How do we analyze and share academic research?
Advisors, please continue to use the spreadsheet to take attendance and Jupiter (Trimester 3) for reporting on proposals. If your room does not yet have a place to make the group's thinking visible, please prioritize that today. Some ideas that might already be captured in a common place: driving questions, search terms and definitions from Tuesday, evidence of progress identified on Friday. Students should also have a place where they are keeping track of their thinking about their project.
DO NOW: Prepare materials, tabs, and intentions for today. You will specifically need a different search term from your research to share.
- Materials: printed readings and annotations, notes, open/closed questions
- Tabs: This blog, Research and Annotation Guide, EasyBib, readings
- Intentions: What will be your focus today? What will you complete?
- Search Term: What words or concepts do you need a full understanding of in order to continue your research? Look to your closed questions for some ideas.
DO NEXT: Color. Shape. Line (reversed)
The purpose of this is establish strong research platforms as well as share project insights with the group.
Using the search term, generate a color, shape, and line that is appropriate for the term. Then create a representation to share. (Note, as a group, you can decide if you'd like to do this during research and share at the end.)
Example: Cosmopolitan Distribution is a term used to describe crane migration.
It means that they tend to live in all regions on the plant where there is appropriate habitat. This is important to understand, so that I can compare factors affecting the habitats in different parts of the world.
COLOR: Rose Why? It is a warm color, indicating where the habitats are welcoming and safe.
SHAPE: m Why? It looks like a bird flying. I first created a flying V for migration and then showed that the "m"s move all over, like the cranes on the planet.
LINE: Curly Why? This shows that their is variation in the migration patterns and that the birds have to be flexible to find habitats.
CONTINUE SEARCHING and RESEARCHING:
Take the temperature of the group regarding confidence on finding, reading, annotating, publishing to EasyBib using a fist-to-five. Students can pair up to provide support, groups can review as a whole, or advisors can meet with small groups, depending on what is needed. If there is a lot of confidence, have students share tips and tweaks that they've discovered in the research process.
- For those searching anew, revisit last Monday's plans
- For those returning to a groove, read on (and annotate)
- All should publish citations and annotations to EasyBib, one source at at time.
REFLECTION:
- Share out Color. Shape. Line from beginning of the period.
OR - Share out one source from reading and HOW you know it is credible, providing at least three reasons.
REMINDERS
Annotated Bibliographies with at least five sources are due Friday, February 20th.
(Note...we will continue to add to these even after the 20th)
Annotated Bibliographies with at least five sources are due Friday, February 20th.
(Note...we will continue to add to these even after the 20th)
Year-long projecteers need to schedule a meeting with panels and writing conferences with Addie.
