Somebody asked about my research and so I started to rethink what I thought have forgotten. This is what I have now. I don't know if this is good enough, but I need to try at least. Reposting here from an email I sent to the 'medium' who happens to be as good as the message.
March 2011
What has been at the back of my mind since I started with my small gradeschool and getting involved with my open university is the idea of a virtual HS. Why? Simply because I believe not all children are meant to end up in the big private Catholic schools we have nor the public HS which are in a worse situation. There has to be other alternatives.
But this has been a bugger for me as I may have a keen sense of what can work but I need research to back me up. I'm not even sure whether I should get into a virtual HS as I have gradeschool to take care of.
However, the least thing I can do for now is to research about it in answer to the ff questions:
1) What's a good model to do a Virtual HS? ( for homeschoolers, school leavers=out of school youth and students coming from progressive grade schools who are most likely to consider this)
2) What's the best platform to launch this?
3) What other things should be planned for to assure its efficiency, effectivity and sustainability for the end users ?
The above research should be based on prior studies related to:
-the state of Alternative Learning Systems in the Phil for homeschoolers and school leavers
-gaps in the implementation of these: whether curr related or delivery related
-current learning needs of prospective learners
-curriculum targets of HS (local Dept of Educ requirements)
-the state of Virtual HS in developing countries
-platforms which are out there which can make Virtual HS happen (ex how does VHS operate in US-based Open Universities and is WizIQ in fact a better alternative...but if no research about it yet, what proves its efficiency and "power"? perhaps WiziQ stats in terms of classes for HS levels!!!)
And since I am looking for a good working model of a VHS, the research needs to arrive at:
-recommended model of VHS using an effective platform for Filipino learners
-other areas which may not be met by current virtual platform and hence have to be sourced out or developed
-mechanisms to monitor student learning and teaching effectiveness
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Autoethno Paper w/ Ani on Inquiry Learning
The initial writing for this paper happened 2009.
I was able to present my side of the paper at PECERA Conference.
This year, Ani and I not only plan to redo the paper using autoethnography but also submit it for publication: Inquiry Learning in 2 Progressive Schools: Sample Learning Projects. Target conference: 2011 Asian Literacy Conference.
There you go....now what's an alternate to that? Another paper is budding in my brain which relates to Online Teaching. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do both.
I was able to present my side of the paper at PECERA Conference.
This year, Ani and I not only plan to redo the paper using autoethnography but also submit it for publication: Inquiry Learning in 2 Progressive Schools: Sample Learning Projects. Target conference: 2011 Asian Literacy Conference.
There you go....now what's an alternate to that? Another paper is budding in my brain which relates to Online Teaching. Ideally, I'd like to be able to do both.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Reposting Prior Blogs on Homeschooling+Online Teaching+Virtual HS
AS OF SEPT 2008
PLAN D: Program Development of an Online Learning Component
for Grades 6-8 Homeschoolers
-a needs assessment, and curriculum development plan and implementation of distance education for home schoolers
What now: Not prepared to do this as I need an MDDE...but the idea of studying again under this UPOU program excites me
AS OF OCTOBER 2008
What Matters to Me the Most:
1) That the research should be able to sustain my attention for 6 months to 1 year
2) That the research can only be significantly done and achieved through my degree
3) That I be able to contribute a product which a community
can readily use
4) That it is achievable within the maximum time I can devote my attention to it amidst all the other things in my life
5) That the research
AS OF JUNE 2009
What Research Says about Instructional Design Models of Online Learning for High School Home schoolers
Aims
-to investigate what current research says about online learning and high school homeschoolers
-to describe current and effective instructional models of online learning for high schoolers
-to draw out implications pertaining to developing a model for FIlipino homeschoolers
HMMMMM....
PLAN D: Program Development of an Online Learning Component
for Grades 6-8 Homeschoolers
-a needs assessment, and curriculum development plan and implementation of distance education for home schoolers
What now: Not prepared to do this as I need an MDDE...but the idea of studying again under this UPOU program excites me
AS OF OCTOBER 2008
What Matters to Me the Most:
1) That the research should be able to sustain my attention for 6 months to 1 year
2) That the research can only be significantly done and achieved through my degree
3) That I be able to contribute a product which a community
can readily use
4) That it is achievable within the maximum time I can devote my attention to it amidst all the other things in my life
5) That the research
AS OF JUNE 2009
What Research Says about Instructional Design Models of Online Learning for High School Home schoolers
Aims
-to investigate what current research says about online learning and high school homeschoolers
-to describe current and effective instructional models of online learning for high schoolers
-to draw out implications pertaining to developing a model for FIlipino homeschoolers
HMMMMM....
