Research updates and literature reviews on the road to a Doctor of Educational Technology degree at Central Michigan University.
Exploring MagicSchool.ai to Help Teach Musical Styles
Author’s Note: This post takes a practical approach to using MagicSchool’s generative AI functions. The many ethical issues that surround the use of AI generative tools have been published broadly. The Center for Teaching Innovation at Cornell University presents an outline of some ethical concerns that can inform educators as they navigate these complexities and…
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The Big Question:
On Adolescent Creativity in Online Learning The final assignment for EDU800 was an “elevator pitch”—an exercise in developing the ability to clearly and succinctly communicate our current interests at any given time. Wow. It was hard—not the writing of it; the delivering of it. We were asked to create and post a two-minute video outlining…
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The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning
Image: Joy Reeves – The Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. ANNOTATION: Borup, J., West R., Graham C. and Davies, R. (2014) The Adolescent Community of Engagement: A Framework for Research on Adolescent Online Learning. Journal of Technology and Teacher Engagement 22(1), 107-129. Enrollments in K-12 online learning continue to…
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Higher Order Thinking in an Online World: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis
ANNOTATION: Higher Order Thinking in an Online World: Toward a Theory of Web-Mediated Knowledge Synthesis Deschryver, M. (2014). Higher order thinking in an online world: Toward a theory of web-mediated knowledge synthesis. Teachers College Record, 116(12), 1-44. Access to the web is nearly ubiquitous at home, work, and school. Most people use the web for straightforward information-based tasks, but…
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Creating technology-enhanced, learner-centered classrooms: K–12 teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, barriers, and support needs
PHOTO: iStock ANNOTATION: An, Y. J., & Reigeluth, C. (2011). Creating technology-enhanced, learner-centered classrooms: K–12 teachers’ beliefs, perceptions, barriers, and support needs. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 28(2), 54-62. Twenty-first century educational thinking moves beyond what Reigeluth (cited in paper, 1994, 1999b) referred to a factory-model “sorting” role, to achieve a higher-order learning role better designed…
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On the Nature of Creativity: Drawing from the PISA 2021 Creative Thinking Framework
CITATION: OECD. (2019). Framework for the Assessment of Creative Thinking in PISA 2021 (Third Draft) This is a long entry—much longer than I normally post—that in effect summarizes the PISA Creativity Framework, the theoretical foundation for an international test designed to assess creativity. This post begins with an overview of the assessment, then moves into a description…
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Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation.
CITATION: Mammadov, S., & Tozoglu, D. (2023). Autonomy support, personality, and mindset in predicting academic performance among early adolescents: The mediating role of self-determined motivation. Psychology in the Schools, 60, 3754–3769. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22966 This paper supports a tenet that is highly unsurprising: Young adolescents—that is, middle school students—who are very conscientious and who have high levels of autonomy support from teachers and parents…
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Profiles of personal and ecological assets: Adolescents’ motivation and engagement in self-driven learning
Zhu, G. and Burrow, A. (2021). Profiles of personal and ecological assets: Adolescents’ motivation and engagement in self-driven learning. Current Psychology 42:14025-14037. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02412-0 Opportunities for self-driven, informal learning for teens are on the rise, but little is known about what motivates students to seek these activities, nor about what keeps them engaged when they find…
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Fledgling Thoughts on AI from Four Assigned Readings
Photo Credit: Tierney – stock.adobe.com The following shares some thoughts on AI in education, based on four scholarly papers on the subject. The content below includes two big ideas that stood out per article, followed by one(ish) sentence on how it changed what I think of AI or how it might apply to my work. Truth…
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On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production
[Photo: Berklee Online.] ANNOTATION: Deruty, E., Grachten, M., Lattner, S., Nistal, J., and Aouameur, C. (2022). On the Development and Practice of AI Technology for Contemporary Popular Music Production. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 5(1), 35–49. DOI: https://doi. org/10.5334/tismir.100 The music industry has been abuzz with discussion on AI’s entry into…
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Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study
ANNOTATION: Ertmer et al. (2007). Using Peer Feedback to Enhance the Quality of Student Online Postings: An Exploratory Study. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 12: 412–433. Ertmer et al’s study is a case study of 15 students to assess whether peer feedback improves the quality of online postings in an online course. Using numerical, rubric-driven grades,…
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What tools or technologies are used to improve engagement?
FOCUSED LITERATURE REVIEW 8: Exploring the potential of LMS log data as a proxy measure of student engagement SOURCE: Henrie, C. R., Bodily, R., Larsen, R., & Graham, C. R. (2018). Exploring the potential of LMS log data as a proxy measure of student engagement. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 30(2), 344-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12528-017-9161-1 Engagement—defined in this…
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What are strategies that enhance engagement in online courses?
FOCUSED LITERATURE REVIEW #7: “Engagement matters: Student perceptions on the importance of engagement strategies in the online learning environment” Martin, F. & Bolliger, D.U. (2018). Engagement matters: Student perceptions on the importance of engagement strategies in the online learning environment. Online Learning 22(1), 205- 222. doi:10.24059/olj.v22i1.1092 In their research study, Martin and Bolliger issued a…
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The New Literacy Studies and the Resurgent Literacy Myth
ANNOTATION: Graff, H.J. (2022). The New Literacy Studies and the Resurgent Literacy Myth. In: Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96981-3_9 Graff’s chapter in Palgrave Macmillan’s 2022 release Searching for Literacy is a blazing takedown of New Literacy Studies, claiming that much of the research in this…
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What is engagement and is it different than motivation?
FOCUSED LITERATURE REVIEW #6: “The Relationship Between Student Motivation and Class Engagement Levels” Nayır, F. (2017). The Relationship between Student Motivation and Class Engagement Levels. Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 17 (71), 59-78. This post is a little different than previous. EDU 811 “Motivation in Online and Blended Learning” requires weekly-ish deep reads of one…
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Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education
ANNOTATION: Evans, Paul (2015). Self-determination theory: An approach to motivation in music education. Musicae Scientiae, 19(1), 65-83. doi: 10.1177/10298649/4568044. Though numerous motivational models have been previously applied to understand motivation in music learning, no theoretical framework has been universally accepted. In this article, Evans provides an argument for Self-Determination Theory as an ideal theoretical model…
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Understanding feedback in online learning—A critical review and metaphor analysis
ANNOTATION: Jenson, Lasse X., Bearman, M. and Boud, D. (2021). Understanding Feedback in Online Learning: A Critical Review and Metaphor Analysis. Computers & Education 173 (4), 104271. doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104271 Jenson et al.’s paper is a critical review of online learning research to explore the way that researchers define and conceive of the concept of “feedback” in…
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The Effect of Individualized Online Instruction on TPACK Skills and Achievement in Piano Lessons
ANNOTATION: Kaleli, Y. S. (2021). The Effect of Individualized Online Instruction on TPACK Skills and Achievement in Piano Lessons. International Journal of Technology in Education 4(3), 399-412. doi.org/10.46328/ijte.143 This study worked with a control group and experimental group of music education majors to compare student learning outcomes and performance in online piano instruction via a…
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“Using Learner Reviews to Inform Instructional Video Design in MOOCs”
ANNOTATION: Deng, R., & Gao, Y. (2023). Using Learner Reviews to Inform Instructional Video Design in MOOCs. Behavioral Sciences, 13(4), 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040330 Video watching is the most common instructional resource in MOOCs, and many studies have been completed to determine students’ impressions and preferences. However, according to the authors, most of these have been small studies, so…
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“How Video Production Affects Student Engagement: An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos”
ANNOTATION: Philip J. Guo, Juho Kim, and Rob Rubin. 2014. How video production affects student engagement: an empirical study of MOOC videos. In Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference (L@S ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556325.2566239 This study evaluated engagement via student behaviors while watching…
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“The Role of Motivation in the Use of Lecture Behaviors in the Online Classroom”
ANNOTATION: Fanguy, M., Costley, J., Lange, C., Baldwin, M., & Han, S. (2018). The role of motivation in the use of lecture behaviors in the online classroom. Journal of Information Technology Education, 17, 471–484. https://doi.org/10.28945/4131 This study presents the results of a survey given to 2,434 students at Open Cyber University in South Korea. OCU…
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“Computer Hypertextual ‘Uncovering’ in Art Education”
ANNOTATION: Taylor, Pamela G. and B. Stephen Carpenter, II. “Computer Hypertextual ‘Uncovering’ in Art Education.” Jl. Of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (2005) 14(1) 25-45. In this work, authors Taylor and Carpenter explored the use of hypermedia in high school, as well as university undergraduate and graduate art education classes to explore ways that hypertext “uncovering”…
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“The Web as an Information The Web as an Information Resource in K–12 Education: Strategies for Supporting Students in Searching and Processing Information.”
ANNOTATION: Kuiper, Els, Monique Volman, and Jan Terwel. “The Web as an Information Resource in K–12 Education: Strategies for Supporting Students in Searching and Processing Information.” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Review of Educational Research. Fall 2005, Vol. 75, No. 3, pp. 285–328. This article from 2005 is a meta-analysis of research in Web-based learning from 1997-2002.…
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“Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: A National Plan for Music Education 2022”
ANNOTATION: Carol Bacchi (2023) Bringing a ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to music education: a national plan for music education 2022, Music Education Research, 25:3, 231-241, DOI: 10.1080/14613808.2023.2223220 This article presents Carol Bacchi’s “What’s the Problem Represented to Be?” (WPR) critical approach to interpreting the UK’s National Plan for Music Education document (2022).…
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Mayer’s “Thirty Years of Research in Online Learning” and Future Directions
ANNOTATION: Mayer, Richard E. Thirty years of research on online learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 2019; 33: 152-159. This paper presents Richard E. Mayer’s personal overview and analysis of research developments in online learning over the past 30 years, showing the ways that online learning contributes to the science of learning (how people learn), the science…
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“A Paradigm Analysis of Arts-Based Research and Implications for Education”
ANNOTATION: Rolling, Jr., James Haywood. A Paradigm Analysis of Arts-Based Research and Implications for Education. Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research 2010, 51(2), 102-114. In “A Paradigm Analysis of Arts-Based Research and Implications for Education,” author James Haywood Rolling, Jr. of Syracuse University, attempts to describe arts-based research and outline its…
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“Making Artistic Learning Visible: Theory Building Through A/r/tographical Exploration”
ANNOTATION: Ruopp, Amy, and Kathy Unrath. “Making artistic learning visible: Theory building through a/r/tographical exploration.” Visual Arts Research, vol. 45, no. 2, 2019, pp. 29–48, https://doi.org/10.5406/visuartsrese.45.2.0029. In this article, authors Ruopp and Unrath present the results of a six-week research project with 15 pre-service art teachers in a project aimed at developing aspiring teacher/artists’ ability…
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Susan Gedutis Lindsay 