Encouraging efficient educational excellence with technology
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Even for informal settings, answering the questions of how to improve the classroom routine is real. Canned, scheduled professional development is not enough. Be your own researcher, sensitive to the feedback from your own students to all them to shine.
Game-based learning in civics, with the use of iCivic.org, enhances student learning in grades 4 through 8, but not in high school.
The future of education depends upon migration from the delivery model to an adaptive, collaborative, multimedia, higher-order thinking, discovery experience in class, led by an educator who serves as a facilitator, lifelong-learner, guide, coach, and crafter of problems to engage learners in new challenges.
Even with a highly knowledgeable group of learners, feedback and the immediacy of it makes a striking difference to a course, since a two-week delay in response can invalidate any positive impact of the process of peer evaluation.
Students perform significantly better and internalize their success when provided with feedback in the form of comments over grades or none at all.
For a Critical Review of the following article, click on the document link below: Erhel, S. and Jamet, E. (2013). Digital game-based learning: Impact of instructions and feedback on motivation and learning effectiveness. Computers and Education. Sept. EDU800 Critical Research Review I LSchmidt
Reading for study purposes engages the strategies of explaining, paraphrasing, and predicting, yielding better recall than what we read for the purpose of entertainment.
Clark, Richard & Feldon, David. (2014). Five common but questionable principles of multimedia learning. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. 97-115. 10.1017/CBO9781139547369.009. Clark and Feldon share the second installment of corrective action against a field of study which has been moving progressively onward since the time of Clark's initial article entitled "Media Will Never Influence … Continue reading 31 Years Later Clark Denies Influence of Media on Learning
Huang, Hsin-chou (2014). "Online Versus Paper-based Instruction: Comparing Two Strategy Training Modules for Improving Comprehension." RELC Journal. 45(2)165-180. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0033688214534797 Huang studied fifty-seven English as a Foreign Language students in a reading strategy instruction setting in order to assess the comparative impact of online instruction and paper-based instruction, during a single-session, four-hour contact. Participants were … Continue reading The Facility of Online Instruction
Annotated Bibliography Baron, Naomi S. (2017). Reading in a digital age. Phi Delta Kappan. Vol 99 (2), 15 - 20. https://doi-org.cmich.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0031721717734184 Baron's article presents a brief survey of prior research on the comparison of comprehension levels between reading print text and reading digital versions. While acknowledging distinct variations in interest, facility, and comprehension at different … Continue reading Reading in a Digital Age
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