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Cross Francis, Dionne; Tan, Verily; Nicholas, Celeste – School Science and Mathematics, 2019
In this paper, we examined students' engagement in an implementation of a Workplace Simulation Project (WSP). The WSP was designed to actively engage students in learning disciplinary content by inviting engineers from industry to have a physical presence within the school building to collaborate with teachers and students to complete projects…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Design, Simulation
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Siegel, Joseph – ELT Journal, 2019
Authentic materials such as TED Talks have become an everyday presence in the ELT classroom, often for practice listening and taking notes. However, teachers can struggle to teach the sub-skills that are involved in notetaking, and instead often simply tell students to 'take notes'. This approach lacks the scaffolding required for the complex…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Secondary School Students, Speeches, Teaching Methods
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Runco, Mark A. – Creativity Theory and Action in Education, 2017
This chapter explores the various relationships that exist between contradictions and creativity. The focus is education, with implications for both teachers and students. Contradictions are defined and contrasted with problems, disequilibria, and dilemmae. Product, place, personality, and process perspectives on creativity as also compared. The…
Descriptors: Creativity, Correlation, Comparative Analysis, Personality Traits
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Holmén, Johan; Adawi, Tom; Holmberg, John – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: While sustainability-oriented education is increasingly placing importance on engaging students in inter- and transdisciplinary learning processes with societal actors and authentic challenges in the centre, little research attends to how and what students learn in such educational initiatives. This paper aims to address this by opening…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Learning Processes, Social Environment
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Sakkir, Geminastiti; Dollah, Syarifuddin; Arsyad, Safnil; Ahmad, Jamaluddin – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
This research aims to contribute to the knowledge of lectures about design materials in using social media Facebook in learning writing process to English Department students. Before conducted the developing module for Facebook-based writing instructional course, we surveyed and explored the student's need. The stages of this research consisted of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Undergraduate Students, Needs Assessment, Writing Instruction
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Rodas, Elisabeth L.; Colombo, Laura – TESL-EJ, 2021
Peer response writing groups present several benefits in language learning classrooms. However, they are usually supervised by the instructor and thus become time consuming when carried out in class. This descriptive case study offers a model for extramural peer feedback and analyzes 12 meeting transcriptions of four undergraduate EFL writing…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Directed Groups, Meetings, Peer Evaluation
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Meseci Giorgetti, Filiz; Çeven, Gözde; Topaloglu, Hakan; Gülen, Eyüp; Garip, Emre – Educational Administration: Theory & Practice, 2018
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate whether the PSs Schools (PSs) carry the qualifications of a qualified school, based on the views of school administrators and the documents on the websites of these schools. Within the scope of this research, qualified school is defined as a school concentrates on students' nature, pays attention to the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, School Administration, Experimental Schools, Institutional Autonomy
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O'Neil, Tara – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2018
Over the past 7 years I have dramatically changed my pedagogy in a quest to engage junior primary students in deep, authentic learning. This article concentrates on how I have come to support junior primary students to learn to write. It explains how I developed play-based learning through the books I read, the social media I became active in, and…
Descriptors: Play, Authentic Learning, Elementary School Students, Writing Instruction
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Galway, Gerald J.; Maddigan, Beth; Stordy, Mary – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2020
In this yearlong qualitative study, situated within cognitive and social constructivist theory, the authors investigate the adoption of tablets (iPads) by a group of nine teacher educators for use in pre-service teacher instruction. Using data gathered from focus groups following each of three teaching terms, the authors examined how teacher…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Clark, Renee M.; Wang, Mohan; Splain, Zachary A.; Chen, Kevin P. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: A hybrid approach involving reduced lecture content with project-based learning (PBL) was introduced to a standalone course in optics at an engineering school not specialized in this area, with promising results. Background: At most schools, optics is an elective "niche" area involving a single senior course. This presents…
Descriptors: Optics, Light, Lasers, Active Learning
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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Utami, Ika Qutsiati; Purba, Siska Wati Dewi; Chen, Holly S. L. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2020
This paper aimed to investigate the effect of a mobile app on mathematics learning in authentic contexts. Authentic contexts contain rich resources wherein students can use authentic objects as aid in advanced educational technology-assisted mathematics learning. We designed Ubiquitous-Fraction (U-Fraction), a mobile application that helps…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Web Based Instruction
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Telaumbanua, Yohannes – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
The facts disclosed that Indonesian English Department (ED) students have difficulty disassembling the SIM and SPOSS in a practical sense. This happens because the SofLP as a fundamental theory and poem as the authentic learning medium to dismantle the Speaker's Intended Meaning (SIM) and Speaker's Purpose-Oriented Speech Situation (SPOSS) have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Seedhouse, Paul; Heslop, Phil; Kharruf, Ahmed – TESL-EJ, 2020
Cooking is a universal task of humanity and is intimately linked with culture and language. This article explains the advantages of using real-world cooking as a basis for task-based and technology-assisted language learning. It outlines how the latest digital technology can be used by learners over the Internet to learn aspects of languages and…
Descriptors: Cooking Instruction, Internet, Food, Curriculum Enrichment
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Sharma, Madhav; Biros, David; Ayyalasomayajula, Surya; Dalal, Nikunj – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2020
Teaching introductory programming to IS students is challenging. The educational, technological, demographic, and cultural landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. The post-millennial generation has different needs and expectations in an era of open resources. Learning to program is perceived as difficult, teaching approaches are…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Programming, Computer Science Education, Undergraduate Students
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Tran, Dung; Nguyen, Duyen Thi; Nguyen, An Thi Tan; Nguyen, Giang-Nguyen Thi; Ta, Phuong Minh – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
To address the upcoming reform curriculum initiative following competency-based learning in Vietnam, this study examines how variations of a contextualized task allow students to experience the mathematical modelling process. We explore how Grade 10 students respond to tasks with different levels of authenticity when they first attempt such tasks.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
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