1. Warming up with inspiration from the Tinkering School; post on today's class blog one takeaway
"Success is in the doing, and failures are celebrated and analyzed. Problems become puzzles, and obstacles disappear." -- Gever Tulley
2. Generating questions about your research topic:
- What are curious about? What do you want to know?
- What are you wondering?
- What's confusing?
- What do you need to find out more about?
- What are some connections you're hoping to make?
- What do you hope to learn by the end of this project?
- Level 1: (Who/what/when/where/how many?)
- Level 2: (How...?)
- Level 3: (Why...? What if...?
3. Clustering and coding your questions to focus your research; try organizing your questions under larger, umbrella categories
Why were people afraid of the year 2000?
Did this come from earlier fears of specific years?
Was this foretold somewhere (Farmer's Almanac, etc)?
Which fears were legitimate (vs. paranoid)?
What were people buying to prepare themselves for Y2K?
What were news sources reporting that contributed to the paranoia? What were the headlines?
What did the big cities look like on New Years Eve?
Were people picketing? What did their signs say?
Did people alter their jobs or their homes in preparation for Y2K?
How many people were diagnosed with anxiety as the result of Y2K?
How were the banks / the stock market affected?
Are people still scared of specific years?
Is there still anxiety over the world coming to a specific end?
Do we have more confidence in our social structures now since nothing actually went wrong?
An example for Y2K:
I. Questions about the origins of fear
Did this come from earlier fears of specific years?
Was this foretold somewhere (Farmer's Almanac, etc)?
Which fears were legitimate (vs. paranoid)?
II. Questions about what the fear looked like
What were news sources reporting that contributed to the paranoia? What were the headlines?
What did the big cities look like on New Years Eve?
Were people picketing? What did their signs say?
III. Questions about the consequences of fear
How many people were diagnosed with anxiety as the result of Y2K?
How were the banks / the stock market affected?
IV. Questions about its effects today
Is there still anxiety over the world coming to a specific end?
Do we have more confidence in our social structures now since nothing actually went wrong?
4. Researching your topic professionally to find answers for your questions
- Where should we look for quality research?
- How do we know if a website is reliable? Are you familiar the C.R.A.P. test?
- Skim websites quickly to see if they will answer your questions (or spark new questions).
- Copy and paste website URLs into your research document.
5. Starting to develop an annotated bibliography to gather and assess research
HW:
1. Before class tomorrow, please make sure you have generated plentiful Level 1, 2, and 3 questions, you have organized your questions into categories, and you have gathered URLs for your research.
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2. Study your Puritan List 1 words for our brief assessment tomorrow.
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