{"id":674,"date":"2009-04-20T19:13:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2009-04-20T19:15:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T00:15:55","slug":"finding-a-research-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Research Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have taken notes on my initial and varied readings, and have written a list of questions.\u00a0 I took that text and created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\">wordle<\/a>, hoping it will lead to a more focused research question.\u00a0 No luck, still wandering aimlessly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wordle: Finding a Research Question\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/gallery\/wrdl\/765103\/Finding_a_Research_Question\"><img style=\"padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/thumb\/wrdl\/765103\/Finding_a_Research_Question\" alt=\"Wordle: Finding a Research Question\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am interested in a lot of seeming diverse topics but some how I feel there is a common tread that I just can&#8217;t grasp on to. Here goes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The education of the US founding fathers, their classical eduction and informal continued learning.  Was their letter writing, discussing the writing and thinking of the day, different from NING, email and IM of today.<\/li>\n<li>The rise of schools as we know them.<\/li>\n<li>Traditional vs Non-traditional education, in light of new access to information and learning.<\/li>\n<li>Moral and Ethical education of the present vs that of the past.  Would we be in the mess today if people thought of the long term consequences and the greater good instead of short term gain and immediate gratification?<\/li>\n<li>Citizenship and the need for critical and analytical thinking, as well as, information\/media literacy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I need focus any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have taken notes on my initial and varied readings, and have written a list of questions.\u00a0 I took that text and created a wordle, hoping it will lead to a more focused research question.\u00a0 No luck, still wandering aimlessly. I am interested in a lot of seeming diverse topics but some how I feel there is a common tread that I just can&#8217;t grasp on to. Here goes. The education of the US founding fathers, their classical eduction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=674\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}