teachers as consumers of literacy research

+GLIT 6756Literacy & Inquiry:Teachers as Informed Consumers of Literacy Research

Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobelc.lankshear@yahoo.com & micheleknobel@gmail.com

+Research as systematic inquiry

p. 29 of your textbook

+Relationship of Research Logic to Evaluation TemplateContext of study (purpose,

question, problem area, relevant other research)

Framework (theory and concepts)

Design and methodology

The evaluative template (Appendix 1 in your syllabus)

+Tasks for today

Forming work groups (teams) & sending names and email addresses to Michele & Colin

Kitting up (key resources for the semester)

Becoming familiar with the evaluative template

Practising with the template in work groups using the Gainer article we’ve supplied

Locating a literacy research-based paper to critique (that all members of a group can “relate to”)

+Forming work groups

Ideally 4-6 members

Likely to share some common interest to help with article selection

Likely to be able to work together online and offline and contribute equally to the final analytic paper

+Kitting up

Using Google Docs to write collaboratively (http://docs.google.com )

Using the internet to communicate between meetings (e.g., www.skype.com or messenger/chat, blog, Twitter, email)

Resources for finding a suitable article (e.g., http://scholar.google.com ; MSVU online article archives)

+Using Google Docs

+Google Docs (cont.)

+Google Docs (cont.)

+Google Docs (cont.)

Title your document here

+Google docs (cont.)

Share your Google Docs with Colin and Michele:

colin.lankshear@gmailcom

micheleknobel@gmail.com

+Using Scholar Google as a meta-search engine

Select “Scholar

Preferences”

+Scholar Google (cont.)

Write out uni name in full

+Scholar Google (cont.)

Place check

mark in box

+Scholar Google (cont.)

+Critiquing Gainer article

In groups, work through the Gainer article, using the analytic template found in Appendix 1 of your syllabus to guide your evaluation

Discuss as a whole group

This is a sampling of the kind of process you’ll go through for writing your final paper

+Finding a focus articleThe article must be relevant to literacy

studies.

The article must be a peer-reviewed and formally published research article.

Ideally published within the past 5 years.

You need to be truly interested in the focus of the article. Focus must be good and “meaty”

The focus of your article needs to have a prior history of research – be part of a research area or field

Your final paper must engage with debates, present an argument, and include critique (your group needs to take a theorised position and you’ll be reading well beyond your focus article)

+Course website & additional resources

https://sites.google.com/site/ourmsvupages/pei-summer-

2012-consumers

There are 3 examples of final papers posted here.