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Luke, Nancy; Binkley, Russell; Marotta, Naomi; Pirkl, Melissa – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2014
This article describes a project that helped fourth-grade students connect personally with and bring North Carolina history to life. Over the months of this project, students asked questions, investigated topics of interest that they chose, conducted in-depth research that included interviewing experts, learned to use a video editor to combine…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Social Studies, History Instruction
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Sharland, Hannah – Primary Science, 2011
The author believes that to truly engage children in learning, an imaginative approach with purposeful activities is very important. One way that this can be implemented is through simple "engineering projects" where science, design and technology (D&T), mathematics and information and communication technology (ICT) are combined,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Projects, Robotics, Science Instruction
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education
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Warschauer, Mark; Grant, David; Del Real, Gabriel; Rousseau, Michele – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
One of the main challenges that US schools face in educating English language learners is developing their academic literacy. This paper presents case studies of two K-12 schools that successfully employ high-technology environments, including laptop computers for each student, toward the development of English language learners' academic language…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Second Language Learning, Refugees