Digital Scholarship Guide: Education
Essential Skills and Tools
Dissemination
- Digital dissemination platforms like StoryMaps can help you showcase innovative lesson plans and student work
- Showcase your career and research online with a custom website.
Collect Survey Data
Are you interested in collecting data about individuals’ social experiences? Consider designing a survey? Learn the best practices for survey design. There are a number of platforms, many of which can support collection, storage, and analysis of responses.
Text Analysis
Teachers can take these recommendations and 1) reshape them for their own K-12 classroom 2) conduct research about education/adjacent fields.
- Unpack the impact of word choices. Use analytical tools to measure the occurrence of key words and phrases, as well as authors’ tone.
- Historiography unpacks how scholarly conversations shift over time. Examine the historiography of your particular education sub-field. JSTOR and SCOPUS have embedded visualization tools and you can use them to model how topics changed, and put word choice and themes in context with broader sociocultural events.
Spatial Analysis
- GIS (Geographic Information Systems) allows you to map census data, overlay features (e.g. schools) and explore spatial correlations
Data Management and Visualizations
- If you’re doing research about education systems, data management is critical. Think about all of the lists you’re collecting – names, dates, places, etc. Learn how to effectively store these in a spreadsheet and how you can format your entries to support future analyses.
Digital K-12 Educators at Brandeis
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Digital K-12 Training Resources
Coming Soon!
Digital K-12 Publications
This Zotero library is regularly updated with publications discussing digital scholarship’s impact on Archaeology.
Many thanks to Sonja Kleper '24 for contributing to this page. This page was last updated on August 20, 2024. If you would like to contribute, please contact Dr. Natalie Susmann.