Archive for the 'Week 11' Category

Rough Draft of I-Search Paper

November 4, 2007

Introducing/Questioning
Prior to finding the topic I wanted to research, I started thinking of something that would correlate with literacy, something that was not too narrow but also not too broad to research, and finally something that would pertain to our field.  I began thinking of how I have always been fascinated by how the brain [...]

A11.3: Week 11 Participation Memo

November 4, 2007

Ashley Carr
November 4, 2007
Aims and Objectives:
This week my main goal was to complete a draft of my I-search paper.  I had previously looked up most of my information, but my first goal was to get all of the information organized and know what I was going to use in my paper.  Then my next goal [...]

A11.1: Branching Literacy

November 2, 2007

Ashley Carr
November 2, 2007
 Branching Literacy Skills
This week our focus of the term literacy revolved around the skill of branching literacy.  This skill is one of many that people involved in the World Wide Web have to discover if they want to gather information.  “Branching literacy is the multi-demensional thinking skills in contructing meaningful understanding of complex phenomena” (Aviram and Eshet-Alkalai).  The era [...]