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This chapter discusses the changed nature of literacy within new communication contexts, the literacy that is needed for reading, viewing, responding to and producing multimodal and digital texts. Potentials for redesigning literacy pedagogy within new modes of communication are demonstrated for educational contexts. As a basis for this discussion, the author analyses classroom evidence using e...

We present the SketchMap system, which integrates outdoor and classroom activities to support children’s collaborative learning. Individual children create maps near their school in an outdoor environment using a SketchMap client. The maps are uploaded to the SketchMap web server for sharing among the children, who have created maps of different areas. Children can edit or add new information t...

The Flipped Classroom (FC) is a pedagogical model, which reverse the process of traditional learning strategies into collaborative learning strategies and also represent an opportunity to rethink teaching and learning in the context of virtual education. Typical lecture and homework practices of a course are reversed by changing it into lectures at home. Students viewed their lecturer through v...

We examine the impact of two universal preventive interventions in first grade on the growth of aggressive/disruptive behavior in grades 1-3 and 6-12 through the application of a latent transition growth mixture model (LT-GMM). Both the classroom-centered and family-centered interventions were designed to reduce the risk for later conduct problems by enhancing the child behavior management prac...

As teachers inevitably model their teaching on their own experiences, those who educate teachers must remain conscious of their own actions in the classroom, lest unwelcome behaviors or ineffective methods resurface in their students’ future teaching. Therefore, self-study of one’s professional practice is an invaluable tool for evaluating efficacy in the classroom. This study evaluated the tea...

Learning the new vocabulary of a new lesson by high school students before starting to teachthe whole of lesson in every session is the main concern of the writer of this study as anEnglish teacher. So the purpose of the present study is introducing some practical classroomtasks (such as, working with oxford dictionary for looking up the definitions, synonyms,antonyms and examples of new words,...

Paper interfaces offer tremendous possibilities for geometry education in primary schools. Existing computer interfaces designed to learn geometry do not consider the integration of conventional school tools, which form the part of the curriculum. Moreover, most of computer tools are designed specifically for individual learning, some propose group activities, but most disregard classroom-level...

In this commentary, I make five points: that designing observation systems that actually predict students' outcomes is challenging; second that systems that capture the complex and dynamic nature of the classroom learning environment are more likely to be able to meet this challenge; three, that observation tools are most useful when developed to serve a particular purpose and are put to that p...

A sociocultural perspective on teacher learning was used to investigate how three beginning teachers’ conceptions of classroom management affected their developing teaching practices. Students were followed from student teaching through their first 2 years of teaching. Data sources included interviews, classroom observations, and teacher education portfolios. Although all three teachers shared ...