A9.4: Week 9 Participation Memo

Deidra Darst

10/21/07

Aims and Objectives: 
My personal goal with regard to this week of CD 315 was to complete my assignments by Sunday.  I wanted to spend most of my Sunday afternoon finding research articles and working on my Object Box project for CD 424.  I set out to do this because I will have a very busy week ahead and want to get a good start on my CD 315 research project.   

Declarative Knowledge: 

This week I learned more about photo-visual literacy.  Aphek’s website about this type of literacy provided postive and negative views towards adapting educational curricula to meet the standards of technology.   I will spend the rest of my day researching my research question, and I hope to learn much about facilitating reading literacy skills in the second language of bilingual preschool children. 

Procedural Knowledge:  

This week I learned how to tweak my research question in order to have the best research results.  Mrs. McComas helped me narrow my question more than I had already done.  In order to do this, I had to think about what I wanted to learn from the completion of this project.  I considered my research question – “How can speech-language pathologists help to improve English literacy skills in bilingual children?”  Because ”English literacy” was too broad, I decided that I really wanted to understand how children learn to read in their second language.  I think that speech-language pathologists can help facilitate these literacy skills.  My current research question is “How can speech-language pathologists help facilitate the development of literacy skills necessary for reading in the second language of bilingual preschool children?” 

Conditional Knowledge:
The knowledge I gained this week is improving my research skills.  It is also aiding me in creating a more researchable question.  As a student I need to have knoweldge about photo-visual literacy skills because they constitute an important facet of my learning situations.  As a pre-professional, it has been brought to my attention the potential for learning that exists via photo-visual literacy skills.  I could one day use this knowledge to help facilitate learning for my future clients.  As a citizen, I can use photo-visual literacy to further increase my knowledge base.