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Ian Thacker; Hannah French; Shon Feder – International Journal of Science Education, 2025
Presenting novel numbers about climate change to people after they estimate those numbers can shift their attitudes and scientific conceptions. Prior research suggests that such science learning can be supported by encouraging learners to make use of given benchmark information, however there are several other numerical estimation skills that may…
Descriptors: Climate, Computation, College Students, Hispanic American Students
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Weipeng Yang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
Computational Thinking (CT) is essential for developing creativity, problem-solving, and digital competence in the 21st century. Coding tools like robotic toys and tablet apps have become popular in early childhood education to support CT development, but there is a debate on which tool is more effective. Little evidence exists on the effect of…
Descriptors: Coding, Preschool Children, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Baccaglini-Frank, Anna; Carotenuto, Gemma; Sinclair, Nathalie – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Research has highlighted the potential of digital technology to support the development of children's number sense abilities. However, the main focus of such research has been on apps affording directed interactions, where only one solution strategy is available, and it has targeted mostly cardinality. Little is known, in these terms, about task…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, Number Concepts
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Zha, Shenghua; Jin, Yi; Moore, Pamela; Gaston, Joe – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Researchers and educators have advocated computational thinking (CT) should be integrated into K-12 settings as early as elementary schools. However, there has been a lack of knowledge of how pre-service K-8 teachers would be engaged in the learning of CT and its integration in different subject areas. In this study, we taught a flipped learning…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Thinking Skills
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Papadakis, Stamatios, Ed.; Kalogiannakis, Michail, Ed. – Lecture Notes in Educational Technology, 2022
This book brings together a collection of work from around the world in order to consider effective STEM, robotics, mobile apps education from a range of perspectives. It presents valuable perspectives--both practical and theoretical--that enrich the current STEM, robotics, mobile apps education agenda. As such, the book makes a substantial…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Robotics, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
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Disney, Leigh; Barnes, Alan; Ey, Lesley; Geng, Gretchen – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Advances in technology have seen a proliferation of touch-screen interfaces available to young children. These screens have changed the way in which young children engage with digital technology; with increased exposure and use, it raises debates about the suitability of integrating digital technology within early childhood settings. There are…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Numeracy, Young Children
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Quinn, Anne – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
While looking for an inexpensive technology package to help students in statistics classes, the author found StatKey, a free Web-based app. Not only is StatKey useful for students' year-end projects, but it is also valuable for helping students learn fundamental content such as the central limit theorem. Using StatKey, students can engage in…
Descriptors: Statistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
Squire, Kurt; Gaydos, Matthew; DeVane, Ben – Educational Technology, 2016
Digital games for learning have quickly transitioned from a theoretical possibility, to a hyped technology, to an idea that almost seems quaint compared to advances in Biochips, Smart Robots, and self-driving cars. As a field, it is now better understand what games are good for, what they are not, and in what kinds of situations they can be…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Educational Technology, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Tucker, Stephen I.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Westenskow, Arla; Jordan, Kerry E. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between app affordances and user abilities in second graders' interactions with mathematics virtual manipulative touchscreen tablet apps. The research questions focused on varying manifestations of affordance-ability relationships during children's interactions with mathematics virtual…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Cooper, Linda; Dennis, Emily – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
More than 2,200 years ago, Eratosthenes, who was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, used a simple proportion involving the distance between two ancient cities and measures of shadows cast in those cities during a summer solstice to estimate the circumference of Earth (Nicastro 2008, 25-28). Today, middle school students can use…
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Oriented Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Shumway, Jessica F.; Bullock, Emma P.; Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Tucker, Stephen I.; Westenskow, Arla; Boyer-Thurgood, Jennifer; Gulkilik, Hilal; Watts, Christina; Jordan, Kerry – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The purpose of this project was to examine young children's mathematics learning using virtual manipulative touch-screen apps. We interviewed over 100 young children as they interacted with mathematics apps on iPads and examined how these interactions supported mathematics learning and contributed to changes in efficiency. Children interacted with…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Falloon, Garry – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2017
Despite successive waves of technological innovation being rapidly adopted by schools, teaching methods and curriculum designs have been slow to evolve in response to the affordances offered by an increasing array of digital devices. This project explored student thinking, problem solving and collaboration when using digital tablets (iPads) for a…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education