Using Interactive Picture-Book Read-Alouds with Middle School EFL Students

efl home literacy practices of iranian middle school students: an ethnography

موضوع آموزش زبان انگلیسی و کسب مهارت در آن همواره مورد توجه کارشناسان، خانواده ها و معلمان قرار داشته است. امروزه این مهم، با گسترش نیازها و تنوع کاربرد های آن، بیش از هر زمان دیگری به مطالعه و تحلیل نیاز دارد. بر اساس یک رویکرد فرهنگی- اجتماعی به آموزش و سواد، این مطالعه کیفی در پی آن است تا با شیوه قوم نگاری((ethnography، توصیف و تحلیلی از مجموعه فعالیت های آموزشی در خانه( (home literacy ...

Interactive Picture Book with Story-Changeable System by Shuffling Pages

In this chapter, the authors introduce SequenceBook system, an interactive picture book that consists of a paper book with very thin IC (Integrated Circuit) tags embedded in each page and an RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) antenna. This system uses a traditional paper book as an interface and realizes natural interface that keeps the affordance of traditional book and thus smoothly prompt...

Beating the Odds: Teaching Middle and High School Students to Read and Write Well

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Using Interactive Graphics to Teach Programming to Middle School Girls

Westminster College runs a math, science, and computing summer camp for middle school girls called AWE+SUM. Core to the camp is the set of workshops that apply these domains through creative hands-on experiments and exploration. One of the most popular workshops is called “Programming with Alice” where we introduce the girls to programming concepts and basic gaming fundamentals through Carnegie...

Running Head: TEACHERS’ EXPECTATIONS OF MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS Teachers’ Expectations of Middle School Students