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Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Viana, Adriana Backx Noronha, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2020
These proceedings contain the papers of the 7th International Conference on Educational Technologies 2020 (ICEduTech 2020), which has been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the University of São Paulo ("Universidade de São Paulo"), Brazil, from 5 to 7 February 2020.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Graduate Students
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Witherspoon, Lisa; Manning, John P. – American Journal of Play, 2012
The authors examine technology-driven games--especially active gaming--as an evolving form of children's play. They offer an overview of play and its developmental benefits, describe the literature on the emergence of technology-driven play, and reflect on the diminishment of physical play in contemporary culture. They suggest that active gaming,…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Games, Computer Games, Video Games
Dunbar, Norah E.; Wilson, Scott N.; Adame, Bradley J.; Elizondo, Javier; Jensen, Matthew L.; Miller, Claude H.; Kauffman, Abigail Allums; Seltsam, Toby; Bessarabova, Elena; Vincent, Cindy; Straub, Sara K.; Ralston, Ryan; Dulawan, Christopher L.; Ramirez, Dennis; Squire, Kurt; Valacich, Joseph S.; Burgoon, Judee K. – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2013
This paper describes the process of rapid iterative prototyping used by a research team developing a training video game for the Sirius program funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). Described are three stages of development, including a paper prototype, and builds for alpha and beta testing. Game development is…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Design, Cognitive Processes, Bias
Kerr, Deirdre; Chung, Gregory K. W. K. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2013
Student mathematical errors are rarely random and often occur because students are applying procedures that they believe to be accurate. Traditional approaches often view such errors as indicators of students' failure to understand the construct in question, but some theorists view errors as opportunities for students to expand their mental model…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Video Games, Mathematics, Misconceptions
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Johnstone, Avril; Hughes, Adrienne R.; Reilly, John J. – Scottish Educational Review, 2019
It is widely accepted that children in Scotland, as in other high-income countries, are not engaging in sufficient moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity (MVPA), the consequences of which can be adverse for health and wellbeing. In this paper, it is contended that active play (a form of gross motor or total body movement in which…
Descriptors: Play, Physical Activity Level, Movement Education, Skill Development
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Lanford, Michael; Corwin, Zoë B.; Maruco, Tattiya; Ochsner, Amanda – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2019
This article draws upon two conceptual frameworks--institutional culture in education and innovation studies--to contextualize findings from a digital intervention for underrepresented students applying to college. The qualitative data that inform this study's findings include 88 open-response surveys with school teachers, as well as campus…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Innovation, Disproportionate Representation, College Applicants
Yeh, Charles Y. C.; Cheng, Hercy N. H.; Chen, Zhi-Hong; Liao, Calvin C. Y.; Chan, Tak-Wai – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019
Conventional teacher-led instruction remains dominant in most elementary mathematics classrooms in Taiwan. Under such instruction, the teacher can rarely take care of all students. Many students may then continue to fall behind the standard of mathematics achievement and lose their interest in mathematics; they eventually give up on learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Learner Engagement, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Østergaard, Lars Domino – Sport, Education and Society, 2019
The time we live in is characterised by social and cultural changes, but teaching in physical education (PE) does not necessary match these changes. Consequently, the present project explored how second-order reflection (SoR) as a tradition-challenging and developing form of reflection can be stimulated by an inquiry-based learning (IBL) approach…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Active Learning, Inquiry, Transformative Learning
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Ferkel, Rick C.; Hutchinson, Zach T.; Razon, Selen; True, Larissa; Zupin, Dagny; Jones, Lani M.; Judge, Lawrence W. – Physical Educator, 2019
The health status and physical activity levels in the United States of adolescents and adults is disheartening. Many health professionals have been using the term exercise is medicine to advocate more physically active lifestyles. Unfortunately, the focus of most PE curriculums is directed toward a sport and game model, which research indicates…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Physical Education, Health Related Fitness, Adolescents
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Chen, Ming-Hsiu Mia – SAGE Open, 2019
This research focuses on elementary pupils' attitudes toward gender roles and the learning results from using two types of teaching materials, multimedia animation and a role-play transcript, based on the biographies of women in science, technology, and medicine. We selected two fifth-grade classes for the experiment, which was conducted during…
Descriptors: Biographies, Females, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Kukey, Ebru; Gunes, Habibe; Genc, Zulfu – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2019
One of the most common challenges expressed by classroom teachers in mathematics teaching and in the literature is the concretisation of abstract concepts in teaching basic subjects. Lego MoreToMath is a training set focusing on the mathematical lesson gains of elementary school first and second grade students. The aim of this study is to enable…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Experiential Learning, Instructional Materials, Computer Software
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Janebi Enayat, Mostafa; Haghighatpasand, Mohsen – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
Although adventure video games have been identified as effective tools for education, few studies have examined the usefulness of such games for language learning. The present classroom-based investigation, therefore, examined the possibility of exploiting commercial adventure video games for improving vocabulary recall of second language learners…
Descriptors: Video Games, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Özgur, Hasan – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Parenting styles, which are known to have a significant impact on the development of adolescents, also play an important role in the use of the child's internet and accompanying technologies. One of these effects is the actions and behaviors of the adolescent in the technology-rich environments. In this context, the research was conducted to…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Parenting Styles, Adolescent Development, Computer Games
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Brick, Billy; Cervi-Wilson, Tiziana; Graham, Sean; Tsankov, Tsvetan; Loizou, Michael; Godson, Nina; Ryan, Kelly – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper will report on a pilot Virtual Reality (VR) project which repurposes an existing scenario-based VR asset for health sciences. The original scenario aims to prepare health care students for home visits by allowing them to experience a semi-linear conversation with a virtual Non-Player Character (NPC). This provides a safe,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lee, Lena; Tu, Xintian – Computers in the Schools, 2016
As digital media devices have been increasingly used in early childhood educational settings, this study examined whether the iPad with a Vygotskian social development approach--namely, More Knowledgeable Other--can be integrated into low-income preschool classrooms to improve science learning. An analysis of variance was used to examine the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Social Development
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