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Stokrocki, Mary – Art Education, 2014
Treasure quests in virtual worlds can help students develop multi-literacy communication skills and promote community, offering insights about art teaching and learning. As part of the new media literacy, students explore the offerings of Second Life (SL), a virtual world, as a series of quests. Multi-literacy involves communication. Through their…
Descriptors: Art Education, Communication Skills, Multiple Literacies, Computer Simulation
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Alvey, Tara L.; Phillips, Nathan C.; Bigelow, Emily C.; Smith, Blaine E.; Pfaff, Erin; Colt, Walt; Leander, Kevin M.; Dalton, Bridget; Ma, Jasmine Y. – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
This classroom narrative proposes a process for reinventing academic research and writing in secondary schools for the 21st Century. We build on Macrorie's (1988) I-Search paper, drawing on affordances of Web 2.0 technologies and culture, to initiate the iSearch 2.0 process. iSearch 2.0 consists of four phases: 1) messing about and trying on…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Web 2.0 Technologies, Search Strategies
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Powell, Beth – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 1996
Tells stories of children in their first year of school (mostly age five) who were using calculators for the first time. Implications are that children's thinking moves from a rough to a more thorough and refined grasp of the whole. Learning mathematics with calculators is more like the learning of language than traditional classroom mathematics.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculators, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Processes
Pappas, Marjorie L. – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2000
Defines inquiry, a student-centered discovery process, and introduces Pathways to Knowledge(TM), an information process model that provides stages and strategies for anyone interested in gathering, using, and evaluating information. Describes the six stages of Pathways: Appreciation, Presearch; Search; Interpretation; Communication; and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Critical Thinking, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
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Solomon, Joan – Primary Science Review, 1997
Because children are in danger of losing their curiosity in adolescence, science teaching in primary school is of critical importance. Nurturing curiosity requires that the locus of control must reside with the learner. Instructional density (the amount of teaching) must not inhibit children's thinking and decision-making so as to remove the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Course Content, Curiosity, Discovery Processes
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Hammer, David – Cognition and Instruction, 1997
Presents an account of a week of learning and instruction from a high school physics course to provide a context for discussion of the role and demands of teacher inquiry. Argues coordination of student inquiry and traditional content is a matter of discerning and responding to students' particular strengths and needs. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Creative Teaching, Discovery Learning
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Martin, Ruth A. – Science and Children, 1997
Hands-on science activities and first-hand experiences of kindergartners studying trees demonstrate the true meaning of authentic assessment. The activities and teacher interactions had several things in common: (1) they asked students to perform or create something; (2) they invoked real-world applications; (3) they showed that there is more than…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Processes