{"id":896,"date":"2008-10-12T06:51:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=896"},"modified":"2008-10-12T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T10:53:51","slug":"the-power-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/10\/12\/the-power-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded today by two bright young student researchers of the <strong>power<\/strong> of research into education, its extents, dependencies and implications &#8212; for <em>inspiration<\/em> and motivation for all manner of work as well as to help solve fundamental problems in <strong>empowerment<\/strong>.\u00a0 For those readers interested in helping organize research about OLPC, large-scale educational efforts, and uses of technology in education, please subscribe and share your background and ideas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>http:\/\/lists.laptop.org\/listinfo\/research <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or post to <em><strong>research<\/strong> &gt;at&lt; lists.laptop.org. <\/em>That list includes members from unicef, world bank, global development and university (education, government, economics, politics, sociology); while it is not currently active, it includes people who are already engaged with some few trials of their own; and many are waiting for a serious project they can engage in.\u00a0 Others are simply waiting to have a project description to post (<strong>Suresh<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer<\/strong>, I&#8217;m looking at you).\u00a0 I should like to see it revived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded today by two bright young student researchers of the power of research into education, its extents, dependencies and implications &#8212; for inspiration and motivation for all manner of work as well as to help solve fundamental problems in empowerment.\u00a0 For those readers interested in helping organize research about OLPC, large-scale educational efforts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-es","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}