by J. Cameron Anglum, Laura Desimone & Kirsten Hill - 2020
This study analyzes the implementation of a blended learning middle school mathematics intervention in a large urban school district in the northeastern United States. The study examines how teachers integrate blended learning strategies into their pedagogical practices and what factors, including school, teacher, and student attributes, facilitate or hinder these approaches.
by Stacey Rutledge, Vanessa Dennen & Lauren Bagdy - 2019
In this multilevel exploratory case study, we examined the intersection of adolescent social media use and administrators’ and teachers’ work in one Florida high school. We found that students and adults engaged in active and intentional community building and informal learning across social media sites, however, these activities were separate from the formal activities in schools.
by Christine Greenhow, Vincent Cho, Vanessa Dennen & Barry Fishman - 2019
As social media impact our lives in myriad ways, research on education and social media continues to grow, prompting the need to reflect on where the field should go from here to conduct the most impactful scholarship. Accordingly, this article proposes research directions and approaches that promise to advance this expanding field, grounded in insights from the long history of studying technology in education, including over a decade of research on social media.
by Daniel Krutka, Stefania Manca, Sarah Galvin, Christine Greenhow, Matthew Koehler & Emilia Askari - 2019
In this chapter, the authors argue that educators should teach “against” the problematic aspects of social media platforms, namely, components designed by companies to increase profits. They detail five aspects of this phenomenon, with each section outlining the problem and offering education suggestions.
by Diana Brandon - 2019
This chapter summarizes the activities and outcomes of the 2018 #Cloud2Class conference on social media in education. Reflections on the organization, execution, and future effects of the event are included.
by Kaitlin Torphy & Corey Drake - 2019
This chapter builds on the notion of a Fifth Estate to examine education change and teaching within the 21st century. Using an application exercise with preservice teachers’ curation of instructional resources, we examine their reflections on the use of social media for professional purposes and instructional planning.
by Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Annalee Good & Carolyn Heinrich - 2019
We investigate and identify disparate access to quality educational experiences in online credit-recovery labs, which mirror those documented by others in traditional instructional settings based on class-based expectations. Based on our analysis, we propose strategies to support more equitable learning in online courses including providing explicit expectations and proactive assistance to students, using real-time data by teachers, accommodating lower student-teacher ratios, and assigning to online labs teachers certified in the course subjects in which students enroll.
by Amy Stornaiuolo & T. Philip Nichols - 2018
This article focuses on how a new urban public high school created a media production lab to put making practices at the center of teaching and learning.
by Kenneth Graves & Alex Bowers - 2018
This study investigates the extent to which there is a typology of teachers who use technology, using a nationally generalizable dataset from the National Center of Education Statistics.
by Susanne Lajoie & Eric Poitras - 2017
This article reviews recent advances in research by members of the Learning Environments Across Disciplines partnership on the design of adaptive technology-rich learning environments as cognitive, metacognitive, and affective tools. In particular, we examine the use of convergent methodologies and how the design guidelines of the learning environments are grounded in instructional theories and empirical evidence.
by Herbert Ginsburg - 2017
This article discusses how high quality software can both promote children’s math learning and also provide analytic tools for studying its development over time. Macrogenetic research on digital learning can contribute to the further development of effective math education software, shed light on children’s math learning, and also largely eliminate the need for high-stakes testing and traditional achievement tests.
by Korinn Ostrow, Neil Heffernan & Joseph Williams - 2017
This article defines how educational technologies can be leveraged for use in collaborative research environments by highlighting the research revolution of ASSISTments, a popular online learning platform, and by outlining the many benefits made possible through educational research at scale.
by Soobin Yim, Mark Warschauer & Binbin Zheng - 2016
This case study attempts to understand the contemporary challenges of implementing the collaborative web-based tool and its accompanying opportunities, as well as the contextual factors for its implementation within the district.
by Loris Fagioli, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar & Regina Deil-Amen - 2015
Community college leaders are now turning to social media/social networking sites for new avenues and opportunities to increase students’ interaction, engagement, and collaboration with peers, faculty, and staff. This study examines the use of social media/social networking sites and its relationship to social capital and academic success in the context of community colleges.
by David Passig & Timor Schwartz - 2014
This study used Virtual Reality (VR) technology to simulate conceptual and perceptual analogies and examined their impact on the analogical thinking of kindergarten children enrolled in public education. It compared the effectiveness of immersive 3D VR to better enhance their ability to solve both kinds of analogies with the effectiveness of picture cards and found VR to be more effective.
by Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo, Ryan Baker & Lisa Rossi - 2013
We compared levels of off-task behavior exhibited by students using educational software in the Philippines and the United States. We found that students in the Philippines exhibited significantly less off-task behavior and more gaming the system than students in the United States.
by Jianzhong Xu & Jianxia Du - 2013
The study examines empirical models of variables posited to predict students’ motivation management in online groupwork.
by James Laspina - 2013
The chapter examines John Dewey’s concepts of society and the public in the context of digital technology and its potential to transform society and the moral ethos of the public school. I argue that Dewey’s theory of society and the public, though articulated for an industrial age, are, like his moral vision of social democracy and public education, still of perennial importance as a ethical lens to frame and critique the emerging network society and publics.
by Barbara Means, Yukie Toyama, Robert Murphy & Marianne Baki - 2013
This meta-analysis of the online learning literature includes 50 independent effects from controlled studies that contrasted either purely online or a blend of online and face-to-face instruction with a condition in which all instruction was conducted face-to-face. The meta-analysis found that on average, learners experiencing blends of online and face-to-face instruction learned modestly more than those whose instruction was entirely face-to-face.
by Lalitha Vasudevan - 2011
In this chapter, the concept of multimodal selves is used to explore the literacies of adolescents as researched within the context of two ethnographic studies. Following a discussion of the multimediated terrains of adolescents’ literacies, the chapter concludes with questions for further consideration that emerge from a critical engagement with multimodality in designing literacy pedagogy.
by Donna Alvermann - 2011
This article is an interpretive analysis of recent research that suggests the following: the work of students who self-identify as users and producers of multimodal digital texts is rarely visible to their teachers, institutional contexts for secondary schooling and literacy teacher education may wittingly or unwittingly contribute to this invisibility, and yet, despite this invisibility, classroom teachers, school library media specialists, and teacher educators are increasingly becoming aware of the instructional implications of young people’s uses of multimodal digital texts to construct online literate identities.
by Louanne Smolin & Kimberly Lawless - 2007
Although it is clear that efforts to align teaching and learning to the new affordances of information and communication technologies (ICT) are necessary in order to realize their full pedagogical potential, such reform efforts are extremely challenging, particularly for the teachers and teacher educators who must implement them.
by Chris Dede - 2007
This chapter attempts to answer the question: If we were to redesign education not to make historic models of schooling more efficient, but instead to prepare students for the 21st century—simultaneously transforming teaching in light of our current knowledge about the mind— what types of learning environments might sophisticated ICT enable us to create?
by Steve Jones, Camille Johnson-Yale, Francisco Seoane Pérez & Jessica Schuler - 2007
The goal of this chapter is to report key results from this research (which at this time has not yet been published) and to draw conclusions from the data that documents the differences between students’ and professors’ use of and attitudes toward Internet technologies, along with the potential impact of these differences.
by James Pellegrino, Susan Goldman, Meryl Bertenthal & Kimberly Lawless - 2007
Our goal in this chapter is to suggest a strategy for exploring the issues surrounding the preparation of teachers to integrate technology effectively in classrooms to support learning. We do so in the context of our What Works and Why (WWW) project, a multiyear research project that is attempting to examine the instructional and learning experiences of students in eight major teacher preparation programs.
by Charalambos Vrasidas & Gene Glass - 2007
Attempts to integrate ICT into the classroom are influenced by such things as the availability of the necessary technology infrastructure, support for teachers, accessible change models, teachers’ practices, curriculum constraints, assessment practices, education policies, and professional development.
by Geneva Haertel, Barbara Means & William Penuel - 2007
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the ways in which technology is transforming practices of assessment and educational decision making.
by Hilary Goldmann - 2007
How likely is it that most teacher candidates graduate from an institution of higher education and begin their first teaching assignment entering a classroom that is replete with the latest technology tools and digital resources and provided the necessary educational technology mentoring and support they need to master their use of these tools to enhance content and pedagogy?
by Mark Warschauer - 2007
In this chapter, I first explore five types of digital difference that impact teaching and learning, which I call school access, home access, school use, gender gap, and generation gap, and then discuss strategies that teachers and schools can use to help overcome these multiple divides.
by Sharon Tettegah, Eun Whang, Nakia Collins & Kona Taylor - 2007
This chapter will offer a research-based discussion on why it is critical for teacher educators and pre-service and practicing teachers to have the skills and knowledge to engage diversity, multicultural, and social justice activities using technology, and how a web portal designed with this in mind has managed to make a difference.
