Education & learning publications
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Collaboration Design Patterns: Conceptual Tools For Planning For The Wireless Classroom
Our approach is to create conceptual tools that help us think and talk about technology-supported collaborative learning.
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Designing Assessments For Student Multimedia Projects
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Integrating Palm Technology Into WISE Inquiry Curriculum: Two School District Partnerships
We describe a program of research to explore how Palm Pilot technology can facilitate inquiry activities in K-12 science and mathematics curriculum.
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Orchestrating Handhelds In The Classroom With SRI’s Classsync
In our interactive experience, we address the problem of a teacher or other leader managing the use of electronic communication devices by their students.
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Learning Chemistry Through The Use Of A Representation-Based Knowledge Building Environment
The ChemSense project is a multidisciplinary program of research and development to examine the impact of representational tools, chemical investigations, and discourse on chemistry learning and teaching in high schools…
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Using Technology To Enhance Connections Between Home And School: A Research Synthesis
The purpose of this report is to synthesize research on the effectiveness of programs that use technology to improve links between home and school, with the aim of guiding future…
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A Framework For Quality In Educational Technology Programs
Highlights include clearly articulated goals; developing learning and thinking skills; equity for educational excellence; promoting organizational change; measurable evidence of effectiveness; and usefulness to others, including adaptability, sustainability, and scalability.
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Rich Social Interaction In An Online Community For Learning
Synchronous online communities for learning have been criticized because participant contributions do not seem to build on each other.
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Palm Education Pioneers Program Round I Preliminary Evaluation Report
Through the PEP program, Palm has equipped more than 175 classrooms throughout the United States with a handheld computer for every student. CTL’s research will help determine the impact that…
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Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Processing of Multi-Party Meetings? Evidence from Predicting Punctuation, Disfluencies,and Overlapping Speech
We investigate whether probabilistic modeling of prosody can aid various automatic labeling tasks essential for processing of multi-party meetings.
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Handheld Computers In Education: Current Trends And Future Research
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The Need For A Coordinated Engineering Discipline For The Production Of Educational Software