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Evaluating the Impact of the Curriculum Structure on Group Metacognition during Collaborative Problem-Solving Using Educational Robotics
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Socratous, Chrysanthos; Ioannou, Andri – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Educational robotics (ER) has emerged as a novel educational tool that enables students to improve their thinking skills. The study aims to compare the effect of a structured versus an unstructured ER curriculum on students' group metacognition during collaborative problem-solving with ER. The authors' hypothesis is that an unstructured ER…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Metacognition, Problem Solving, Robotics
Facilitating Authentic Learning Experiences in Distance Education: Embedding Research-Based Practices into an Online Peer Feedback Tool
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Roman, Tiffany A.; Callison, Matthew; Myers, Rodney D.; Berry, Anne H. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Authentic learning in online education is feasible with intentional instructional strategies and appropriate educational technologies, yet as a learning approach, barriers to implementation still exist. We argue that authentic learning in online education can be successfully supported when the characteristics of authentic learning are (a)…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Distance Education, Evidence Based Practice, Peer Evaluation
Design Thinking Approach to Global Collaboration and Empowered Learning: Virtual Exchange as Innovation in a Teacher Education Course
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Gleason, Benjamin; Jaramillo Cherrez, Nadia – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
This study discusses a design-thinking approach for a virtual exchange intended to introduce pre-service teachers to global collaboration and empowered learning through the use of educational technology. Principles of design-thinking (i.e., empathy, ideation, and testing) were aligned with broader educational goals of culturally responsive…
Descriptors: Design, Exchange Programs, Computer Simulation, Preservice Teachers
A Breakthrough for Josh: How Use of an iPad Facilitated Reading Improvement
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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