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Huang, Yao; Klein, James D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Mobile performance support systems (MPSS) involve the use of handheld and wearable devices to assist workers to complete job tasks that are not tied to a fixed location. This paper acknowledges MPSS as an emerging human performance technology (HPT) intervention and distinguishes the differences between mobile learning and MPSS. MPSS focuses on…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Electronic Equipment, Information Technology
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Union, Craig D.; Union, Lori Walker; Green, Tim D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This study explored the effects of a portable technology intervention, the Nook Simple Touch eReader, on student performance in Reading and English/Language Arts when included as an integral part of the teaching and learning process in an elementary third-grade classroom. This study used the participating students' end-of-year second-grade scores…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Grade 3, Technology Uses in Education
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McClanahan, Barbara; Williams, Kristen; Kennedy, Ed; Tate, Susan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
As part of a diagnosis and tutoring project in an elementary education reading course, a pre-service teacher was encouraged to use an iPad as the vehicle for intervention strategies with a fifth grade struggling reader with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The device not only helped the student focus attention, it facilitated his becoming…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intervention, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement