Education & learning publications
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Building A Foundation For Information Literacy: Creating An Annotated WWW-Index By Children For Children
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Programming Games For Learning About Magnetism And Electricity
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Facilitating Collaborative Problem Solving With Distant Mentor
This work addresses the problem of helping learners develop concepts and skills needed to be productive in the fast-changing technical workplace. It marries the kind of informal, on-demand learning preferred…
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Mentors In The Classroom: Bringing The World Outside In
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Designing For Cognitive Communication: Epistemic Fidelity Or Mediating Collaborating Inquiry
aps between worldviews prevent students from interpreting displays literally, and thus limit the extent to which communication can be achieved by representing knowledge accurately. Hence, rather than merely representing mental…
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Globe Year 1 Evaluation: Findings
Global learning and observations to benefit the environment (GLOBE) is an international environmental science and education program involving elementary and secondary school students in the collection of data concerning their…
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Using Information Technology For Delivering Education In The United States: A Status Report
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Educational Software Architecture And Systemic Impact: The Promise Of Component Software
This report describes results from a national telephone survey that asked parents about their attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to early learning, science learning, and digital media use...
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Scantron Administrator Training Guide
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Connecting The Connectivity And The Component Revolutions To Deep Curriculum Reform
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Protocol Modeling, Bifurcation/Bootstrapping, And Convince Me: Computer-Based Methods For Studying Beliefs And Their Revision
This paper traces a progression of four computer-based methods for studying and fostering both the structure and the on-line development of knowledge. Each empirical technique employs ECHO, a connectionist model…
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Learning In Interactive Environments: Prior Knowledge And New Experience
Educators often focus on the ideas that they want their audience to have. But research has shown that a learner’s prior knowledge often confounds an educator’s best efforts to deliver…