Sunday, March 6, 2011
How Poor the Poor Can Get
Reposting from UPOU Community Site blog dated March 6, 2011
I was in Mumbai for a few days, before and after my paper presentation over at Pune, Maharashtra. A good friend of mine booked me a walking trip to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum where a population of Tamils, Muslims, and Hindus reside while conveniently making a living out of all sorts of garbage. Since my olfactory sense is quite keen, I prepared my nose of course for all kinds of scents. I prepared my heart as well as I would not know how to react upon seeing the poor having been merely exposed to the usual sight of poverty in the Philippines.
To my surprise, I ended up breathing in the people and their ways....the sight of ingenuity and spirit of survival against all odds and accepting this as part of life is what overwhelmed me the most.
I tried to imagine what it was like living here at Dharavi. Since rent is cheap and close to other forms of jobs in the city, perhaps I shall give it a try if that's the only option for the moment. Then the moments would grow into days, weeks, months and years of doing the same work, earning a little, enough to spend for clothes or a good phone or to offer my loved ones someplace else. Then living in a square space should do. With all the routine and humdrum of city life, would I even care to dream new dreams, or travel back to where I once belonged? No way. I simply have to tell myself to keep on with whatever comes as I'm here anyway. This place then becomes my home and a choice I shall live with. If this is what poor means to the rest of the world, then let poverty be my lifestyle.
From the highways/bridgeways, the shantis seem to me like an image of block houses of mud or clay in towns or villages right outside some royalty's abode of long ago—where the merchants and markets are, where real people are....only the time and settings have changed. Yet howcome a Filipino such as I and even today never felt unsafe as I took all forms of travel within Mumbai-Pune. Moving through the crowd and with the people was like second skin to me and I took in as much as I could in the same way I do whenever I take the public transport in Manila.
And so I do not leave Dharavi with pity nor carry with me any stench. Instead I carry memories of people living the way they do. I am in no position to judge parents and worry about their children's health and education. But I worry more about this rich man I saw who easily parked his BMW amidst his people to maybe arrange for delivery of goods/payments as he'd rather spend his money on his everything else than invest on safer working conditions for his fellowmen and their children...how rich can the rich get then? I'd rather not know.
What I have now with me is the India I choose to embrace and still dream of coming back to -- an old friend and a new one, a bigger territory I know I can navigate myself in, with people who have accepted this country as their home and will manage to get somewhere, not on any other nation's terms but theirs.
I was in Mumbai for a few days, before and after my paper presentation over at Pune, Maharashtra. A good friend of mine booked me a walking trip to Dharavi, Asia's largest slum where a population of Tamils, Muslims, and Hindus reside while conveniently making a living out of all sorts of garbage. Since my olfactory sense is quite keen, I prepared my nose of course for all kinds of scents. I prepared my heart as well as I would not know how to react upon seeing the poor having been merely exposed to the usual sight of poverty in the Philippines.
To my surprise, I ended up breathing in the people and their ways....the sight of ingenuity and spirit of survival against all odds and accepting this as part of life is what overwhelmed me the most.
I tried to imagine what it was like living here at Dharavi. Since rent is cheap and close to other forms of jobs in the city, perhaps I shall give it a try if that's the only option for the moment. Then the moments would grow into days, weeks, months and years of doing the same work, earning a little, enough to spend for clothes or a good phone or to offer my loved ones someplace else. Then living in a square space should do. With all the routine and humdrum of city life, would I even care to dream new dreams, or travel back to where I once belonged? No way. I simply have to tell myself to keep on with whatever comes as I'm here anyway. This place then becomes my home and a choice I shall live with. If this is what poor means to the rest of the world, then let poverty be my lifestyle.
From the highways/bridgeways, the shantis seem to me like an image of block houses of mud or clay in towns or villages right outside some royalty's abode of long ago—where the merchants and markets are, where real people are....only the time and settings have changed. Yet howcome a Filipino such as I and even today never felt unsafe as I took all forms of travel within Mumbai-Pune. Moving through the crowd and with the people was like second skin to me and I took in as much as I could in the same way I do whenever I take the public transport in Manila.
And so I do not leave Dharavi with pity nor carry with me any stench. Instead I carry memories of people living the way they do. I am in no position to judge parents and worry about their children's health and education. But I worry more about this rich man I saw who easily parked his BMW amidst his people to maybe arrange for delivery of goods/payments as he'd rather spend his money on his everything else than invest on safer working conditions for his fellowmen and their children...how rich can the rich get then? I'd rather not know.
What I have now with me is the India I choose to embrace and still dream of coming back to -- an old friend and a new one, a bigger territory I know I can navigate myself in, with people who have accepted this country as their home and will manage to get somewhere, not on any other nation's terms but theirs.
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