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Thomas, Amanda – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2017
Increasing availability of digital devices in elementary school classrooms presents exciting new opportunities for teachers to support the teaching and learning of mathematics. Although many of the math applications available for these devices focus on drill and practice of mathematical procedures, screencasting apps can help support effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Applications
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Resendes, Monica; Scardamalia, Marlene; Bereiter, Carl; Chen, Bodong; Halewood, Cindy – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2015
This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their metadiscourse. Two aspects of knowledge work were common to the comparison and experimental classes: "Knowledge Building talk" (KB talk) involving…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Meta Analysis, Grade 2
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Harr, Natalie; Doneyko, Kathleen; Lee, Richard E., Jr. – Science and Children, 2012
The students at Crestwood Primary School proved that they have what it takes to exercise their bodies and their minds. In an effort to support their teacher's scientific expedition to Antarctica, students from kindergarten to second grade pledged to read books and do physical activity that equated to the 12,900 km (8,000-mile) journey to the…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Science
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Lapp, Diane; Shea, Andrea; Wolsey, Thomas DeVere – Journal of Education, 2011
Weblogs or blogging may foreground audience needs for a written work and help novice authors grow in audience awareness and elicit and use audience feedback. A case study of a second-grade classroom compared students' growing audience awareness and the ways they addressed audience needs. Analysis of student written work, students' comments to…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Electronic Publishing, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer Mediated Communication
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Hadley, Kathryn; Korb, Michele – Science and Children, 2007
The projection screen in the dimly lit auditorium was ready and an online chat window was open on the computer screen. Computer experts and entomologists were ready on the other end. One by one, students filled up the rows of seats eagerly anticipating what was going to happen next. Each student was asked to close their eyes. Ms. Hadley asked…
Descriptors: Laboratory Equipment, Entomology, Internet, Science Instruction
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Boxie, Paula – T.H.E. Journal, 2004
This case study looks at teacher candidates who were enrolled in a content-area literacy course and used online technologies and literacy strategies to promote meaningful learning among students at a remote elementary school some 45 miles away from the university campus. As they worked under the guidance of a classroom teacher, a professor and a…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers