Thesis Seminar Week 1: Literature Review I

Review syllabus, workload schedule, and course guidelines (all available in Microsoft Teams).
Review key platforms used throughout the course: Microsoft Teams and Notion website.
Enter Microsoft Teams (Thesis Seminar) and rename one of the Word documents in the Thesis papers folder. Add to your Word document anything you want me to look at, which can include the literature review you wrote last semester in Academic Writing.
Review as a whole group a literature review; students review Unit I - Literature Review on their own.
Review the following:
- It’s not too soon to begin searching schools, teachers, students, etc. and getting permission - refer to the Informed consent form template in Teams.
- Steps to writing a literature review
- Tips when writing a literature review.
- Organizing a research paper
- Narrowing down a researchable topic

Reminder of 📝TS Task for Week 1 and weekly reflections (Week 1 reflection) in Microsoft Teams.
Discuss Narrowing down a researchable topic, Problem statement, and Thesis Statement And Skeleton Outline.
Review Online journals and databases to find peer-reviewed journal articles for your thesis paper.
Clarify prior topics as necessary: Unit of analysis, completing the Research matrix for thesis seminar, narrowing down a topic and problem, etc. Review Edtech search strategies.