Saturday, March 15, 2008

Glorified science fair?

This is the example on the AERA(American Educational Research Association) website informing me how I should make a poster for this "poster session" I'm doing next week in NYC: There are several problems with this example:
  1. I can't read it. Can you?
  2. I don't have any snazzy "literacy" graphics
  3. I don't have any data collected, so I don't know what to put in the "data collection" section
  4. I haven't passed the Institutional Review Board, so it's not okay to put any written student work on the poster. I'm staying on this side of caution, as per usual, so my poster is gonna be hella boring.
  5. I haven't done the research yet, so my only conclusion for the "conclusion" section is that perhaps my project does not yet belong in this grad school science fair...

It's sort of ironic that in preparing for an "education" conference, no one has really told me what my homework is, given me an exemplar and a non-exemplar, or scaffolded my learning so I could be successful and feel that I've achieved something in publishing my ideas....ironique.

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