Rabu, 22 Oktober 2008

dengan gaya yang hebat

Islamic Hijri Calendar

Critical Thinking and Transferability: A Review of the Literature

http://www.comcol.umass.edu/dbc/pdfs/Reece_LitReview.pdf

Gwendolyn Reece might have written a traditional research paper describing the history of critical thinking in American education and containing quotations from scholarly sources to support her ideas. Instead, she presents a literature review focusing on the scholarly sources themselves. Reece explains how scholarly opinion has developed over time, where leading scholars agree and disagree, what sources carry more authority than others, and finally where more research is needed.

Isnin, 20 Oktober 2008

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relaks...siapa ni..wanted

Khamis, 16 Oktober 2008

qualitative n quantitative

David Silverman (1993). “Beginning Research”. Interpreting Qualitative Data. Methods for Analysing Talk,Text and Interaction. Londres: Sage Publications.
A methodology is a general approach to studying a research topic. It establishes how one will go about studying any phenomenon. In social research, examples of methodologies are positivism (which seeks to discover laws using quantitative methods) and, of course, qualitative methodology (which is often concerned with inducing hypotheses from field research). Like theories, methodologies cannot be true or false, only more or less useful.
Finally, methods are specific research techniques. These include quantitative techniques, like
statistical correlations, as well as techniques like observation, interviewing and audio-recording. Once again, in themselves, techniques are not true or false. They are more or less useful, depending on their fit with the theories and methodologies being used, the hypothesis being tested and/or the research topic that is selected So for instance, positivists will favour quantitative methods and interactionists often prefer to gather their data by observation. But, depending upon the hypothesisbeing tested, positivists may sometimes use qualitative methods -for instance in the exploratory stageof research. Equally, interactionists may sometimes use simple quantitative methods, particularlywhen they want to find an overall pattern in their data.

Selasa, 7 Oktober 2008

Blogging as Pedagogic Practice

Blogging as Pedagogic Practice:
Artefact and Ecology1
Marcus O’Donnell
University of Wollongong, Australia

Much of the published discussion and research on blogs and teaching and learning in
higher education focuses on evaluation of blogging as a communicative technique.
This type of discussion largely assumes that successful integration of blogging
into course delivery should be judged against a pre-existing and unchallenged
pedagogical model. This paper argues that to leverage its full educational potential
blogging must be understood not just as an isolated phenomena, but as part of a
broad palette of cybercultural practices which provide us with new ways of doing
and thinking. The paper looks at the ways broader theoretical models associated with
the development of the blogosphere might challenge or enhance current theories of
teaching and learning.
Blogging Theory Blogging Practice
Susan Herring and colleagues in a content analysis of 203 randomly selected blogs
concluded that there was a gap between blogging rhetoric and blogging practice.
Our analyses revealed less evidence than expected of blogs as interlinked,
interactive, and oriented towards external events; rather, most of the blogs in
our corpus are individualistic, even intimate, forms of self-expression, and
a surprising number of them contain few or no links. Based on the profile
generated by the empirical analysis, we traced the historical antecedents of
weblogs back to hand-written diaries. We also pointed out the hybrid nature of
weblogs, suggesting that the technical affordances of the weblog format make
it readily adaptable to multiple purposes of use. Finally, we suggested that
these same affordances bridge, and ultimately blur the boundaries, between
HTML documents and text-based CMC, as blogs and other interactive Web based communication systems replace some of the functions of traditional
Internet genres and give rise to new functions. (Herring et al 2004)