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Turner, Kristen H. – Educational Horizons, 2012
Today's adolescents write to communicate--via text messaging, instant messaging, and social networking posts. They are skilled at manipulating their out-of-school digital language to communicate with an intended audience and to capture individual voice. Because the writing is informal, teens have the ability to break rules, and they can do so…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Adolescents, Synchronous Communication, Influence of Technology
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Peltier, James W.; Milne, George R.; Phelps, Joseph E.; Barrett, Jennifer T. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2010
An "information privacy gap" exists in marketing education, with little research addressing the state of information privacy and how appropriate privacy strategies and tactics should be communicated to students. The primary purpose of this article is to provide educators an understanding of information privacy and how they can incorporate this…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Education, Information Policy, Privacy
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Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David; Drane, Denise; Calkins, Susanna – College Teaching, 2010
Personal response systems (PRS)--also called student response systems (SRS), or more commonly, "clickers"--can be a catalyst for transformation of a learning environment from one of silence to one rich in dialogue and interaction. But how is this transformation achieved? In this paper, we present three case studies of instructors who use…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Reaction, Teaching Methods, Educational Environment
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Perkins, Katherine K.; Loeblein, Patricia J.; Dessau, Kathryn L. – Science Teacher, 2010
Since 2002, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado has been working to provide learning tools for students and teachers. The project has developed over 85 interactive simulations--or sims--for teaching and learning science. Although these sims can be used in a variety of ways, they are specifically designed to make…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Simulation, Inquiry, Higher Education
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Block, Betty A. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2008
Today's "Net Generation" is used to instant access to information that is wireless and mobile. There is so much information that students can access on their own that class time can be saved for things technology cannot teach, such as personal interactions, dance etiquette, and partnering. Technology should not be a substitute for personal and…
Descriptors: Cues, Access to Information, Internet, Teaching Methods
Oxford, Raquel, Ed.; Oxford, Jeffrey, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2009
Today's young people--the Net Generation--have grown up with technology all around them. However, teachers cannot assume that students' familiarity with technology in general transfers successfully to pedagogical settings. This volume examines various technologies and offers concrete advice on how each can be successfully implemented in the second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Educational Technology