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Krauss, Jane – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2012
Good learning experiences ask students to investigate and make sense of the world. While there are many ways to do this, K-12 curriculum has traditionally skewed toward reading and writing to interpret and express students' sense-making. But there is another way. Infographics represent data and ideas visually, in pictures, engaging more parts of…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Middle School Students
Perkins, Ross A.; Arreguin, Cathy – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2007
The communication and collaborative interface known as a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE), has existed since as early as the late 1970s. MUVEs refer to programs that have an animated character ("avatar") controlled by a user within a wider environment that can be explored--or built--at will. Second Life, a MUVE created by San Francisco-based…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Distance Education, Immigrants, Migrants