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Integrating Academic Literacy into Contemporary Learning: What We Learned from an Indonesian EFL Classroom
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Indah Werdiningsih; Kardi Nurhadi; Utami Widiati; Siti Muniroh – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Academic literacy has evolved significantly over the past two decades, expanding beyond basic reading and writing skills to include a broad range of competencies essential for successful modern education. These competencies - skilled communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy - are crucial for preparing students to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
"The Profit": Using Reality TV to Teach Management Theories and Strategies
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Quain, Bill; Bokunewicz, Jane F.; Criscione-Naylor, Noel M. – Cogent Education, 2018
Instructors are constantly challenged to compete for student attention. The authors of this article discuss how they are stimulating their students using reality TV shows to teach management theories and strategies. Using reality TV shows has helped to captivate students and has resulted in higher levels of learning according to Bloom's Revised…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Teaching Methods, Television Viewing, Taxonomy
Market Area Delineation: A Classroom Exercise
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Tokosh, Joe – Geography Teacher, 2017
Teaching approaches in economic geography traditionally cover the effects of deindustrialization on the landscape but offer less insight into the development of services as a prominent sector, because of the longer histories of manufacturing and industrial economies (Moore and Hunt 2016). Incorporating services into economic geography curricula…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Lesson Plans, Class Activities
Student Research for Community Change: Tools to Develop Ethical Thinking and Analytic Problem Solving
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Tobin, William; Feit, Valerie – Teachers College Press, 2020
New research points to the future of education as online, student-centered, collaborative, and community-based--all largely absent from today's educational landscape. This timely guide shows middle, high school, and college students how to undertake research to address challenges in their curriculum and communities. The approach is deliberately…
Descriptors: Student Research, Community Change, Ethics, Problem Solving
Digital Systems Supporting Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Twenty-First Century: Guest Editorial
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Spector, J. Michael; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Sampson, Demetrios G. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2016
Digital systems and digital technologies are globally investigated for their potential to transform learning, teaching and assessment towards offering unique learning experiences to the twenty-first century learners. This Special Issue on "Digital systems supporting cognition and exploratory learning in twenty-first century" aims to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Cognitive Processes, Discovery Learning, Educational Psychology
An Investigation into a Problem-Solving Strategy for Indefinite Integration and Its Effect on Test Scores of General Calculus Students.
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Kallam, Linda G.; Kallam, Michael – 1996
Problem solving in mathematics incorporates abstract thinking skills, number logic skills, and a nearly endless list of other factors. One problem-solving task required in university-level mathematics courses is integration. This study investigated instructor presentation of a specific problem-solving strategy and whether it impacted performance…
Descriptors: Calculus, Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, College Students