{"id":1,"date":"2011-01-15T01:26:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-01-17T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:43:24","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/2011\/01\/15\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Paradigms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try to\u00a0write out one research question or topic\u00a0for\u00a0each\u00a0of the 4 paradigms.\u00a0Label your questionsusing the Sipe and Constable categories of: positivist, interpretivist, critical theory and deconstructivist.<\/p>\n<p>I teach grade 2\/3 French Immersion (except I&#8217;m on maternity leave right now) which means that I teach every subject in French and students are suppose to speak French to me and each other all day. Primary in B.C. means grades 1 to 3. Students are between the ages of 5 and 9.<\/p>\n<p>My topics refer to teaching and learning French which could be further broken down into spelling, writing, oral language, reading etc. To simplify things a bit, I&#8217;m just referring to French, in general.<\/p>\n<p>Positivist &#8211; Are primary French Immersion (F.I.) teachers in British Columbia using smartboards to encourage student centred learning of the French language?<\/p>\n<p>Interpretivist &#8211; What do primary F.I. teachers think is the best way to use smartboards to teach French?<\/p>\n<p>Critical Theory &#8211; How can school boards encourage primary F.I. teachers to use smartboards in a student centred way to teach French effectively?<\/p>\n<p>Deconstructivist &#8211; What is the most effective way to teach French in the primary F.I. classroom?<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>How can teachers most effectively teach French in the primary F.I. classroom using smartboards and a student centred approach?<\/p>\n<p>I cheated and gave two questions for the deconstructivist topic. I still a bit puzzled about this one. Deconstructivism seems to say there are no truths so initially I thought I&#8217;d leave out the assumption that smartboards and student centred learning are the best techniques for teaching French. Maybe I&#8217;m reading to much into it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try to\u00a0write out one research question or topic\u00a0for\u00a0each\u00a0of the 4 paradigms.\u00a0Label your questionsusing the Sipe and Constable categories of: positivist, interpretivist, critical theory and deconstructivist. I teach grade 2\/3 French Immersion (except I&#8217;m on maternity leave right now) which means that I teach every subject in French and students are suppose to speak French to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module_1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/500tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}