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Kremer, Joseph; Cutler, Kristin – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
This article explicates the ways that the popular television series "Sons of Anarchy" in conjunction with our content analysis coding tool can be used to teach theories and concepts central to Sociology of Deviance courses. We detail how students learned to understand deviance as a social constructed phenomenon by coding and analyzing…
Descriptors: Sociology, Television, Popular Culture, Content Analysis
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Tan, Ping; Wu, Han; Li, Peng; Xu, He – Education Sciences, 2018
Currently, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are used in many areas, such as intelligent transportation, smart city, hospital, games, education. Earlier interactive response system uses infrared or radio frequency (RF) wireless communication technologies to transmit the students' answer to teachers' management system, where there exists high…
Descriptors: Radio, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Internet
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Cummins, Sunday – Educational Leadership, 2013
Frequently, when assigned to read, intermediate and middle grade students engage in a mindless encounter with the text. Or, try as they may to focus and gather information, they're mostly confused and not sure how to repair the breakdown in their meaning-making. With the new focus on close reading--and on engaging students with more rigorous…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Independent Study
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Hance, Trevor – Science and Children, 2014
Designing opportunities for students to discover core science concepts can be challenging, however, with a good understanding of their interests, proper planning, and the use of technology and the outdoors, students can become engaged in a way that can leave a legacy for future students. Last fall, this author designed a nine-session unit for a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Grade 4
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Gurski, Katharine F. – PRIMUS, 2009
We describe two short group projects for finite mathematics students that incorporate matrices and linear programming into fictional consulting requests presented as a letter to the students. The students are required to use mathematics to decrypt secret messages in one project involving matrix multiplication and inversion. The second project…
Descriptors: Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Instruction, Learner Engagement, Student Projects
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Murphy, Elizabeth; Rodriguez Manzanares, Maria A. – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
This paper provides an illustrative example of an approach to creating and reporting individual profiles of engagement in particular behaviours in an online asynchronous discussion (OAD). Individual results of analysis of transcripts of an OAD can provide insights different from those gained by focusing on aggregate measures of group behaviours.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Graduate Students, Student Behavior