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Wargo, Jon M. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
Drawing on data from a multi-sited study examining making and makerspace technologies' impact on early social studies education, this article explores how two 1st-grade children mobilized digital media to write (right) a personal issue of geo-civic injustice. Using speculative civic literacies and sound studies as conceptual tools to interrogate…
Descriptors: Social Media, Social Studies, Critical Literacy, Teaching Methods
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Vuk, Sonja; Tacol, Tonka; Vogrinc, Janez – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2015
The immersive method is a new concept of visual education that is better suited to the needs of students in contemporary post-industrial society. The features of the immersive method are: (1) it emerges from interaction with visual culture; (2) it encourages understanding of contemporary art (as an integral part of visual culture); and (3) it…
Descriptors: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Immersion Programs, Problem Solving
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Gearon, Margaret Mary – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
Task-based learning has been recommended in immersion classes in order to provide relief from the usual teacher-fronted lessons and increase the opportunities for student output. This paper presents one aspect of the data collected during the on-going evaluation of a late partial immersion French programme in an Australian school. It presents the…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Interpersonal Communication, French, Bilingualism
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Binterová, Helena; Komínková, Olga – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2013
The main purpose of the work is to present a successful implementation of CLIL method in Mathematics lessons in elementary schools. Nowadays at all types of schools (elementary schools, high schools and universities) all over the world every school subject tends to be taught in a foreign language. In 2003, a document called Action plan for…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Mathematics, Curriculum Implementation
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2004
Interest in foreign-language instruction in preschool is growing, both among parents and early-childhood educators trying to meet the demand. The interest, though, comes at a time when some districts are scaling back on such programs in the elementary grades in order to spend more time on reading and mathematics--the subjects currently tested to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Language Skills, Preschool Children, Immersion Programs
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Prayaga, Lakshmi; Rasmussen, Karen L. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Computer games are no longer just for entertainment; they have also become a useful instructional strategy for acquiring knowledge. When games are used for purposes other than strict entertainment they become serious games. The goal of serious games is to enable the player to learn a task, master a strategy or develop a skill. Serious games can be…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods