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Greetings all,

As you may know, the deadline for the Digging into Data proposal is fast approaching, and actually falls just a day or two after our meetings in Seattle will conclude.  Based on this timeline, Lance and Stephen and I have been working on getting the proposal nearly ready so that we can have a chance to review it as a group before we submit.  Toward that end, I’m attaching the latest draft of the narrative section of the project application.

See the narrative here.

For convenience, the original RFP is here.

Other background materials on the funding challenge can be found at the DiD website.

Have been enjoying looking over the other proposals, documents, and RFPs, and am excited to see everyone in Seattle next week!

Mike

WUN Outline Proposal Loader-Davies

Hi all,

Hopefully I have successfully uploaded a MS Word doc which outlines some ideas that Ian and I have been knocking about. Actually Ian is in Hong Kong so he hasn’t seen this revised version which he may wish to bat into the long grass! Anyway it forms the basis of what we would like to discuss and picks up those multidisciplinary issues in what i hope is a constructive way forward. Please let me know your thoughts. If it has not uploaded let me know and I’ll put in on the list instead. Brian

However on the CC work scene I have been cleaning up my thoughts and all documentations and preparing and giving presentations related to the CC National Assessment cycles…

Other ACER work, given that it is a contract-based workplace, has me as Series Editor of our chief research publication (Australian Education Review-AER)…

Interestingly I am working with Kathryn Moyle on a forthcoming edition on Using ICT to Improve Teaching and Learning, with a tentative title of  Building innovation – learning with technologies. This will be useful to me in the work I was thinking of trying to implement in our project, as I can learn a lot from her…. she has reputation and expertise in ICT learning I can certainly gain from…

My proposal would be much as I outlined in the February proposal… and I will re-visit it before Seattle.

In several schools in 3 states I propose that I would be surveying staff (admin and teaching) as to how integrated ICT learning is in a school and also how they manage their school governance and explicit and inexplicit C&C activities (and C&C curriculum, if there is such a program!)   I’d be wanting to explore to what degree and in what ways these implementations inform one another. This work is my old methodological stamping ground, and it would be picking up on the data and findings on the ‘effect’ on C&C achievement of participation in and engagement with School Governance and C&C Activities in and outside school, identified in the regression analysis undertaken in the recent NAP-CC07 report.

To have useful data on such would require some exploration of what informs the programs and what kinds of C&C (& ICT) learning outcomes are generated in the different locations. Then the analyses might enable one to hypothesise explanations.

I would gain immeasurably from a decent reading list from colleagues, as much of this ICT learning area is new to me, and the surveying will need to be informed by theories and current thought from people like yourselves. Ariadne and I have not talked through whether we can assist each other in a general sense… but no doubt some contact would occur and support etc etc.

As I have previously explained I will need a group proposal to accompany any application for funding, so I cannot actually act on that element until after Seattle, but there has been a bit of interest shown in the general research propositions we referenced in the early days of the project.

I hope this is clear, I do keep pondering but don’t have time at present to really think hard about it.

Hence I have summarised some points as they relate to me, as I agreed that a general picture of where we all are is MOST helpful to have in advance, as I agree that we cannot afford to take all of Friday to establish the main focus of any or all research groups….

I am tremendously excitied about it all…so I hope this is a useful contribution.

Regards
Suzanne

Here is a brief update on my current work: