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Madden, Marjorie E.; Lee, Valarie G. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Quad Blogging was implemented to connect students beyond classroom walls to explore social issues. Four middle school classrooms in New Jersey, Vermont, California and Qatar served as the research sites. Students engaged in collaborative inquiry around social issues, identifying a social issue specific to their context. Final products included…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Electronic Publishing, Web Sites
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Brown, Bryan A.; Edouard, Kareem – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2017
The technology education movement includes the introduction and application of digital books into science classrooms. These digital books are attractive alternatives to traditional texts because they can be customized for students. This qualitative study examined 35 students as they customized their own digital books. Using a variety of digital…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Race, Cues, Technology Education
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Courey, Susan; LePage, Pamela; Blackorby, Jose; Siker, Jody; Nguyen, Trang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2015
The Dynabook research project was a collaborative effort aimed at developing and evaluating a new interactive Web-based resource for use in teacher education to improve how teachers learn to teach middle-school mathematics. This paper describes the outcomes of research during a three-year project to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of the…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Kronholz, June – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
More than 1 million people have watched the online video in which Salman Khan--a charming MIT math whiz, Harvard Business School graduate, and former Boston hedge-fund analyst--explains how he began tutoring his cousins in math by posting short lessons for them on YouTube. Other people began watching the lessons and sending Khan adulatory notes.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Algebra, Feedback (Response)