Understand the Study
Read the proposal overview, explore the theoretical framework, and trace the intellectual history of pedagogical friction and tertiary algorithmicity.
Dissertation Ecosystem Hub
Pedagogical Friction in the Age of Generative AI
This hub organizes the public and committee-facing materials for Micah J. Miner's qualitative-dominant convergent mixed methods study grounded in constructivist qualitative inquiry. Choose your path below.
Proposal defense passed August 13, 2026. NLU IRB approved the study as Exempt on October 7, 2026 (protocol ER01884), through October 7, 2027. Interview and survey-review invitations are open. The anonymous survey is not open until the approved form is live. The role pages remain read-only and do not collect responses.
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The ecosystem is divided into public explanation, committee defense preparation, and practitioner-facing simulations.
Inspect the Scholarship
Enter the preserved proposal defense studio. Review the claim-warrant ledger, trace the methods matrix, and explore the challenge deck used to prepare for the completed defense.
Apply or Experience
Review the approved study instruments for university students, K-12 educators, and administrators. These read-only pages may be displayed during approved interview sessions. They do not collect data.
What to expect
The interview pages display the approved question and card-sort wording (protocol ER01884). The researcher may display them during approved sessions as in-session support. They do not accept participant responses.
Current read-only state
- Response entry, browser recording, local saving, and file export are disabled.
- The pages do not send participant information to GitHub Pages or another service.
- The shared ten-card 05F sort appears only on the 05A and 05C pages.
- The 05B school/system-leader page contains no card sort.
- Any later activation must match the written IRB-approved protocol and data-management process.
Protocol boundaries
- NLU IRB approved the study as Exempt on October 7, 2026 (protocol ER01884). Interview and survey-review invitations are open on the recruitment page. The anonymous survey stays closed until the approved form is live. These instrument pages do not collect responses.
- The card sort is a separate optional activity for eligible 05A and 05C participants.
- Participants may skip any interview question or stop participation under the approved consent process.
- There are no correct responses; the study is interested in lived experience and professional judgment.
Researcher review links
These links support review of the public research site and instruments. They are not required for participant completion.
Researcher overview
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Dissertation hub
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IRB approved October 7, 2026. Interview and survey-review invitations are on the recruitment page. These instrument pages may be displayed during approved interview and card-sort sessions as in-session support. They do not collect data and are not used for survey validation or survey administration. The anonymous survey is not open.