21st Century Scholar

As this blog is being published, I find it amusingly coincidental that I am traveling through some of the United States’ most earthquake-prone areas to get to the USRio+2.0 Conference: Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. It is a conference that is co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of State that [...]

My interest in college readiness includes organizations and individual actors; therefore, the case study methodology is an appropriate research tradition. After receiving approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB), and gaining entrée and access to the respective case, the data collection begins. However, one of the first elements established for my projects is determining reciprocity: [...]

Thursday is TechDay Today’s Thursday is TechDay blog is an introduction to the future of qualitative research software: the online platform. If you haven’t heard the news, there’s a new qualitative software player in town. It’s called Dedoose, and it’s worth a look for two reasons. First, within the qualitative research community, it pioneers the [...]

This week 21st Century Scholar is delighted to host Linda Serra Hagedorn as our guest blogger.  Linda Serra Hagedorn is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, and professor at Iowa State University.  Dr. Hagedorn’s research focuses on college student success.  She is especially interested in issues pertaining to underrepresented student groups, and equity.  Prior to joining [...]

by Randy Clemens My sisters and I used to trick or treat, collecting our candy in sleeping bags. A successful Halloween night ended with tired legs and a mound of sugary confections to sort through. A good bounty included quality stuff like full-sized candy bars and hand-fulls of Sweetarts. Pennies, candy corn, tootsie rolls, and [...]

by Bill Tierney Call me crazy, but I have long enjoyed reading the writing of students.   Every now and then someone puts together a nifty sentence, paragraph or paper, and I still get a rush of excitement at his or her accomplishment.  I also enjoy watching someone’s work improve over time. I always have offered [...]

by Bill Tierney I have been fortunate to have had excellent teachers throughout my entire education.  I was thinking recently how many of those teachers taught me lessons outside of class.  Mr. Taylor was my American history teacher in high school and I worked for him in the summers (two bucks an hour!) doing odd [...]

by Randy Clemens In my second year of teaching, I had the privilege of teaching two ninth grade honors classes. The students were the most precocious that I’ve ever encountered. I would dream up lesson plans on the weekend, and they would repay my daring during the week. I remember creating Club Verona for a [...]

Los Angeles has, arguably, the best symphony in the United States at the moment.   Our conductor, Esa Pekka Salonen, made a good symphony great.  Over the last dozen years, Angelenos have had a love affair with him, and he has loved Los Angeles in return.  When he announced his retirement there was a great deal [...]

My research interests focus on how youth use new technologies and the effects of this use on their social development and learning. I’m constantly reading about new technologies, gadgets, video games, and platforms. Naturally, I am skeptical when I read blogs and pieces from folks who are “social media gurus” that decry how backwards education [...]