Education & learning publications
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Designing Student-Computer Interactions For Guided Inquiry Learning Environments
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Tapped In: A New On-Line Community Concept For The Next Generation Of Internet Technology
We present the theoretical foundations of our concept, the rationale behind the design of the TAPPED IN virtual environment, and our community-building approach.
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Role Of Technology In Student-Scientist Partnerships: Perspective From The National Science Foundation
Abstract A variety of student-scientist partnerships (SSPs) have evolved over the years in the K-12 classroom, providing students, teachers, and scientists with activities and experiences not available from any other…
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VILTS: The Voice-Interactive Language Training System
ECHOS is a voice interactive language training system being developed to foster improvement in French comprehension and speaking skills, incorporating speech recognition and pronunciation evaluation.
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Netlearning: Why Teachers Use The Internet
This book addresses the educational benefits of connecting to the Internet and shows how various educators use Internet features to support their curriculum goals.
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Scatter/Gather Browsing Communicates The Topic Structure Of A Very Large Text Collection
Users are presented with automatically computed summaries of the contents of clusters of similar documents and provided with a method for navigating through these summaries at different levels of granularity.…
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Programming Games For Learning About Magnetism And Electricity
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Building A Foundation For Information Literacy: Creating An Annotated WWW-Index By Children For Children
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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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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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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…