Lisa Weber's Action Research Plan for Digital Citizenship

Lisa Weber’s Action Research Planning For Digital Citizenship for the Digital Age Learner
Goal: Advocating Digital Citizenship with the use of modeling and facilitating a digital           culture for the Digital Age Learner
Action Steps(s):	Person(s) Responsible:	Timeline: Start/End	Needed Resources	Evaluation
Ensure access to digital tools and resources	Lisa Weber	August  2013- January 2014	1:1 iPad classroom or computer lab for virtual classroom connect	Data from assessing student engagement
Research ways to engage in the promoting and modeling of establish policies for safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology for positive Digital Citizenship	Lisa Weber	November 2013-January 2014	Free Internet Classroom Applications e.g. (Edmodo)	Determine which List of free online applications for Digital classroom instruction via blog and virtual classroom site for online observations(TBA)
Implement new ways to promote and model responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information while online within the Digital Culture	Lisa Weber	January 2014-June 2014	1:1 iPad classroom or computer lab for virtual classroom connect	Documentation of assessment computations in numerical and alphanumerical qualitative formats
Assess student online performance with the development of a digital cultural understanding and involvement of contemporary communication and collaboration tools for analyzing	Lisa Weber	January 2014-June 2014	Virtual classroom embedded Spreadsheet to track Teacher/Student online engagement data for analysis	Conclusions from student digital footprinting while engaging in 1:1 iPad online learning while utilizing Digital Citizenship format
Compare assessment of student online engagement after promoting and providing 1:1 iPad learner centered environments readily equipped with resources to meet the individual, diverse needs of the digital aged learner	Lisa Weber	June 2014- August 2014	Virtual classroom embedded Spreadsheet to track Student online engagement data	Draft conclusions by comparing spreadsheets and post results of ARP study
Implement changes base on results of finding how Digital Citizenship is reciprocated in classroom	Lisa Weber	August 2014-December 2014	Virtual classroom embedded Spreadsheet to track Teacher/Student online engagement data for analysis	Modifications of drafted changes for ARP study
Share conclusions with site supervisor and other inquirers	Lisa Weber	August 2014-December 2014	Results of action research plan and digital documentation summarizing completion	Final document or product to share results

 

Digital Citizenship for (TIC)

The research I am proposing is taken from ISTE’s TF/FL Standard I, TF/TL Standard II, and TF/TL Standard III which are the very core of my ARP (Action Research Plan).  I am currently researching and preparing an ARP for Digital Citizenship which consists of focusing and developing the evasiveness structure of helping teachers plan and design Learning Environments and Experiences. This can be done through Facilitating and Leading Instructional Change.  The goals and objectives I have included for investigating are all centered on the Teacher and the Student.  In order for the Teacher to be able to teach using Technology, the educator will need to be able to plan and design a Technology Instructional Classroom, (TIC).  This must be done first in order to teach Student Technology Literacy for assessments to collect data. With the use of Productivity and Professional Practice, my ARP will promote skillful learning and the development of learning communities with the use of Digital Citizenship.

Data Usage In Action Research

Data is the key component for understanding what the practitioner will evaluate as to how the student is learning within the realms of a digital age campus.
 Action Research can be initiated with the use of "data streams".

 

How Educational Leaders Might Use Blogs?

Blogging free technology application sites used for Professional Learning Communitites (PLCs) when the educator is planning and designing learning environments and experiences with the use of educational technology are ways in which educational leaders can use blog sites.  Another way blogs can be use is to network and share ideas about action research and its relevancy.

Head Learner: Creating a Community of Learners

 
What I learned about action research and how might it be able to be used?

This blog was created by a Technology researcher and consultant for supportive Professional Development (PD) for educators whose campuses are implementing 1:1 iPads for the entire campus curricula. This blog is also an Action Research project (EDLD: Research) for Lamar University Academic Partnership.
The difference between traditional research and action research can be speculated from three different angles all of which connects to the role of the practitioner as researcher. Since traditional research was conducted and handled by an outside entity such as independent university researchers, facilitating action research has allowed the researching to be done by the practitioner who is actually inquiring about fact findings pertaining to their research. The next tradition would be classroom research where educational practices along with investigative processes can be conducted. Lastly, as all of the above is taking place, the practitioner is able to initiate change as research information is generated and analyzed.  
I have learned that being exclusively involved in the research and development of building a professional learning community (PLC), and the ways it might be used, is by taking the knowledge gained by all to allow the continuous growth of strategies, planning, making decisions, developing policies, monitoring and sharing leadership for the success of the action research to support a professional learning community (PLC). 

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