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Investigating Teachers' Exploration of a Professional Development Website: An Innovative Approach to Understanding the Factors that Motivate Teachers to Use Internet-Based Resources
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Beach, Pamela; Willows, Dale – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2014
This qualitative study examined an innovative methodology, combining screen capture technology and a retrospective think aloud, for exploring the use of Internet-based resources by elementary teachers. Pre-service and in-service teachers explored "The Balanced Literacy Diet," a free, interactive, and evidenced-informed professional…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Web Sites, Elementary School Teachers, Electronic Learning
Beyond Jeopardy and Lectures: Using "Microsoft PowerPoint" as a Game Design Tool to Teach Science
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Siko, Jason; Barbour, Michael; Toker, Sacip – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2011
To date, research involving homemade PowerPoint games as an instructional tool has not shown statistically significant gains in student performance. This paper examines the results of a study comparing the performance of students in a high school chemistry course who created homemade PowerPoint games as a test review with the students who used a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Materials, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Problem-Solving Software: What It Really Teaches.
Eiser, Leslie – Classroom Computer Learning, 1986
Examines problem-solving in selected software, considering what packages really teach and how useful they are in classrooms. Includes a table listing 21 packages with information in such categories as: suggested ages; solving standard logic puzzles; trial/error or predicting outcomes; breaking tasks into smaller parts; drawing conclusions; and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
New Paradigms for Computer Aids to Invention.
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Langston, M. Diane – 1986
Many people are interested in computer aids to rhetorical invention and want to know how to evaluate an invention aid, what the criteria are for a good one, and how to assess the trade-offs involved in buying one product or another. The frame of reference for this evaluation is an "old paradigm," which treats the computer as if it were…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Authoring Aids (Programing), Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Productivity Tools for the Classroom.
Schiffman, Shirl S. – Computing Teacher, 1986
Presents rationale for including use of productivity tool software--database management systems, spreadsheets, graphics software, word processing--in classrooms and reviews appropriate strategies for introducing students to these tools. Discussion covers adaptability of these tools to various academic disciplines and illustrates how students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Graphics, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) (Fort Worth, Texas, October 22-24, 2013)
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory