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Bickford, John H. – History Teacher, 2021
Young children can engage in close reading, critical thinking, and historical thinking when age-appropriate texts are coupled with discipline-specific tasks. Prior knowledge is an impediment, though. Primary elementary learners simply do not have much of a historical schema. Because of primary elementary students' familiarity with Thanksgiving,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, United States History, Social Studies
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Blithe, Sarah Jane; Fidelibus, Brian – College Teaching, 2022
This paper describes a collaboration between one faculty instructor and seven undergraduate student collaborators. Together, the team designed a new college course. The analysis provides a practical way for educational leaders to challenge the authority of knowledge--engaging students in their education and motivating faculty to freshen their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Student Relationship, Cooperation
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Xia, Jianping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
The teaching strategy based on the case study guide is based on the case study guided, with teachers as the mainstay, students as the main body, and teacher-student working together to complete the teaching tasks, which is in line with Chinese education characteristics of localized teaching strategies. This teaching strategy advocates coordinating…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Teacher Student Relationship, Cooperation
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Brownell, Cassie J. – Education Sciences, 2020
Drawing on data generated following the 2016 United States presidential election, in this article the author considers how a classroom makerspace made Black girls' literacies visible in new ways. During a six-week integrated humanities unit in a third-grade public school classroom in the Midwestern U.S., four Black girls used making to create a…
Descriptors: African American Students, Females, Literacy, Grade 3
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Schiele, Kristen; Chen, Steven – Marketing Education Review, 2018
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how marketing educators can utilize the design-thinking process to create an engaged, high-impact learning experience for students. The guidelines of the assignment outlined in this article show how marketing students can utilize the design-thinking process in order to create a mobile application that…
Descriptors: Marketing, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Design
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France, Derek; Lee, Rebecca; Maclachlan, John; McPhee, Siobhán R. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
The extent of how mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are seamlessly incorporated into the personal day-to-day life is not often considered by University instructors. Unfocused incorporation of mobile technologies into the classroom can de-emphasize intended learning objectives if students struggle to use the technology itself or by…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Blackburn, Barbara R. – Eye on Education, 2018
Learn how to differentiate instruction while maintaining a rigorous learning environment. In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn shows that the differentiated classroom doesn't mean extra work for top students and easy work for others; instead, you can have high expectations for all students and provide scaffolding so that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Individualized Instruction, Difficulty Level, Educational Quality
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DiPasquale, Joshua – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2017
This paper is a reflection of my own individualistic participation in the EDUC 5001G: Principles of Learning (PoL) class wiki assignment. Specifically, I investigate the need for increased scaffolding strategies to facilitate direct collaboration among its participants. In order to do this, I first conducted a preliminary examination of the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Andrade, Maureen Snow – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2020
This conceptual article focuses on teaching and learning strategies aimed at helping students in higher education develop cross-crossing skills such as communication, critical thinking, teamwork, problem-solving, and working with diverse others. Within the framework of high impact practices and their elements, the article shares practical ideas…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Self Management, Assignments
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Mitri, Michel; Cole, Carey; Atkins, Laura – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2017
This paper presents a role-play exercise and assignment that provides an active learning experience related to the system investigation phase of an SDLC. Whether using waterfall or agile approaches, the first SDLC step usually involves system investigation activities, including problem identification, feasibility study, cost-benefit analysis, and…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Assignments, Teaching Methods, Cost Effectiveness
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Sahlin, Johannes S.; Tsertsidis, Antony; Islam, M. Sirajul – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
During recent years, many schools have started to implement information and communication technologies (ICTs)-based learning devices (such as laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and active boards) in the classroom settings in order to increase learning outcomes. The aim of this study is to find which activities and outcomes are evident in the usages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration
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Schwartz, Lisa H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
Youths' learner-generated designs, instantiated in digital practices, spaces and artifacts, are underutilized in schools. Additionally, digital media tools are often taken up in reductive ways that serve to perpetuate deficit discourses for youth from nondominant communities, rather than reflect the creativity and innovation that youth practice…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Multiple Literacies, Literacy, High School Students
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Crossman, Joanne M.; Kite, Stacey L. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2012
This study contributes to scant empirical investigation of peer critique of writing among heterogeneously grouped native and nonnative speakers of English, now commonplace in higher education. This mixed-methods study investigated the use of directed peer review to improve writing among graduate students, the majority of whom were nonnative…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback (Response), Business Communication, Graduate Students
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Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Pourshafie, Tahereh; Reyes, Wilma Santos – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Group work, an essential component of learning and teaching in problem-based learning (PBL), is compromised if students' experiences of PBL are colored by dissatisfaction with the process or outcomes. For the potential benefits of PBL to be realized PBL group work must be genuinely collaborative to address students' personal and professional…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Preservice Teachers, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
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Wu, Greg Chung-Hsien – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2014
This pilot study aims at integrating a socio-pragmatic concept, Cooperative Principles, into an experimental writing project on the genres of comparison and contrast. It reports on a six-week study of five undergraduates voluntarily recruited in a university located in central Taiwan. In surveying their writing momentum before and after the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Literary Genres, English (Second Language)
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