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Kimberly Evagelatos Beck; Jessica F. Shumway; Umar Shehzad; Jody Clarke-Midura; Mimi Recker – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
In the United States, school curricula are often created and taught with distinct boundaries between disciplines. This division between curricular areas may serve as a hindrance to students' long-term learning and their ability to generalize. In contrast, cross-curricular pedagogy provides a way for students to think beyond the classroom walls and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Computer Science Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Elementary School Teachers
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Ostashewski, Nathaniel; Moisey, Susan; Reid, Doug – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2011
This report explores the first iteration of a teacher professional development courselet grounded in constructionist theory and activities. This online teacher professional development (oTPD) courselet provided opportunities for teachers to engage in just-in-time, ongoing TPD within a social networking site for educators. The topic of the oTPD was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Web Based Instruction
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Denning, Peter J.; Hiles, John E. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Transformational Events is a new pedagogic pattern that explains how innovations (and other transformations) happened. The pattern is three temporal stages: an interval of increasingly unsatisfactory ad hoc solutions to a persistent problem (the "mess"), an offer of an invention or of a new way of thinking, and a period of widespread adoption and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Innovation, Sequential Approach, Prediction