Nobuko Fujita, PhD

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  • Pattern Recognition

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    At IKIT Summer Institute 2008, I had the pleasure of meeting Peter Hayes, the Information Technologist for Roslyn Public Schools in New York. Over sushi dinner, he asked me to complete the sequence above. The clue here is the title of this entry, which is particularly appropriate given that the annual Sushi Night was inspired…

  • Lakatos

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    A while back, while writing my AERA 2007 paper, I became fascinated by Imre Lakatos. Here are some resources I found helpful: The London School of Economics and Political Science has a website commemorating the life and work of Imre Lakatos (1922-74) on his 80th birthday. Both mp3 and text versions of Science and Pseudoscience…

  • IKIT Summer Institute 2008

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    Here’s a snapshot of a session I attended this morning at the IKIT Summer Institute called Principle-Based Teacher Development: Advances and Issues (left to right: Kimberley Mackinnon, Suzanne DeFroy, Clare Brett, Thérèse Laferrière, Katerine Bielaczyc, Carol Chan) And some more from lunch with Thérèse, Stephane, Ana and Chris taken on my Nokia cell phone and…

  • Dr. Wendy E. Freeman

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    Here’s Dr. Freeman at her new office at Ryerson 🙂 It is now readily apparent that she is a faculty member!

  • ICLS 2008

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    More recently, I was at ICLS 2008 in Utrecht, NL, where I participated in a First Timers Workshop and presented a paper based on my dissertation research. The First Timers Workshop organized by Marcia Linn, Janet Kolodner, and Naomi Miyake was fantastic. Here is the workshop description: The First Timers Mentoring Workshop is designed to…

  • TaTE Preconference at CSSE 2008

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    In my last entry I indicated that I will blog about what I have been up to in the last couple of months in more detail. So, here goes. At the end of May, I participated in a TatE preconference workshop at CSSE 2008. Norma Nocente, Thérèse Laferrière, and Renée Fontaine organized an exciting workshop,…

  • Hiatus

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    After a disconcerting hiatus from blogging as a result of utter immersion in thesis writing, I am back again. What was immensely confusing to me about WordPress while under thesis duress seems rather straightforward now that my dissertation draft is in to the committee. A lot of progress has been gained on all of my…

  • Email: Killer app of the internet?

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    While procrastinating from transcribing an interview with a student teacher for the IWB research, I watched an episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin called “Socializing Online” on TVO. Among the guests on the show was Nancy Baym . I have cited Baym before in my own research, and have more recently revisited her work…

  • Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge

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    In an attempt to get ready for CSSE in Vancouver in May, I’ve started to write on the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framework and review relevant literature on IWB. In visiting the wiki on TPCK, I stumbled upon two professor blogs: Matthew J. Koehler’s and Punya Mishra’s At a recent departmental defense, it was mentioned that blogging is not a practice that…

  • Observing SMARTBoard lessons

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    In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been part of a research team observing three teacher candidate and associate teacher pairs infuse interactive whiteboard technology into their lessons at a partnership school. So far, I’ve seen two of the three pairs, and am returning to see a second lesson of one of the pairs on…