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What Professionals Can Teach Us about Education: A Call for Change
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Rowsell, Jennifer – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
After 10 years of interviews with professionals who work across creative and business sectors, the author has drawn together findings in this article to encourage a collapsing of silos between schools and workplaces so that educators can build on untapped expertise from professionals who work and think multimodally. This call for change involves…
Descriptors: Professional Personnel, Educational Change, Literacy, Literacy Education
Using a Multimedia Final Project in an IT Ethics Course
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Howard, Elizabeth V.; Woods, David M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2016
In previous semesters of our IT Ethics course, students created traditional final projects where they presented some topic in IT Ethics that we did not cover during the course. Students were free to choose how they would present their information with most groups choosing a traditional presentation where some members of the group were clearly…
Descriptors: Ethics, Multimedia Materials, Information Technology, Student Projects
Traditional Craft or Technology Education: Development of Students' Technical Abilities in Finnish Comprehensive School
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Autio, Ossi – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
Changes in the economy, nature, production and society together with increasing scientific and technological knowledge make demands of transforming school teaching in the field of technology education. The aim of the article is briefly to explore the integration between science, technology and traditional craft education by analyzing the current…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Delivery Systems
Student Technological Creativity Using Online Problem-Solving Activities
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Chang, Yu-Shan – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of online (web-based) creative problem-solving (CPS) activities on student technological creativity and to examine the characteristics of student creativity in the context of online CPS. A pretest-posttest quasi-experiment was conducted with 107 fourth-grade students in Taiwan. The…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Science Activities, Creativity, Creative Activities
Interactions, Intersections and Improvisations: Studying the Multimodal Texts and Classroom Talk of Six- to Seven-Year-Olds
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Pahl, Kate – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
This article examines the relationship between children's talk in the classroom and their multimodal texts. The article uses an analytic framework derived from Bourdieu's concept of habitus to examine how 6-7-year-old children's regular ways of being and doing can be found in their multimodal texts together with their talk (Bourdieu, 1977, 1990).…
Descriptors: Discussion, Classroom Communication, Literacy, Creativity
Students' Multi-Modal Re-Presentations of Scientific Knowledge and Creativity
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Koren, Yitzhak; Klavir, Rama; Gorodetsky, Malka – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2005
The paper brings the results of a project that passed on to students the opportunity for re-presenting their acquired knowledge via the construction of multi-modal "learning resources". These "learning resources" substituted for lectures and books and became the official learning sources in the classroom. The rational for the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Scientific Concepts, Multiple Literacies, Educational Environment