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Vaux, Dana E.; Moore, Tami J.; Nordhues, Jeffrey D. – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This paper presents a model for mastery learning. The framework for this model overlays the cognitive and knowledge dimensions from Krathwohl's revision of Bloom's Taxonomy, the Revised Taxonomy, with Polanyi's theory of personal knowledge. A simplified framework integrates Polanyi's concepts of subsidiary and focal awareness with the Revised…
Descriptors: Risk, Creativity, Thinking Skills, Technology Integration
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Xue, Sijia – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Due to a range of different affordances, mobile technologies can be used pedagogically for language teaching and learning. However, the connection of technology to education needs to be grounded in theoretical frameworks and methodological principles. Task-based language teaching (TBLT), as an optimal approach to language teaching and learning,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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McQuirter Scott, Ruth; Meeussen, Nancy – Reading Teacher, 2017
Technology-enhanced classrooms offer dynamic possibilities for teachers and students. The teacher's role can shift from being an expert in control of the class to being a coach who challenges students to use technology to explore the world and share their findings in innovative ways. Such redefining of roles, however, involves risk and often…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Teacher Role, Risk
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Jean-Sigur, Raynice; Bell, Douglas; Kim, Yanghee – Childhood Education, 2016
Many early learning settings are more culturally diverse than ever before. Due to widespread migration, early learning classrooms now include students from a rich variety of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. One classroom may contain students from a dozen countries and even more cultural experiences. To produce conscientious and creative global…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education Programs, Global Approach, Global Education
Parenti, Melissa A. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
The benefits of motivation, mental imagery, self-monitoring and guided retellings on reading comprehension have long been lauded as effective methods for improving reading achievement. At a time when technology continues to flourish, yet secondary reading performance remains at a level far below proficiency, identifying strategies that assist in…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Middle School Students, Story Telling
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Hung, Woei – Australian Journal of Education, 2014
Intentional learning occurs in formal and informal settings throughout an individual's life time. Intentional learning can be deemed as an ideal learning process where all the necessary elements for achieving a goal of effective learning are in place and in order. Intentional learners take an active role in and responsibility for their own…
Descriptors: Intentional Learning, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Student Role
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Madden, Lauren – Educational Forum, 2012
A science methods instructor intentionally encouraged cell phone use for class work to discover how cell phones can be used as research tools to enhance the content and engage the students. The anecdotal evidence suggested that students who used their smartphones as research tools experienced the science content and pedagogical information…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Metacognition, Research Tools
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Wang, Feng; Kinzie, Mable B.; McGuire, Patrick; Pan, Edward – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2010
Children naturally explore and learn about their environments through inquiry, and computer technologies offer an accessible vehicle for extending the domain and range of this inquiry. Over the past decade, a growing number of interactive games and educational software packages have been implemented in early childhood education and addressed a…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Inquiry, Young Children, Computer Software
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Phelps, Renata; Graham, Anne – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2010
This paper takes up an ongoing dialogue in the educational literature regarding the relationship between complexity theories and action research. Recognising the contributions of other writers in this field and building on arguments made previously by the authors, this paper argues that there "are" multiple synergies between complexity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Action Research
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Terras, Melody M.; Ramsay, Judith – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
Web 2.0 technology not only offers the opportunity of massively parallel interconnected networks that support the provision of information and communication anytime and anywhere but also offers immense opportunities for collaboration and sharing of user-generated content. This information-rich environment may support both formal and informal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Electronic Learning, Informal Education
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Wang, Feng; Hannafin, Michael J. – Educational Media International, 2008
During the past decade, WebQuests have been widely used by teachers to integrate technology into teaching and learning. Recently, teacher educators have applied the WebQuest model with preservice teachers in order to develop technology integration skills akin to those used in everyday schools. Scaffolding, used to support the gradual acquisition…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Schuttloffel, Merylann J. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2005
This article explores Jacques Ellul's challenges to Christian educators in a society permeated with technique or technological thinking. Responses to the three challenges Ellul puts forth to believing Christians, and, specifically, to Catholic Christian school educators, integrate a process of contemplative practice. This process integrates…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Catholics, Catholic Schools, Christianity
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Kovalchick, Ann – TechTrends, 1997
Describes a reflexive approach to technology training for preservice teachers blending elements from competency-based and integrative models so that students use technology as learner and teacher. Discusses technology portfolios as an instructional strategy, metacognitive strategies for self-understanding, and modeling and peer tutoring. (PEN)
Descriptors: Competence, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Metacognition