The study examines the attitudes and past experiences of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in Taiwan and the U.S. regarding the use of Web2Quests to promote multicultural education. The demographics in many countries are increasingly changing, especially regarding the growth of students from diverse backgrounds. In all classrooms, teachers need to have high levels of multicultural comp...

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) wird zukünftig die technische Grundlage für das „Internet der Dinge“ bilden. Aus der Veränderung der Lebenswelt folgen neue Anforderungen für den allgemeinbildenden und den berufsbildenden Informatikunterricht (vgl. [Jo06], [Ko11]). In dem vorliegenden Artikel wird die erstmalige Durchführung eines Unterrichtsprojekts für den Ausbildungsberuf Fachinformatik...

Based on a literature review, a means for integrating WebQuests in day-to-day school activities is introduced using principles of Anchored Instruction. Following these ideas in an effect study, including 109 children in 4 th , 5 th and 6 th grade, significant learning gains were found, with a large effect size. Differences in learning gain were found between groups of children from different te...

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of the design-quality of current online K-12 learning applications on student learning via three learning-related variables (student enjoyment, motivation, and anxiety level when using those online applications). Nine hundred online K-12 applications (WebQuests, online drills, games, tests, and other applications) were evaluated in terms of...