Disciplinary Approaches

Today

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

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

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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

technology AND rural schools AND history

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

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