Re – AloudYesterday during a discussion surrounding coding and the process of coding – particularly in grounded theory a question occurred to me – in open coding do you code with your research question in mind so that you are theoretically sensitive to the question in the data or do you just “code what you see”? I’ll [...]
I had a conversation this weekend with the Physics teacher about how I am struggling to identify and capture the practice of serendipitous encounter and musing. The primary problem is that there are two practices that can occur when one comes across data that ‘speaks to’ them in a manner that causes them to internalize [...]
Note: This is the equivalent of a free write – it doesn’t necessarily make sense. It seems that the primary way teens gather information is through serendipity. In other words not through intentional searching. They overhear or participate in a conversation, they come across something while ‘surfing’ the web, it is information in the public [...]
When I first decided to use encounter as a category that gathered up the codes related to finding information I was looking for something that encapsulated the notion that people often use information that they do have because they sought it out – they didn’t recognize a information gap and seek to bridge that gap, [...]
I have been struggling with whether or not this is a practice – and I have come to the conclusion it is a category of practice. The action of encountering information is a) intentional – even in the serendipitous sense. There is a wide range of input in an individual’s life world and the necessary [...]
“They shoot the white girl first.” This is the opening line of Toni Morrison’s Paradise. It is quite possibly the only undisputed fact in the novel. The rest of the story unfolds through multiple perspectives, and it builds a tapestry of knowledge about the event in which the white girl was shot first. So why [...]
Is there a way to represent this idea? That operating as a content creator is a form of information apprenticeship?
The more I consider this as a framework the more I like it. For review purposes “transliteracy is the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media from signing to orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio, and film to digital social networks” (p. 2) It is the idea of [...]
For anyone who following my research and/or this blog (ok, me) you know that I have struggled with conceptualizations of literacies, and being literate. To sum it up: I do not like how literacy has become a pie with several slices – basic or textual literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, information literacy, technical literacy, 21st [...]
