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Direct linkBai, Hua – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
The wide adoption of mobile technology has greatly influenced K-12 education. In teacher education programs, it is necessary for educators to train teacher education students to use mobile technology for educational purpose. This paper reports an exploratory effort in preparing elementary education students for mobile learning. The participants'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Moon, Andria L.; Wold, Cheryl M.; Francom, Gregory M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Reading comprehension, or understanding the author's message, is a critical component of teaching literacy (Hougen and Smartt 2012). Student-centered activities using the iPad with the goal of improving reading comprehension in a fifth-grade classroom were implemented for this action research study. University teacher candidates guided fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Student Centered Learning, Handheld Devices, Reading Improvement
Parton, Becky Sue – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Glass Vision 3D was a grant-funded project focused on developing and researching a Google Glass app that would allowed young Deaf children to look at the QR code of an object in the classroom and see an augmented reality projection that displays an American Sign Language (ASL) related video. Twenty five objects and videos were prepared and tested…
Descriptors: Deafness, Computer Oriented Programs, American Sign Language, Focus Groups
Polly, Drew; Rock, Tracy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
In this paper the authors evaluate 85 elementary education teacher candidates' integration of technology into interdisciplinary units that the candidates wrote during the semester before their full-time student teaching internship. An inductive analysis of the units revealed that teachers used a wide variety of technologies with a large dependence…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration
Hill, Doris Adams; Flores, Margaret M. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Both picture exchange, a low-tech picturebased communication system, and technologybased interventions, such as the iPad™ with communication application, are emerging treatments for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to the National Autism Center (2009). Recently, investigations regarding the use of the Apple iPad™ to…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Assistive Technology, Handheld Devices
Sessions, Laird; Kang, Mi Ok; Womack, Sue – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
In this study the authors investigated the effects of integrating iPad applications into writing instruction for fifth grade students. By comparing the writing of students taught with paper and pencil methods with that of students utilizing the iPad writing applications, two research questions guided the study: (1) Are there differences in student…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Elementary School Students
Zhang, Meilan; Trussell, Robert P.; Gallegos, Benjamin; Asam, Rasmiyeh R. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Recent years have seen a quick expansion of tablet computers in households and schools. One of the educational affordances of tablet computers is using math apps to engage students in mathematics learning. However, given the short history of the mobile devices, little research exists on the effectiveness of math apps, particularly for struggling…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mathematical Applications, Laptop Computers, Grade 4
Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Elementary School Teachers
Union, Craig D.; Union, Lori Walker; Green, Tim D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study explored the effects of a portable technology intervention, the Nook Simple Touch eReader, on student performance in Reading and English/Language Arts when included as an integral part of the teaching and learning process in an elementary third-grade classroom. This study used the participating students' end-of-year second-grade scores…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Grade 3, Technology Uses in Education
Delacruz, Stacy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
A student teacher placed at a school with a high English Language Learner population used mini iPads, and an application called Nearpod, during guided reading instruction. Groups of students in a fourth grade classroom used this application. The students and the teacher were interviewed to determine the benefits and challenges of this approach. An…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Student Teachers, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Elementary School Teachers, Bachelors Degrees
McClanahan, Barbara; Williams, Kristen; Kennedy, Ed; Tate, Susan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
As part of a diagnosis and tutoring project in an elementary education reading course, a pre-service teacher was encouraged to use an iPad as the vehicle for intervention strategies with a fifth grade struggling reader with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The device not only helped the student focus attention, it facilitated his becoming…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intervention, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement
