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Underwood, Jean D. M.; Stiller, James – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
There have been significant advance in educational technology but they have not always brought about measurable shifts in user behavior. This study examined the relationship between teachers' knowledge about a tool and their use of that tool. In many secondary schools use of a Learning Platforms (LPs) is no longer optional although the degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Change, Barriers
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Santos-Trigo, Manuel; Barrera-Mora, Fernando – PRIMUS, 2011
The study documents the extent to which high school teachers reflect on their need to revise and extend their mathematical and practicing knowledge. In this context, teachers worked on a set of tasks as a part of an inquiring community that promoted the use of different computational tools in problem solving approaches. Results indicated that the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Problem Solving, Calculators, Secondary School Teachers
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Meerbaum-Salant, Orni; Hazzan, Orit – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2010
This article describes the construction process and evaluation of the Agile Constructionist Mentoring Methodology (ACMM), a mentoring method for guiding software development projects in the high school. The need for such a methodology has arisen due to the complexity of mentoring software project development in the high school. We introduce the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Computer Software, Methods, Program Development
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Meerbaum-Salant, Orni; Hazzan, Orit – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2009
This paper focuses on challenges in mentoring software development projects in the high school and analyzes difficulties encountered by Computer Science teachers in the mentoring process according to Shulman's Teacher Knowledge Base Model. The main difficulties that emerged from the data analysis belong to the following knowledge sources of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Computer Software, Computer Science