Global Academic with expertise in Pedagogy, Digital Literacy, & Qualitative Research Methods
As I draft this post, education and life remain disrupted by COVID-19, right now mostly due to the rapidly spreading omicron variant. The University of Rochester’s spring semester has been moved online to help slow the spread in Monroe County, where the 7-day average for new cases has continued to climb to numbers we’ve not…
Well, not really, but the surveys have all been entered Just today, the fabulous Master’s student who has been helping us with our research, Anjar, let me know that he’d finished entering all of the survey responses into our data management system. 618 That’s how many survey responses we have! I’m thrilled. Now the sense-making…
In the last month, Puji and I, with the help of Anjar (a super-helpful student pursuing his Master’s in English Education at UNNES), have collected more than 500 survey responses from secondary students in the area. We’re learning a great deal from them about when and how they access technology, for what purposes, where they…
I am thrilled to be able to report that last week, Puji and I began collecting data for our research project: The Digital Literacies of Indonesian Secondary Students: An Exploration to Inform Their Educators. After many delays, we were able to get into two junior high schools and one senior high school on Thursday and…
The Critical Processes of Negotiating Access and Developing Understanding “All research protocols and permission documents will be created and translated into Indonesian, and human subjects research approval will be secured, prior to departure.” (Lammers, 2018, p. 3 of Fulbright Project Statement) I had such a lofty plan for what the timeline of my research in…
Last week in Brisbane, Australia, I had the opportunity to participate in the Association of Internet Researchers Conference and the pre-conference gathering of the Young, Creative, Connected Network. We met on the beautiful urban Gardens Point campus of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), adjacent to the Botanical Gardens, in Brisbane city center. Both events created…
Earlier this year, I found out that I was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant for a research project titled, “The Digital Literacies of Indonesian Secondary Students: An Exploration to Inform Their Educators.” From September 2019 – February 2020, I will be hosted by Dr. Puji Astuti and her colleagues at State University of Semarang/Universitas…