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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
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Wong, Wing-Kwong; Yin, Sheng-Kai; Yang, Hsi-Hsun; Cheng, Ying-Hao – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
Geometry theorem proving involves skills that are difficult to learn. Instead of working with abstract and complicated representations, students might start with concrete, graphical representations. A proof tree is a graphical representation of a formal proof, with each node representing a proposition or given conditions. A computer-assisted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometry, Mathematical Logic, Validity
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Peppler, Kylie A. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: New technologies have been largely absent in arts education curriculum even though they offer opportunities to address arts integration, equity, and the technological prerequisites of an increasingly digital age. This paper draws upon the emerging professional field of "media arts" and the ways in which youth use new…
Descriptors: Studio Art, Active Learning, Educational Technology, Disadvantaged Youth
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Haake, Magnus; Gulz, Agneta – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
The paper presents a theoretical framework addressing three aspects of embodied pedagogical agents: visual static appearance, pedagogical role, and communicative style. The framework is then applied to a user study where 90 school children (aged 12-15) in a dummy multimedia program were presented with either an instructor or a learning companion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Computer Graphics
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2006
As professionals, arts education teachers must model ethical use both when working with students and when preparing materials for classroom use. This document provides arts educators with guiding principles for managing a classroom where they both model and teach appropriate, ethical behavior, in adherence to copyright policy, legislation, and the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethics, Copyrights, Art Education
Agee, Kelly, Ed. – Research and Curriculum Unit, 2009
Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…
Descriptors: Animation, Multimedia Materials, Information Technology, Graphic Arts
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Sullivan, Briana; Ware, Colin; Plumlee, Matthew – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2006
3D interactive virtual reality museum exhibits should be easy to use, entertaining, and informative. If the interface is intuitive, it will allow the user more time to learn the educational content of the exhibit. This research deals with interface issues concerning activating audio descriptions of images in such exhibits while the user is…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Museums, Exhibits, Multimedia Materials