Search results for: “Technology Education”
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The Future of Technology and Education: Where are we heading?
The four C’s for the future of education are: Community, Collaboration, Curriculum, and Creativity. Each of these is used to organize a discussion of where we are heading in education during the Age of Communities.
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Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Work in Learning Communities
This paper proposes a collaborative approach to building knowledge that integrates theory and practice in diverse contexts. “Lesson study circles” (similar to learning circles and to ThinkQuest teams) are proposed as a strategy for professional knowledge building in education.
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Breaking The Mold: Technology-Based Science Assessment In The 21st Century
This article will focus solely on how technology is changing the world of educational testing.
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Organizing Principles for Science Education Partnerships: Case Studies of Students’ Learning About ‘Rats in Space’ and ‘Deformed Frogs
We show that our Scaffolded Knowledge Integration framework gives partnerships a head start on effective designs. We illustrate this process with the Deformed Frogs partnership and the Rats in Space partnership.
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From Moo To Meow: Domesticating Technology For Online Communities
Informed by our experience with TAPPED IN and reviews of related work, we are developing a new online “community-ware” technology called MEOW (Multi-user Educational Online Workspace) which can scale to handle large virtual communities.
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Toward A Learning Technologies Knowledge Network
This paper describes the rationale and operations of the NSF-funded Center, and first-year progress in defining a set of CILT partnership projects with many other institutions that came out of our national theme-team workshops.
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Cornerstones For An Online Community Of Education Professionals
Our goal is to learn how to grow a self-sustaining on-line community of education professionals that supports and enhances the professional growth of its members over the length of their careers.
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Performance Assessment Links In Science (Pals): On-Line, Interactive Resources
We will discuss the role performance assessments can play in education reforms, suggest how technology expands the ways in which educators can access and use standards-based assessments and more.
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Connecting With The Twenty-First Century: Technology In Support Of Educational Reform
We present an alternative image of what schools might be like and a set of interlocking social, pedagogical and technological changes that could transform the educational enterprise.
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Scalable Integration Of Educational Software: Exploring The Promise Of Component Architectures
We describe an exploratory effort in which four research groups produced software components for the mathematics of motion.
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Melding Authentic Science, Technology, And Inquiry-Based Teaching: Experiences Of The Globe Program
Initial findings from the evaluation of the GLOBE Program are used to shed light on three issues concerning student-scientist partnerships.
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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 source. Characteristically these activities are inquiry-based or design-oriented and aligned with Benchmarks (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993), (National Research Council of the National Academy…