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Heimann, Mikael; Laberg, Kari E.; Nordoen, Bodil – Infant and Child Development, 2006
Recent studies indicate that being intensely imitated for a brief period of time increases social interest among children with autism. The aim of this study was to replicate and extend these findings. Twenty children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were randomly assigned to one of two interaction strategies: imitation (n = 10) or contingent…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Autism, Imitation, Interaction
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Hughes, Claire; Fujisawa, Keiko K.; Ensor, Rosie; Lecce, Serena; Marfleet, Rachel – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
Sibling relationships appear important in fostering young children's growing theory-of-mind skills, but the quality of sibling interactions has rarely been investigated directly in relation to children's mental-state awareness (e.g. as indexed by talk about perceptions, desires, feelings, cognitions, i.e. inner state talk; IST). This study…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Video Technology, Siblings, Play
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Schuck, Sandy; Kearney, Matthew – Australian Educational Computing, 2006
Digital video is an exciting emerging technology that can be used in schools to support, extend, or change pedagogy and curriculum outcomes. In particular, student-generated digital video has potential to enhance or change pedagogy. In this paper, we review relevant literature in this area and outline results from a recently completed research…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Vasudevan, Lalitha – E-Learning, 2006
In the increasingly digital and multimodal landscape of adolescents' literacies, it is particularly interesting to explore how young people are making and remaking their identities in online and offline spaces. These self-authoring practices are especially significant when the authors are African American adolescent boys, whose lives are often…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Literacy, Identification (Psychology), African Americans
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Gouglas, Sean; Sinclair, Stefan; Ellefson, Olaf; Sharplin, Scott – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
Most humanities courses rarely require students to create the kinds of work they are studying. Sean Gouglas, Stefan Sinclair, Olaf Ellefson, and Scott Sharplin outline the value of this rare experience by describing an assignment in their graduate humanities computing course in which students examined hypermedia narratives by authoring a…
Descriptors: Games, Fantasy, Foreign Countries, Role Playing
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Matthews, John – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006
In this study, I gave a group of six to eight very young Chinese Singaporean children (between 2 and 4 years of age) three identical digital video cameras, plus tripods, and tracked their development in moviemaking over a 2-year period. The children were allowed to explore the cameras freely, though the investigators offered advice and support as…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Child Development, Young Children, Foreign Countries
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Matthew, Victoria; Schroeder, Ann – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2006
With the huge increase in online learning at colleges around the country, libraries need to consider how to serve the growing contingent of online students. Some typical library services include a Web site, remote access to databases, e-mail assistance, a toll-free phone number, a procedure for supplying library materials to students, FAQs,…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Community Colleges, Library Instruction, Library Services
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Cochrane, Thomas; Bateman, Roger – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Built on the foundation of four years of research and implementation of mobile learning projects (m-learning), this paper provides an overview of the potential of the integration of mobile Web 2.0 tools (based around smartphones) to facilitate social constructivist pedagogies and engage students in tertiary education. Pedagogical affordances of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Constructivism (Learning), Communities of Practice, Action Research
Pease, Terrie; Copa, Annette; Proulx, Gregory A.; Boss, Jennifer – Zero to Three (J), 2004
Jennifer Boss, Senior Program Associate at ZERO TO THREE, spoke with three infant mental health consultants who worked with three different Early Head Start programs as part of the Pathways to Prevention (PTP) initiative. The interviews particularly focused on how to infuse technology into consultation arrangements that center around building and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Consultants, Disadvantaged Youth, Mental Health
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Grace, Donna J. – Educational Perspectives, 2005
Literacy has traditionally been associated with the printed word. But today, print literacy is not enough. Children and youth need to learn to "read" and interpret visual images as well. Film, television, videos, DVDs, computer games, and the Internet all hold a prominent and pervasive place in one's culture. Its presence in people's lives is only…
Descriptors: Critical Viewing, Media Literacy, Student Developed Materials, Video Technology
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Ohta, Ralph – Educational Perspectives, 2005
Parody is a form of imitation with the added elements of comedic twists, turns, and exaggerations. To create a parody of something, one has to understand it before beginning to alter it for humorous effect. Parodies are used by teachers of writing, music, and art as a method of educating and evaluating students' understanding of the styles of the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Journalism Education, Video Technology, Parody
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Ruusuvuori, Johanna – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
This paper analyzes "empathy" and "sympathy" as situated practices, sequential processes that are coconstructed by the participants in the situation. The data consists of 228 sequences of patients' descriptions of their problematic experiences and professionals' responses to them in videorecorded general practice and…
Descriptors: Altruism, Patients, Empathy, Video Technology
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Hodges, Gabrielle Cliff – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
This article explores the potential of using camcorders when studying poetry in secondary school English teaching. Drawing on the work of trainee teachers on a Secondary English and Drama Postgraduate Certificate in Education course in the UK, it argues that the process of representing poetry as moving image enables learners to deepen their…
Descriptors: Film Production, Video Technology, Poetry, English Instruction
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Carter, Julie – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2005
Although major strides toward the inclusion of GLBT images in North American libraries have indeed been achieved, censorship is alive and well where children's literature is concerned. It is plain to see that libraries have become a major battleground for the free flow of information about and for GLBTQ children and families. This article…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Adolescents, School Libraries, Library Services
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Merrick, Scott – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2005
Interactive videoconferencing (IVC) is gaining support among a growing number of teachers, administrators, and technologists. Scott Merrick examines the benefits and potential uses of IVC in the K-12 classroom. IVC provides educators with access to a rich array of supplemental resources, enables students to interact with experts to whom they would…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Internet, Video Technology, Interactive Video
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