My research focus (so far): discovering new trends in critical digital literacies in college students that also map to modern marketable skills. Populations I am targeting for future research are first-time-in-college, transfer, first generation.
Research projects will include: a systemic literature review, a mixed-methods study, and designing a new taxonomy for applying learning technology types to student learning outcomes based on student digital learner types.
Learning Motivation: "See a need, fill a need" (Bigweld, 2005). I confess that I twitch when I see redundancy in a system that could be more efficient, especially with human capital. I am the kind of person who puts the sugar in the cup BEFORE pouring the coffee to save myself time/energy stirring lol. The amount of redundant training, labor, evaluation, teaching and more that happens in neighboring offices, schools, departments, companies makes me wonder: if we could strategically disseminate information by share/merge/co-teach-ing where pedagogically it makes sense, we could spend more time creating, wondering, and tinkering with ideas that move the world forward? I may also be showing my hand in that I like to be at the 30k foot level with visionary, global ideas and try not to get into the "weeds" or operations of a project until I have to. I think that knowing the world around us is begotten from failure in working to shape and understand a perspective and having it broken or finding ideas/people who don’t fit that perspective causing us to remake our understanding of the world.
Core questions I have often asked over the last two decades:
How we design and build information frameworks
Why are people attracted to and use one over the other?
When does information transmute into knowledge?
AND then how do we manage it?
Language I enjoy parsing: skills, experience, learning, knowledge, wisdom
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