Research Programme 

Session 0: Field Notes

• What are field notes
• Let's document our time here
• (field notes can do double duty as research content and social media/p2pu promo :)). 
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• Field notes activity! (go out into the world and see that world as research) 
  • take 5 facts that happened yesterday and do an analysis of them (cf. scratch does this). 
  • gets at the difference btween reflection and field notes
  • everything that you are a part of is data.
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Session 1: Research Workshop

• research questions that p2pu inspires or that can be studied using p2pu platform
• keep it casual--make it fun--it can be woven into other activities
• ask people to brainstorm ahead of time- what are thier burning questions? what would they like to know more about? 
  • figure out together how to approach answering it, maybe bainstorm rough outline etc. (or whatever makes sense)
  • (hopeful result: research collaboratations! w00t)
• who do you want to talk to?/who do you want to hear from? and how long? ("what voice do you want to pull out from the fray?"+1
  • get a sense of qualitative and quantitative aspects
  • how do you get there? (to hearing from them)
    • pulling metrics/designing metrics
    • software?--design research (veeeeeery interesting jessy)
    • survey questions
    • Interview
    • Ethnography
    • mathematics
    • Direct observation
    • Examining artifacts
    • Survey
    • Personal reflection and experience
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• generate personally meaningful questions
• brainstorm them on a whiteboard
• cluster them into groups/categories -> abstract hypotheses into more general questions+10 
• attempt to develop/outline how to approach each cluster? 
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• ex. P & C both have questions about why people decide to sign up for a class
  • what resources do we have to explore those questions
  • what existing data do we have
  • what new data might we want to gather/experiements do we want to run/people we want to talk to?
  • who might be able to review/advise/be a human resource for this project/THING? (part of who do we want to talk to)
  • tihnk of your friends as part of the project, get their advice. 
  • next/first steps-->pull content from Jessy's Challenge on Open Science Content: http://pad.p2pu.org/p/opensciencecontent
  • pointing people towards p2pu project space/research space, or other platforms/venues/tools to move forward on? 
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• Closing pontification: How is this generalizable knowledge?
  • How do we apply these models to our everyday lives?
  • Quant: reliable results, prediction
  • Qual: translatability, co-existing models 
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Session 2: Brown Bag with Selections from Research Homestead (over beer? over coffee?)

• researchers' homestead in the flesh
• continue coordinating w online component
• maybe skype them in?
• discuss papers in person

Session 3: Lightening Talks about Research

• totally opt in
• get people to sign up to give 5 minute lightning talk
• eg. Jessy abt CERN stuff
• work people developed/did during the pop up office month
• video tape them, put them online

Parkings lots (putting it on the stack): [the fascinating discussion we had about learning projects and flexible requirements]
- design research
- challenges 
- project based approach 
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how can we make this issue a learning experience for someone else?

personal study sessions-->i dont want to follow lists that other people have made for me
still a centralized model

General quotes of awesomeness: "i disagree with the way your sense of reality is constructed."

• "your friends aren't lab rats"