Physics experiments powered by a universal serial bus (USB) connection are becoming increasingly common. With teachers going through so many batteries each year, USB-powered physics provides an economical and environmentally friendly alternative. In this article, the authors discuss several ways that USB power can provide a convenient way to do…

How can you raise your students' awareness of the use of listening strategies? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Listening." It explores different approaches to teaching listening in second language classrooms and contains a new…

The purpose of this case study was to investigate K-12 teachers' perceptions of technology leadership conditions that lead to successful technology integration at one particular school where professional development and technology are available and successful technology integration are known to have occurred. Technology integration and technology…

This exploratory research study used quantitative methods to explore patterns of special education teachers' assistive technology knowledge and use. Barriers to assistive technology (AT) use and facilitators that impact assistive technology use were also identified and explored. The following research questions were addressed: 1) what do special…

The Capacity Building for Higher Education (CBHE) action of the Erasmus+ Programme supports the modernisation and development of HEIs and educational systems in the Partner Countries. The higher education sector is a driving force for the economy and society as a whole and the role of the CBHE action is important as it has a long-term structural…

Nowadays, improvements in teaching are closely related to the use of technologies which have been defined as unprecedented educational tools. This study analyzes the use that 118 Spanish teachers make of five digital tools; Google, Wikis, Blogs, YouTube and WhatsApp in the educational center and the impact of the socio-labor variables of these…

ICT use has gained currency in the realm of education for about three decades. This has led to a proliferation of ICT research studies in educational settings, which has also made it more challenging for ICT practitioners and researchers to keep up with the current trends and identify the research gaps in the literature. In regard to this, the…

This inquiry explored preservice teachers (PSTs) developing learner and professional identities while participating in a university course that explicitly incorporates the use of technology into teaching. The paper posits that it is important for initial teacher education to explicitly engage with the role of technology in these developing…

Interdisciplinary is a huge innovation in education. It sets a wide perspective of knowledge boundaries with different background of expertise in order to achieve better outcome and social impact. Innovation in the other way closely related to creative mind as being portrayed as design thinking. A cross-field research has being conducted between…

"Cases are stories with a message. They are not simply narratives for entertainment. They are stories to educate" (Herreid, 1997, p. 92). By this definition, a case study is two things: a story and a strategy to drive learning. Although the story typically comes from a narrative purposefully written for the classroom, such as the case…

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) enable lifelong learning and make competences visible in education and professional life. This paper illuminates how to design an online learning process that enables deep learning through PLEs based upon our study of a scaffolding process supported by Web 2.0 tools. Professional student teachers developed…

What is the difference between schools who are using technology effectively and those who are not? More often than not, says Culatta, it comes down to creating a vision for learning before jumping into buying devices or software. Culatta describes how using a shared set of digital-learning strategies helped the Los Angeles Unified School District…

This study proposes a technological dimension of organizational justice and empirically investigates how this dimension takes form in a measure of justice. The study conducted the work within the higher education sector in Oman and collected the data from nine universities and higher institutes of learning. Participants represent a range of…

Students in Indonesia have been cutting classes for some time now and it has become a bad habit. They leave their house toward their educational institutions, either school or college, but in fact, they go somewhere else. The issue was supported by the lack of communication between the schools and parents related to the student attendance. Dealing…

This article reports on a study that explored the management of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. In particular it focuses on the use of ICT in the pre-service teacher's classroom in the South African context. The study was interventionist in that pre-service teachers were trained how to use ICT in teaching…