CHYS 2P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Technology Integration, Railways Act 1921, Inductive Reasoning
20 Feb 2018
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What is a case study: involves the qualitative study of real life contemporary bounded system (context, setting) Develop an in depth understanding of a simple individual, group, subject, setting, event, set of documents. Explore an issue or problem using the case as an illustration. Case study of almost anything: a surgical patient in a hospital, technology integration in a classroom: the experiences of three teachers, videogame addition in tween, teen pregnancy in niagara, vampire subcultures: blood fetish. Goal of case study: gather enough information about the phenomena to effectively understand how it operates or functions, simple and focused, or complex and broad. Tuesday, march 21, 2017: identify the case: Concrete entity: individual, small group, organization. Multiple sources of information: observations, interviews, participation, focus groups, audiovisual, digital, documents, reports. The case of chris langan: highest iq: 200, profiled in omni, 20/20, popular science, esquire. He learned many things about the universe and cognition.
