In principle, classrooms are intended to support the delivery of effective educational models. In practice, most existing classroom designs in the U.S. — square or rectangular units adjacent to each other and organized in rectilinear rows on one or both sides of a narrow traffic corridor — reflect a “factory model” of education that was popular at the turn of the 20 century but has long since b...

Educational robotics has gained a lot of attention in the past few years K-12 education. Prior studies have shown enough shreds evidence and highlight benefits educational as being effective providing impactful learning experiences. At same time, today, scientific subject computer vision seems to dominate field robotics, leading new innovative ideas, solutions, products. Several articles from r...

Background: Addiction to computer (video) games in adolescents and its relationship with educational progress has recently attracted the attention of rearing and education experts as well as organizations and institutes involved in physical and mental health. The current research attempted to propose a structural model of the relationships between parenting styles, mothers’ occupation status, a...

This paper examines how the idea of pedagogical planning has evolved, both in form and practice, within the research work in educational technology that we have been carrying out over recent years. Specifically, it investigates two initiatives in the field of teachers’ professional development in ICT, and another undertaken as part of European research into theoretical and pedagogical framework...

This paper reports on the research work carried out by the authors in the framework of the IAMEL project, supported by the Italian Ministry of Education. The project was mainly aimed at enhancing the teaching/learning of mathematics by providing teachers with specific e-learning platforms endowed with a number of dedicated tools supporting the setting-up and the carrying-out of specific in-fiel...