Robertson I-RISE Congress Presentation

I titled my talk "Much Ado About Snippets" because I came in looking for something specific (more on this later) and mostly found snippets, rather than sustained conversation.  And I'm not sure yet what to do with them.

My research since coming to SPU has been shaped by a number of specific goals that I articulated at the beginning (and over the course) of the year: 

And although I feel I've made quite a bit of progress toward research paradigms and responsiveness, I've made little progress toward nature-of-science-y stuff (the bullets in red).  I was hoping to use my time as an I-RISE scholar to collect and clip video that I could use next year toward those goals.  In particular, I wanted to find at least one sustained conversation involving multiple participants (since I think learning is co-constructed), especially one in which the participants are surprised or frustrated (since I think surprise or frustration indicates violated expectations, and it seemed to me that this would be a good place to start to look for shifts in perceptions).

Instead, I found mostly snippets.

So I asked my fellow I-RISE scholars to help me think about what to do next.

We watched two episodes, the first that felt snippet-y to me and the second that felt more like a sustained conversation.

 (This episode can be found in the post linked here, and a copy of the transcript can be found here.)

 (And this episode can be found in the post linked here, and a copy of the transcript can be found here.)

Although I didn't get to it, I prepared a slide that described a few projects I feel inspired to do.