Week 25

I keep getting myself in a spin… I changed my literature review question so many times as I continued to read deeper into the research. I ended up with this question - What is the impact of digital learning on the New Zealand curriculum and teaching pedagogy? I wrote my literature review with a key Kaupapa Maori focus, woven into each subtheme. However for some unknown reason I deleted New Zealand from my question at the last minute and am now having serious writers regret over my final submitted question being…. What is the impact of digital learning on students learning the curriculum and teaching pedagogy?

Now that I am beginning to think about the next assignment I do not want to end up with the same feeling after submitting it so would love some help with clarity before I get too swamped down with assignment 2.

My original focus was around leading teachers to make a digital change and the research I discovered during my literature review was very focused on teachers needing professional development to teach students digital learning across the curriculum. I decided that I did not want to focus on how to lead change but on the research that I would need to support the reasons behind changing pedagogy to being more digitally focused.

After all this ramble….. I am left pondering my teacher inquiry topic/question for the next assignment. Currently I am thinking…

How can shifting pedagogy through professional development support digital learning and teaching in the New Zealand curriculum?

Week 25 - post literature review thoughts

I finally submitted my literature review! I ended up with a further revised question as a I narrowed the scope.

I feel some relief with having worked so hard on it to now have it completed however I also feel nervous with still having about 6 tabs of research articles open on my laptop that I would have loved to have used. I just did not have the word count to include them all. I will forever be left wondering if some of the articles could have been better to use than the ones that I used... wondering if some of them had better links across the sub themes of my topic.... however I needed to commit to what I had done. Maybe I can use them for further research projects.

Hopefully I can be proud of what I have achieved.

Week 24 - Literature Review Thoughts

I have been doing lots of reading to answer the question posed in my previous blog post. Once I started reading I found that my question was almost two questions, one on leadership and one on digital learning.

Once I had reflected on that, I found that I was being pulled to the digital learning readings and delving more into that research.

I reflected on what I wanted to achieve from this inquiry... I want to support my team in introducing a new digital initiative of SeeSaw. Once I began to think about the team of teachers that I will be leading I found that the issues that may arise could be around why? Why are we starting a new digital initiative? This made me wonder if my literature review should focus on digital learning and its impact on students and teachers so I can use the research findings to support my change initiative.

Therefore my teacher inquiry is likely to still be focusing on leading change but the research of the literature review will hopefully support me in doing this through justification of the digital learning on student engagement, curriculum and pedagogy.