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Yueh, Hsiu-Ping; Lin, Weijane; Liu, Yi-Lin; Shoji, Tetsuo; Minoh, Michihiko – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014
This paper reports on the implementation of a learner identification system developed to facilitate real-time interaction in an international distance course. To increase the teacher immediacy and social presence, it proposes an integrative system for incorporating technology to improve the learning involvement, teaching effectiveness, and quality…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Interaction, Integrated Learning Systems, Formative Evaluation
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Geist, Kamile; Geist, Eugene A.; Kuznik, Kathleen – Young Children, 2012
Research on music and music therapy suggests that math and music are related in the brain from very early in life. Musical elements such as steady beat, rhythm, melody, and tempo possess inherent mathematical principles such as spatial properties, sequencing, counting, patterning, and one-to-one correspondence. With new understanding about the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Therapy, Teaching Methods, Brain
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Whittaker, Andrew – Educational Studies, 2012
This article investigates the issue of secondary school pupils asking questions. This is an important topic on which very little has been published to date. The article reviews the current literature, which almost exclusively reports the lack of student initiated, content related questioning in classrooms. A small study is described that…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Participation, Questioning Techniques, Role
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Ayton, Katarina – Ethnography and Education, 2012
The focus of this article is children's positioning and agency in a Swedish school class. Drawing on ethnographic data generated during a year-long field study, the actions of three different children are used by the researcher to illustrate how children position themselves and are positioned by others. Using the concept of "professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Observation, Educational Research
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Pfannkuch, Maxine – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2011
Context is identified as an important factor when considering the learning of informal statistical inferential reasoning, but research in this area is very limited. This small exploratory study in one grade 10 (14 year olds) classroom seeks to learn more about the role context plays in learners' inferential reasoning, where both teacher and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Instruction, Role
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Freeman, Ramona; Swim, Terri Jo – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2009
This article examines two constructs--ritual and intellectual integrity--as they might unfold in early childhood settings. The authors use the popular practices of closed-ended crafts, calendar exercises, and worksheets to highlight the difference between learning experiences that have become formulaic habits and those that reflect rich and potent…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Integrity, Ceremonies
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Putney, LeAnn G.; Frank, Carolyn R. – Ethnography and Education, 2008
In this article we used an orienting framework of interactional ethnography to make visible classrooms acting as cultures. We examined the interactional patterns from two different classrooms as participants jointly negotiated and constructed meaning. We first demonstrated how participants began to construct a classroom culture in the first weeks…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Grade 5, Classroom Environment, School Culture
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Hopkins, Theresa M.; Cady, Jo Ann – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2007
This article reports on the use of a unique number system to facilitate teachers' understanding of the concepts of place value. Teachers' mastery of base-ten may hinder their recognition of the difficulties students have with place value, so the authors created a number system that used five symbols to represent values. Using this system, teachers…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Number Concepts, Experiential Learning, Faculty Development
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Romano, Molly E. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This study recounts a practicing teacher's attempt to describe reflections during the course of teaching at the primary level. A self-study was conducted to address teacher thinking during "bumpy moments" in teaching, offering an insight into how we might capture the details of teachers' unseen reflections. Through an analysis of the many "bumpy…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reflective Teaching, Classroom Environment, Decision Making Skills