Action research has become the beginning of an interesting journey in the education. We as educators we need to keep improving, we cannot stop improving and learning the new techniques, technologies that would make our students successful in the future. EDLD_5301 / Action Research has given the key to find opportunity areas in our classroom, school, district that way when we see something that needs improving, something that is bugging a group of people. We could make things easier, efficiently, simple, smoothly, etc that would benefit a lot of people.
I choose during my course to work with what I know best: a) bilingual b) technology and with this approach try to have a project that would help increase the use of technology in classrooms benefiting the bilingual students. The bilingual population has been increasing in as mentioned by Mark Hugo Lopez , in his report titled U.S. Hispanic country of origin counts for nation, he mentions that as per the 2010 Decennial Census there is 50.5 million Hispanics in the U.S. so what a better way to use my two strengths trying to benefit this growing population be more successful in their reading tests and try also to help the school and district in increase the grades in the TAKS test that were affected this year.
When I included this topic in the discussion, it was great to know that there are other colleagues that are looking for the same area and have some similar projects, the enrichment from the discussion I believe will reflect in a more solid and better project.
Eduardo,
ReplyDeleteOur research topics are very similar. I think that what we are trying to do is to find a way, through technology, to help students be successful and at the same time; implement technology in a meaningful way. I believe that a purchase protocol should be implemented based on the benefits that the software will bring to the table in relation to students' achievement and apart from sales strategies or any other factor. I don't think, at least at my school, that there is a committee or a plan to select educational software. This fact becomes critical when many school resources are committed to its implementation without teachers' input, such as the case at my school.
I really believe that the creation of this protocol that I am talking about would make an excellent action research project for the future.