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Victoria Damjanovic; Laura Harrison – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2023
The authors introduce the readers to a project that highlights digital heritage in early childhood. The highlighted teachers partnered with an anthropologically-trained archaeologist who utilizes advanced digital technologies to enhance public understanding of cultural heritage. This collaboration emphasized social studies and reinforced…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Context Effect, Learner Engagement, Spatial Ability
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Hock, Howard S.; Nichols, David F. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
A version of the line motion illusion (LMI) occurs when one of two adjacent surfaces changes in luminance; a new surface is perceived sliding in front of the initially presented surface. Previous research has implicated high-level mechanisms that can create or modulate LMI motion via feedback to lower-level motion detectors. It is shown here that…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Perception, Visual Stimuli
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Bauries, Scott R. – Journal of Education Finance, 2006
The state of Florida has since the time of "San Antonio v. Rodriguez" an education finance system called the Florida Education Finance Plan (FEFP), which makes substantial effort to equalize per-pupil spending in all of the state's school districts, while recognizing the local factors that may necessitate changes in that spending. Still,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Finance Reform, Educational Finance, Role Perception
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2007
Recent research has demonstrated that students with normal hearing ability benefit from the use of classroom amplification systems. Amplification systems allow teachers to control, stabilize, and equalize the classroom acoustical environment so their voices are clearly audible over background noise at all locations within the classroom. Studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Teacher Attendance, Acoustics, Classroom Environment
Riner, Phil – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Research tells us we can learn complex tasks most easily if they are taught in "small sequential steps." This column is about the small sequential steps that unlocked the powers of digital photography, of portraiture, and of student creativity. The strategies and ideas described in this article came as a result of working with…
Descriptors: Art Education, Photography, Grade 5, Urban Schools
Aaron, Shirley – 1975
An investigation was made to determine the instructional function of the professional media staff in a school. The objectives of the study were: (1) to develop a model to add the expertise of the media specialist to the teaching team; (2) to access the effect the model had on the academic achievement and self-concept of students; and (3) to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 8, Individualized Instruction, Learning Processes