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Prokes, Christopher; Housel, Jacqueline – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
COVID-19 challenged higher education to rapidly shift to remote course delivery. This study surveyed community college students (N = 356) about their confidence in completing learning related tasks before and after the shift, access to technologies used in in remote learning, and disruptions that impacted their learning. Results indicated notable…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Distance Education, Online Courses
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Polly, Drew; Rock, Tracy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
In this paper the authors evaluate 85 elementary education teacher candidates' integration of technology into interdisciplinary units that the candidates wrote during the semester before their full-time student teaching internship. An inductive analysis of the units revealed that teachers used a wide variety of technologies with a large dependence…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Preservice Teachers, Technology Integration
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Thomas, Kevin M.; McGee, Christy D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
Cell phones have been banned in 69% of today's classrooms (CommonSense, 2010). Reasons for the banning of cell phones may seem obvious--kids will misuse them to cheat, use textese in place of Standard English, cyberbully, and sexting (Brady & Conn, 2006; Johnson, 2004; Obringer & Coffey, 2007). These fears have disregarded the fact that today's…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Internet, Handheld Devices, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Elementary School Teachers
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Yusup, Yusri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This paper examines the status of iPad (1st generation) use as a learning device among primary school teachers enrolled in an undergraduate bachelor of education program at a private university in Malaysia. A survey was conducted on 93 teachers who were given iPads to assist them in this online distance-learning program in the March 2011 semester.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Elementary School Teachers, Bachelors Degrees
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Walker, Carol M.; Sockman, Beth Rajan; Koehn, Steven – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
Understanding the covert events surrounding the undergraduate students' experience is essential to educators' and counselors' involvement in their success. Research into bullying behaviors has documented victims' feelings of anger, sadness and poor concentration. Affordable technologies have propagated this concern into cyberspace. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Student Behavior
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Zelkowski, Jeremy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2011
This article justifies classifying the TI-Nspire CAS Touchpad as a mobile device for grades 8-16 mathematics classrooms equipped with a Navigator system. The 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 indicates virtually every secondary school aged child has some sort of mobile device. Yet, many school policies ban the use of mobile devices, preventing students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Time on Task, Classroom Techniques