1. In the McKee/Blair piece, I love Blair’s admission of her own mistaken ideas about older adults and technological literacy. This is a wonderful example of a researcher not only locating herself, but admitting her own faults. How did others respond to this? Have you seen other researchers with this kind of candor in their work? How did it affect your reading on them professionally, and how might it have affected the regard in which they were held by their peers.
2. I found the discussion of the research uses of Amazon in the Purdy/Walker piece to be really interesting. What unorthodox search methods do each of us use? What do we suggest to our students? Are we encouraging student creativity in this arena?
3. The idea of research as play is intriguing; what kinds of classroom uses could it have? Have others in this class approached research (either for themselves or in their teaching) in this manner?
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