Education (ETEC 500)
In Research Methodology in Education, I truly was immersed into a complete, and overwhelming world! I am so thankful that this was one of the first courses that I took – I think it prepared me the most for subsequent courses due to the nature of looking at research in the MET program.
In this world, I learned how to effectively work in an APA environment! I had taken many psychology courses in my under-graduate program, but it was not until the MET that APA really mattered. I also encountered terms like qualitative and quantitative – terms I have never really dealt with before. Coming from an Arts background, I quickly gravitated towards qualitative research – probably due to my love of storytelling.
Prior to entering into the MET program, I had decided that when I was doing my coursework, I would probably benefit from a focus. I attended a social media conference whose key note speaker was Alec Couros. He made me aware of how social media tools can be powerful in the classroom. It was my intention to focus on how social media, and more specifically YouTube, could be used in learning.
Below is a learning artifact from this course. It is a qualitative research proposal in which a study would be done to assess if YouTube could be used as a collaborative learning environment. Some of the ideas from ETEC 510 bled into my proposal, as the idea of constructivism was something that I was heavily interested in at the time. This proposal was inspired by this YouTube video.
In this world, I learned how to effectively work in an APA environment! I had taken many psychology courses in my under-graduate program, but it was not until the MET that APA really mattered. I also encountered terms like qualitative and quantitative – terms I have never really dealt with before. Coming from an Arts background, I quickly gravitated towards qualitative research – probably due to my love of storytelling.
Prior to entering into the MET program, I had decided that when I was doing my coursework, I would probably benefit from a focus. I attended a social media conference whose key note speaker was Alec Couros. He made me aware of how social media tools can be powerful in the classroom. It was my intention to focus on how social media, and more specifically YouTube, could be used in learning.
Below is a learning artifact from this course. It is a qualitative research proposal in which a study would be done to assess if YouTube could be used as a collaborative learning environment. Some of the ideas from ETEC 510 bled into my proposal, as the idea of constructivism was something that I was heavily interested in at the time. This proposal was inspired by this YouTube video.
Jonassen (1999) states that constructivism is when “there is the need for an authentic problem or question to be answered within a community of stakeholders". YouTube could be considered a constructivist learning environment because real problems, demonstrated by users, can be solved collaboratively with other users. This boy did not use YouTube the way most people use it – showing how to do something. In this video, he is asking how to do something. It made me wonder if YouTube could be used by students to engage a larger community of experts. Can YouTube be used to collaboratively create knowledge?
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