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Bryan, Joel – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2006
Although technological innovations have the capability to significantly change how scientific investigations are done and greatly enhance the teaching and learning of science, its use is no more effective than any other resource or innovation when researched-based effective teaching practices are not followed. This paper reviews established…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Technology
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Wilson, Dorothy; Evans, Stephen – Kairaranga, 2006
Ferndale School is a special school catering for students in the Ongoing and Reviewable Resourcing Schemes (ORRS). We sought to explore how a sense of well-being and belonging for students could be fostered during the lunch break at the base school. Students' need for close supervision during lunch hour meant that staff found it hard to…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Special Schools, Teacher Burnout, Student Participation
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von Aufschnaiter, Claudia – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
Research on conceptual change is still a powerful framework for empirical investigations on students' learning of science. During recent years, an increasing body of research has explored students' concepts prior and subsequent to instruction, leading to an extensive documentation of students' concepts including the difficulties and opportunities…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Investigations, Physics, Concept Formation
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Robutti, Ornella – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2006
This report is part of a long-term research on the construction of mathematical meanings through the interaction with various technologies. The research involved a set of teaching experiments based on body motion with sensors and calculators at different school levels, from kindergarten to secondary school. Here I refer to the one developed in a…
Descriptors: Motion, Grade 8, Mathematical Concepts, Information Technology
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Stewart, Barbara L.; Ezell, Shirley; DeMartino, Darrell; Rifai, Rana; Gatterson, Beverly – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
This case explored the use of a collaborative team to develop a virtual course component to increase educational experience. As students continue to engage in recreational video game activities, incorporation of such applications into their learning environments becomes important to allow them to connect and interact with course content in a…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Experience, Pilot Projects, Video Technology
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Taylor, Pamela G. – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
As part of a two-year study, Pamela G. Taylor's high school art students constructed hypertext webs that linked the subject matter they studied in class to their own independent research and personal experiences, which in turn encouraged them to think critically about the material. Taylor bases this use of hypertext on the thinking of Paulo Freire…
Descriptors: Art Education, Hypermedia, Critical Thinking, Video Technology
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Radosevich, David J.; Kahn, Patricia – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
A key benefit of information technology in educational settings is its ability to support engaged, interactive learning experiences consistent with constructivist principles. At the same time, educators are continually searching for low threshold technologies that integrate well in traditional learning environments, that do not require a high…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Information Technology, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
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Bookman, Jack; Malone, David – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2006
The authors examined how undergraduate students negotiated roles and developed a shared understanding of mathematics while working together on computer-based modules. The subjects were videotaped while working on these modules and their computer output was simultaneously collected on a separate videotape. Examination of the data tentatively…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Algebra
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Herron, Carol; York, Holly; Corrie, Cathleen; Cole, Steven P. – CALICO Journal, 2006
This study compared a story-based video instructional package, with a feature-length film as its focus, to a text-based program. It explored the effectiveness of each approach to enhance the listening and grammar performances of intermediate-level college French students. Twenty-seven students at two institutions participated. A pretest-posttest…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Films, Listening Skills, French
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Ito, Mizuko – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
The late 1980s saw the emergence of a new genre of instructional media, "edutainment", which utilized the capabilities of multimedia personal computers to animate software designed to both educate and entertain young children. This paper describes the production of, marketing of and play with edutainment software as a contemporary example of…
Descriptors: Play, After School Programs, Marketing, Educational Media
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Gruba, Paul – Language Learning & Technology, 2006
Adopting a literacy perspective towards student interactions with digital media can extend and develop views of second language (L2) listening comprehension. In this case study, variations in "play" are grounded in a media literacy perspective as a way to frame student work with authentic videotext. Twenty-two Australian students of…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
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Yürük, Nejla – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2007
The aim of this paper was to describe the changes in one student's ideas about force and one-dimensional motion concepts and portray the relevant metaconceptual processes that she engaged in during the implementation of metaconceptual teaching interventions. Metaconceptual processes involves metacognitive processes that are directly acting on or…
Descriptors: Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Metacognition, Cognitive Processes
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Nippard, Eric; Murphy, Elizabeth – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2007
The purpose of the study reported on in this paper was to explore how teachers and students manifest social presence in the web-based synchronous secondary classroom (WBSSC). Data were collected using structured and unstructured observations of twelve online recordings of web-based synchronous classes in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries, Observation
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Myers, Jamie; Beach, Richard – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2004
This article describes how students have made use of technology tools in several critical literacy activities that help to achieve the paramount goals of language and literacy education to enable students to develop critical consciousness and community agency through literacy. The technologies helped students define intertextual connections, pose…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Software, Hypermedia
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Hart, Sybil L.; Carrington, Heather A.; Tronick, E. Z.; Carroll, Sebrina R. – Infancy, 2004
To characterize infant reactions to jealousy evocation, 94 6-month-olds and their mothers were videotaped in an episode where the mothers directed positive attention toward a lifelike doll, and in 2 contrasting interactions: face-to-face play and a still-face perturbation. Cross-context comparisons of affects and behaviors revealed that jealousy…
Descriptors: Interests, Play, Mothers, Infants
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