How do you see history playing a role in your POP?


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History Reflection

Today

• Conceptualizing your POP from an historical perspective
• Search Strategies: Edu databases vs. non-edu databases
• Checklist
• Questions

Teachers in rural school districts have low confidence and little experience using technology in the classroom, and integrating creative technology applications into regular lesson planning.

Brainstorm areas of your POP where you can research from this perspective.

Research Ideas

• Historical data of how rural schools adapt to change
• Technology availability in rural areas .
• Teacher support in rural schools.

Turn the ideas into research questions.

Research Questions

• What studies have been done on rural schools integrating new programs?
• How has lack of technology in rural areas affected rural schools over time?
• How has lack of a large network in rural areas affected teachers' ability to grow over the course of their careers?

Choose a question, create a search strategy

FOCUS

Go where the historians go

guides.library.jhu.edu/history

JSTOR
Project Muse

Checklist

• Brainstorm
• Develop Research Questions
• Create Search Strategy
• Search education databases - don't forget the thesaurus
• Search history databases

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Annotated Bibliographies

Sources

• Peer Reviewed
• Empirical Research
• Primary Research

Peer Reviewed

Peer Reviewed

Empirical

Empirical

• Data is derived from a scientific method
• Data comes from something that the author experienced, i.e. observation or measurement
• Includes an experimental design
• More info: guides.libraries.psu.edu/emp

Primary

Primary

• The article reports on a study conducted by the authors writing the article.
• May include a lit review, but cannot only be a literature review article
• Will include hypothesis, methods, data, etc.

Based on your assignment description, what are the major components of an annotation?

Parts of an Annotation

• Summary/Description (1-2 paragraphs)
• Evaluation and Commentary/Reflection (1 paragraph

Tackle your Annotation

• Introduce article subject
• Determine how it relates to POP/research
• Critique the article
• Defend its use in your research.

Summary

• Highlight the main points or findings
• Describe the relevance, accuracy, quality of the source

Summary

• Comment on the intended audience