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Furman, Cara; Karno, Donna – Ethics and Education, 2023
This paper examines teacher discourse and the building of culture circles in an asynchronous collaborative blog that combined two different classes in an Early Childhood MS Ed program. Social speech is often considered non-rational. Coupling grounded theory to analyze speech patterns with relational ethics, we argue that teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites
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Hu, Xiao; Cheong, Christy Weng-Lam; Chu, Samuel Kai-Wah – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
TRACT This study develops a framework for analyzing student comments in Wikis of group writing to inform learning assessment. It first drew on the literature to develop a framework consisting of three modules measuring student interaction, meaning construction and thinking development in the writing process. Inservice teachers were interviewed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Discourse Analysis, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cai, Zhiqiang; Graesser, Arthur C.; Windsor, Leah C.; Cheng, Qinyu; Shaffer, David W.; Hu, Xiangen – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) plays an important role in analyzing text data from education settings. LSA represents meaning of words and sets of words by vectors from a k-dimensional space generated from a selected corpus. While the impact of the value of k has been investigated by many researchers, the impact of the selection of documents and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Nicholson, Julie; Shimpi, Priya Mariana – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Two case studies describe how two women, enrolled in an undergraduate course on play, were guided to examine play across their lifespan, critique the barriers that led to a decline in their play from childhood to young adulthood, and engage in cycles of documentation, dialogue, and analysis of their adult play experiences in order to discover…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Play, Case Studies, Undergraduate Students
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Sweeney, Meghan – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
Whenever the author teaches English 102, a research-focused, second-semester composition course, at least one student asks her whether or not she "allows" Wikipedia. She then redesigned her course to leverage Wikipedia as a source of inquiry. In other words, she "allows" Wikipedia, but through the Wikipedia project, which is designed to address…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Writing (Composition), Student Research
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Garcia-Sanchez, Soraya; Rojas-Lizana, Sol – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2012
This article aims to demonstrate how the use of an online journal, a bilingual blog, can contribute to filling in the language and cultural gaps of foreign language learners. This case study focuses on the participation, interaction, motivation, language acquisition, feedback and cultural input improved by students of Spanish as a Foreign Language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Web Sites