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Jennifer Nakamura; Maddie Cincebeaux; Todd Grindal – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2023
Digital learning programs are a promising tool to support teachers in providing students with strong early literacy instruction, but more research is needed to understand their effectiveness. Sound Town is a digital early literacy program that provides children in prekindergarten with instruction and practice in foundational literacy skills, using…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Emergent Literacy, Electronic Learning
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Ana Lidia Franzoni Velázquez; Esperanza Huerta; Scott Jensen – Discover Education, 2024
This two-part study describes a learning exercise including a video and a worksheet designed to raise students' awareness of the need to evaluate the completeness of references generated by ChatGPT. The first part of the study assesses the completeness and relevance of academic references generated by ChatGPT using four prompts and three versions…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Students, Instructional Material Evaluation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Andrew J. Wojcik; Alison King; Delanie Amend; Donna Gilles; Audrey Martin; Kristina Keithley; Chloe Weaver – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
The general education classroom is filled with academic vocabulary, and individuals with developmental disabilities benefit from explicit vocabulary instruction (Browder et al., 2008; Marzano, 2020; Smith et al., 2013). Picture-based alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) can encourage academic skills development (Ahlgrim-Dehzel et al.,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Students with Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
Cameron Sharbel McKinley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Secondary teachers use digital resources for teaching, yet little is known about how they find, evaluate, organize, and share these resources. This basic qualitative study was conducted to fill the gap and examine the experiences and practices of secondary educators in curating digital resources. Findings on how teachers manage digital…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Professional Development, Digital Literacy, Blended Learning
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Aguilera, Earl; Kachorsky, Dani; Gee, Elisabeth; Serafini, Frank – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2016
Research on the nature and impact of book apps or e-reading in general is still limited and informed by diverse assumptions about the nature of these new "texts," the varied forms of engagement and meaning-making associated with them, and their implications for understanding literacy and learning in the digital age. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Courseware, Usability
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Ok, Min Wook; Kim, Min Kyung; Kang, Eun Young; Bryant, Brian R. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2016
Computers can be an effective teaching method for students with learning disabilities (LD). The use of mobile devices as education tools for students with disabilities has received considerable attention in special education recently. Parents, teachers, and professionals look for effective applications (i.e., apps) that meet the needs of their…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Scoring Rubrics, Accessibility (for Disabled)
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Borowczak, Mike; Burrows, Andrea C. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2016
This article details a new, free resource for continuous video assessment named YouDemo. The tool enables real time rating of uploaded YouTube videos for use in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and beyond. The authors discuss trends of preservice science teachers' assessments of self- and peer-created videos using…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends
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Kobayashi, Michiko – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
The study investigated perceived ease of use and usefulness of Google Hangouts as an instructional/learning tool. Forty-two teacher education students at U.S and Japanese universities participated in an online cross-cultural activity using Google Hangouts and discussed cultural differences between the two countries and their teaching philosophies.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Group Discussion, Usability, Instructional Material Evaluation
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Herrero, Rocío; Bretón-López, Juana; Farfallini, Luis; Quero, Soledad; Miralles, Ignacio; Baños, Rosa; Botella, Cristina – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
E-learning can be defined as learning facilitated and supported through the use of ICTs. ICTs can increase students' motivation, accelerate the knowledge process and facilitate the information access. The aim of this paper is to analyze the acceptability of three tools presented in a workshop carried out during six weeks, with university teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Workshops, Educational Technology, Questionnaires, Pretests Posttests
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Kangas, Brian D. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2012
"The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within" by Edward Tufte (2006) condemns the software for failing to help users achieve many of the goals of an effective presentation and instead offers a low resolution platform with a deeply hierarchical single-path structure capable of convening a trivial amount of information even over…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Cognitive Style, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation
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Alario-Hoyos, Carlos; Bote-Lorenzo, Miguel L.; Gomez-Sanchez, Eduardo; Asensio-Perez, Juan I.; Vega-Gorgojo, Guillermo; Ruiz-Calleja, Adolfo – Computers & Education, 2013
The integration of external tools in Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) aims at enriching the learning activities that educational practitioners may design and enact. This paper presents GLUE!, an architecture that enables the lightweight integration of multiple existing external tools in multiple existing VLEs. GLUE! fosters this integration by…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Nesbitt, Dallas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2013
This article discusses the comparative effectiveness of student input at different times during the design of CALL tools for learning kanji, the Japanese characters of Chinese origin. The CALL software "package" consisted of tools to facilitate the writing, reading and practising of kanji characters in context. A pre-design questionnaire…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Berns, Anke; Valero-Franco, Concepción – Research-publishing.net, 2013
This paper presents the results of an ongoing study which has been carried out with a group of German Foreign Language students at the University of Cadiz since 2012. The purpose of the study was to analyze the impact of videogame-like applications on foreign language learning and their motivational potential to increase learning beyond the…
Descriptors: Video Games, Active Learning, Educational Games, Courseware
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Lee, Cheng-Yuan; Cherner, Todd Sloan – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
There is a pressing need for an evaluation rubric that examines all aspects of educational apps designed for instructional purposes. In past decades, many rubrics have been developed for evaluating educational computer-based programs; however, rubrics designed for evaluating the instructional implications of educational apps are scarce. When an…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Educational Technology, Scoring Rubrics, Evaluation Methods
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Mukundan, Jayakaran; Nimehchisalem, Vahid – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study included a qualitative analysis of the content of the teaching courseware that was developed by the Curriculum Development Center of the Ministry of Education in 2003. The objective of the study was to determine the efficacy of the courseware from the perspective of learning-teaching. The results indicated that most of the lessons…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Instruction, Courseware, Computer Software Evaluation
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