Sunday, March 10, 2013

New Week, New Findings

This week has seemed like it will never end and I am STILL not through with my assignments. I am in the process of moving this week so things have been nothing less than chaotic! Thankfully we are on spring break this next week so I will have plenty of time to organize AND work on homework. Well, enough about my personal life. This week I had the opportunity to sit down with my site supervisor and narrow down the choices for my action research study. After talking, we came up with three different ideas; motivation techniques, benefits of LLI, and the benefits of Istation. After discussing all three in detail, we settled on the benefits of Istation as the most beneficial one to myself, our students and our school as a whole. I am very excited to start researching Istation and gathering student data over the next several months. This masters program has already led me to so many opportunities I never would have experienced without it. It has been very educational being able to interview multiple leaders in education and begin to research different areas that could benefit from an action research study. I am looking forward to the rest of this course and the ones after it as well.

3 comments:

  1. I'm with you on the long week Megan! I am not moving (thank goodness) but I have a stomach bug that started on Thursday that has made homework almost impossible! I have not been able to sit down with my site supervisor yet because she is in India, but am hoping to conference with her via email over the next weeks. I am curious, what is Istation? What education level is it used on?

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  2. I was very excited to see that your are pursuing this topic! We use Istation for all students in grades K through 2, and in grade 3 through 5 it is used more as an intervention. With all of the reports that you can generate from the program, it will be easier to collect useful data. It will be interesting to look at your plan and see what kind of usage schedule you have in place and for which grade levels. I would also be interested in know what kind of other computer based reading programs your school uses in addition to Istation (i.e. Accelerated Reader, KidBiz, etc.). Again, great topic! I look forward to reading more!

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  3. I was also excited to see that you were pursuing this topic! Just a few weeks ago, I received an email from our instructional specialist about Istation. I'm looking forward following your research!

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