Prospective science teachers as e-learning designers

Running head : PROSPECTIVE SCIENCE TEACHERS ’ UNDERSTANDING 1 Prospective Science Teachers ’ Understanding of Science and Engineering Practices

Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education

This article presents a constructionist approach to introducing technology, in particular robotics, in the early childhood classroom. The authors demonstrate how this approach is well suited, since the four basic tenets of constructionism have a long-standing tradition in early childhood education: (a) learning by designing meaningful projects to share in the community, (b) using concrete objec...

Teachers, Computers, Games, and Designers

Thus we have the conundrum of all schools from the most ancient times to the modern day: how to devise a uniform curriculum and teaching methodology that properly educates a diverse group of students? As class sizes grow, the problem becomes worse, a phenomenon that Quintilian himself recognized. (Quintilian, 1922b) He argues that schools have certain advantages over one-to-one learning with a ...

Evaluating authoring tools for teachers as instructional designers

The REDEEM authoring environment was developed to allow educators with no programming knowledge to design learning environments (simple Intelligent Tutoring Systems) for their students in a time-effective manner. The success of this approach depends on two key factors. Firstly, on the extent to which the authoring tool is usable by its intended author population (classroom teachers, university ...

Implications of research on learning for the education of prospective science and physics teachers†

This article provides a brief overview of cognitive research findings from the last 25 years pertinent to the teaching and learning of physics, and discusses the implications of this research both for structuring the training of prospective physics instructors, and for reforming physics instruction. Over the last two decades cognitive research has made great strides in helping us understand the...