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Maples, Joellen – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2010
This paper explores a middle school teacher's and his students' perceptions of the differences between online synchronous literature discussions and face-to-face literature discussions. Each member of this literature group participated in two face-to-face and two online literature discussions. Participants were interviewed twice to discuss their…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Computer Mediated Communication, Literary Criticism
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Mendez, Edith Prentice; Sherin, Miriam Gamoran; Louis, David A. – Elementary School Journal, 2007
In this article we examine the development, over 1 year, of mathematical discourse communities in 2 eighth-grade mathematics classes in a suburban public middle school. The curriculum topics included probability, functions, graphing, data analysis, and pre-algebra. The 50 students were heterogeneously placed; most were from upper-middle-class…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Data Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Discussion (Teaching Technique)