Digital learning publications
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Leveraging Handhelds To Increase Student Learning: Engaging Middle School Students With The Mathematics Of Change
Handheld computers are poised to build upon the success of graphing calculators in mathematics classrooms, as they share important characteristics such as small size and low cost, while increasing representational…
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Integrated Performance Assessments With Technology (IPAT): Design Model And Prototypes
This paper summarizes the design principles we have forged and some of the assessments we have developed that are particularly relevant to geoscience.
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Technology’s Contribution To Teaching And Policy: Efficiency, Standardization, Or Transformation?
We begin this chapter with a brief sketch of alternative perspectives on the ways in which technology can support education policy and practice. We will suggest that the connection between…
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Unlocking the Learning Value of Wireless Mobile Devices
Many researchers see the potential of wireless mobile learning devices to achieve large-scale impact on learning because of portability, low cost, and communications features.
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Unlocking The Learning Value Of Wireless Mobile Devices
At the moment ‘wireless mobile technologies for education’ are incredibly diverse and incompatible; to achieve scale, a strong vision will be needed to lead to standardisation, overcoming the tendency to…
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Media Inequality in Conversation: How People Behave Differently When Interacting With Computers and People
The present study presents a laboratory experiment grounded in the principles of Interpersonal Theory, a psychological approach to interpersonal dynamics. Discourse analyses revealed a key difference in participants ’ behavior…
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Research To Support Scaling-Up Technology-Based Educational Interventions
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Using Technology To Assess Students’ Web Expertise
This study investigated the use of an online authentic assessment tool to evaluate students’ fluency with the World Wide Web (WWW). Using our online Web Expertise Assessment and accompanying WWW…
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Policy And Planning Requirements For Designing Rigorous Evaluations Of Learning Technology
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The Case For Using Randomized Experiments In Research On Newer Educational Technologies: A Critique Of The Objections Raised And Alternatives
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Portable Assessment Authoring: Using Handheld Technology To Assess Collaborative Inquiry
This article reports on pilot studies of teachers and students using handheld computers to assess the quality of a complex, hard-to-measure classroom activity: student group work.
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Case Study Of Technology Access And Learning In Twelve Communities
Since 1999, the U.S. Department of Education has funded a major initiative to meet the needs for technology access and training through its Community Technology Centers program.