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Pre-Service Teachers' Knowledge for Teaching Algebra for Equity in the Middle Grades: A Preliminary Report

Algebra
Cyberlearning
Gaming/Virtual Environments
Professional Development
Middle
Access Link
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_=&ERICEx…
Author/Presenter

Irving Brown

Trina Davis

Gerald Kulm

Lead Organization(s)
Texas A&M University
Year
2011
Short Description

This article presents our plans and initial work to explore how mathematics teacher education programs can prepare teachers for diverse middle grades classrooms. It describes the start-up of a five-year National Science Foundation project to design, develop, and test technology-enriched teacher preparation strategies to address equity in algebra learning. The participants in this pilot group demonstrated a need to develop their mathematical problem-solving skills, but they also exhibited strong beliefs about their own potential to be successful in the mathematics classroom. Preliminary results appear to indicate that Second Life (software) simulations can provide rich settings for teacher development on specific mathematics teaching skills and challenge them to apply their ideas about diversity. (Contains 5 tables and 4 figures.)

Research on Student Understanding of Data Organization

Curriculum
Cyberlearning
Educational Technology
Mathematics
Gaming/Virtual Environments
Technology
Middle
High
Access Link
http://cadrek12.org/sites/default/files/NSFPI2010Poster.pdf
Author/Presenter

Cliff Konold

Vishakha Parvate

William Finzer

Year
2010
Short Description

As part of the Data Games project, we are researching how students record and organize multivariate data. This research is informing the design of new software interfaces for Fathom and TinkerPlots that will allow students to explore and understand data that live in other than "flat" data structures — the structures that most software tools currently limit themselves to.
We have designed the Traffic Problem to explore the following questions:
1. What methods do novices and experts use to sytematically record data with multiple attributes?
2. In recording data, do students employ a recognizable notion of “case?"

Geniverse/NextBio Proposal

Biology
Cyberlearning
High

The proposal for the Geniverse project. This project was proposed as NextBio; the name was subsequently changed to Geniverse.

Access Link
http://cadrek12.org/sites/default/files/Public%20Version%20NextBio.pdf
Author/Presenter

Dorsey, Chad

Reichsman, Frieda

Year
2009
Short Description

The proposal for the Geniverse project. This project was proposed as NextBio; the name was subsequently changed to Geniverse.

Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground

Cyberlearning
Educational Technology
Elementary
Middle
High

With the advent of the digital age, research on the psychological impact of youth engagement with technology has surged. New technologies have often taken the blame for promoting negative (and potentially dangerous) youth experiences, such as cyber-bullying, sexual predation, privacy invasion, addiction to videogames, and exposure to violence. For many children and adolescents, however, digital media and technology provide positive ways to express identity, communicate with peers, and engage in civic activities across communities.

Access Link
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/designing-digital-experiences-for-posit…
Author/Presenter

Bers, Marina

Year
2012

Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground

Cyberlearning
Educational Technology
Elementary
Middle
High

With the advent of the digital age, research on the psychological impact of youth engagement with technology has surged. New technologies have often taken the blame for promoting negative (and potentially dangerous) youth experiences, such as cyber-bullying, sexual predation, privacy invasion, addiction to videogames, and exposure to violence. For many children and adolescents, however, digital media and technology provide positive ways to express identity, communicate with peers, and engage in civic activities across communities.

Access Link
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/designing-digital-experiences-for-posit…
Author/Presenter

Bers, Marina

Year
2012

Digital Textbook Playbook

Cyberlearning
Educational Technology
Technology
Elementary
Middle
High

About this Playbook The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators advance the conversation toward building a rich digital learning experience. This Playbook offers information about determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and community broadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary device considerations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that engaged in successful transitions to digital learning.

Author/Presenter

Digital Textbook Collaborative

Lead Organization(s)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Year
2012
Resource(s)
Digital_Textbook_Playbook.pdf
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