Almost PhinisheD!

Think about how well you feel your research study will contribute to the field of learning technologies and how reasonable it is to complete it within a calendar year.  If I continue to pursue the link between librarians and their roles or influence in the integration of technology to enhance the campus and even district curriculum I think that this research could contribute a good deal to the field of learning technologies. When I was going through my masters degree in information science there was a fear that there would not be a job for me once I finished. There were so may campuses no longer employing librarians or situations where only one librarian would be hired for several schools and a library assistant would run the day to day at the campus level. That continues to be true for most charters schools in our area. The idea of librarian started to become obsolete because people...

Well I know that I wanted to do research with the use of connecting specific district curriculum with available technology to assist in the wider use of technology by teachers in their everyday instruction. The research would have attempted to measure the confidence and frequency of use of the mentioned technology with teachers who were offered this resources as opposed to teachers that were offered the curriculum and available technology separately and without much guidance as I think is more likely the case in most teaching situations. At least this has been the experience throughout the two districts I have worked in. It seems to be common place when I talk to other educators during conferences as well. I feel this is most important now that teachers have been thrown into technology now with remote learning. Even thought they are using technology to teach their classrooms can become more reminiscent of the lecture based instruction instead of student lead interactive activities that...

Thinking about the topic that I have interest in and hope to pursue as a dissertation topic I think that I pretty confident. The topic has to do with giving teachers the confidence to use technology in the classroom on a more frequent and effective manner by  giving them the essential information the need to do so more easily. As a librarian it is already my job to know and understand the curriculum of our teachers, it is also my responsibility to provide technology trainings to my campus. I am knowledgeable in the students population and the needs of my teachers I think that I can create a integration resources system that would be helpful and practical to them.  As far as literature review I have saved a number of articles in the university provided RefWorks account through out the coursework and I think that I have a good number to sustain my research ideas and means of gaining the data. The methods of gaining data would have to be interviews and surveys. Interviews because...