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Hunsaker, Enoch; West, Richard E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This design case documents the creation of open educational resources for preservice and inservice teachers at Brigham Young University (BYU). The purpose of this interdisciplinary project was to design and develop training, assessments and credentials to help the learners become competent in teaching computational thinking (CT) and coding in…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Coding, Computation, Thinking Skills
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An, Heejung; Sung, Woonhee; Yoon, So Yoon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
This article presents a collaborative maker project integrating the arts in a synchronous online environment. Based on the Thinkering, Making, Sharing, and Reflecting (TMSR) model, the four components of hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on, and social-on learning were integrated into an online collaborative maker project involving arts, music, and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Art Activities, Coding
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Zha, Shenghua; Jin, Yi; Moore, Pamela; Gaston, Joe – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Researchers and educators have advocated computational thinking (CT) should be integrated into K-12 settings as early as elementary schools. However, there has been a lack of knowledge of how pre-service K-8 teachers would be engaged in the learning of CT and its integration in different subject areas. In this study, we taught a flipped learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills
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Moorefield-Lang, Heather – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Makerspaces and accompanying technologies are exciting new services being offered in libraries. However, these come with their own challenges and successes. Training for maker learning locations continues to be difficult to obtain. Inservice librarians rely on peers in the field and online resources for their training. Most preservice librarians…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Librarians, Libraries, Library Education
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Lim, Cheolil; Ryu, Jeeheon; Martindale, Trey; Kim, Nari; Park, Sanghoon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
This report synthesized a one-hour panel discussion at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention 2018 in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsored by the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET). The theme of the panel discussion was "New Technology, Design, and Research Approaches for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Conferences (Gatherings), Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
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Cohen, Jonathan D.; Renken, Maggie; Calandra, Brendan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
As part of the design and development of an informal learning environment meant to increase urban middle school students' interest in technology-focused STEM careers, and to support their twenty-first century skill development, researchers developed and administered the ICT/Twenty-First Century Skills Questionnaire. Both STEM-ICT professionals and…
Descriptors: Urban Youth, Middle School Students, Training Methods, Questionnaires
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Cheon, Jongpil; Grant, Michael – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
The website "Active Listening" was developed within a larger project--"Interactive Web-based training in the subtleties of communication and active listening skill development." The Active Listening site aims to provide beginning counseling psychology students with didactic and experimental learning activities and interactive tests so that…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Listening, Formative Evaluation, Counseling Psychology