Smart E-Classrooms, Traditional Classrooms and Critical Thinking

Jennifer Thomas

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2288–2291

This paper presents the results of a study conducted to examine the impact on critical thinking of a traditional classroom versus a "smart e-classroom". Preliminary results compiled from data collected via the California Critical Thinking Skills...

Topics: Classrooms, Students

Support offered User Performance Speed, Memory, Effort, and Comfort by Package Features

Jennifer D.E. Thomas

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) p. 1655

It is suggested that ease of use of a package may be evaluated as a function of the support which design and assistance features offer user performance speed, memory, effort and comfort. Features provided in software which are believed to...

Technological Supports and Students' Perceptions of Acquisition of Team-Building and Thinking Skills

Jennifer Thomas; Danielle Morin

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 2436–2441

Abstract: This paper compares students' perceptions of support provided in the acquisition of various thinking and team-building skills, as a consequence of the integration of various resources and technology used in an upper level Distributed...

Preliminary Investigation of IMM Evaluation Instrument

Jennifer D.E. Thomas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1529–1531

The suggestion has previously been made that an instructional multimedia (IMM) application will support learning to the extent that it offers support to user performance speed, memory, effort, comfort, content and course management. (Thomas, 1998)....

Topics: Change, Multimedia, Evaluation

Delivery Method and Persistence and Performance

Jennifer Thomas; Danielle Morin; Samie Ly

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1797–1801

Abstract: Since the advent of MOOC’s, there has been rising interest in this mode of instruction delivery by institutions as a way to defray costs. This movement points to an even greater need for attention to the efficacy of online delivery for...

Topics: pedagogical issues, Teaching/Learning Strategies, improving classroom teaching

Learning Generation: Fostering Innovation with Tomorrow’s Teachers and Technology

Ronald Aust; Brian Newberry; Joseph O’Brien; Jennifer Thomas

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (2005) pp. 167–195

We discuss the context, conception, implementation, and research used to refine and evaluate a systemic model for fostering technology integration in teacher education. The Learning Generation model identifies conditions where innovations for using...

Recruiting Students of Color Through Developing Online Graduate Student Panels

Kinnis Gosha; Thomas Benjamin; Chinasa Ordu; Jennifer Horace

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1324–1330

Due to an increase in population size of underrepresented minorities (URM) and a shortage of U.S. citizens who are entering into academic majors involving science, technology, engineering and math, it is critical for the U.S. to create a “pipeline”...

An Electronic Portfolio System: Faculty and Student Perceptions

Beverly Wallace; Matthew Thomas; Andrew King; Jennifer Aldrich; Yuankun Yao

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 276–281

This brief paper reports findings from an ongoing analysis of the electronic portfolio program required for early childhood, elementary, and middle school teacher certification at Central Missouri State University. The focus of this paper is on the...

Topics: Change, Portfolios, Middle School Education

Learning Generation: Innovations With Tomorrow's Teachers and Technology

Ronald Aust; Brain Newberry; Joseph O'Brien; Jennifer Thomas

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education

In this article, we discuss the context, conception, implementation and research used to refine and evaluate a systemic model for fostering technology integration in teacher education. The Learning Generation model identifies conditions where...

Topics: Preservice Teachers, Technology integration, teacher education, Integration, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum, teacher preparation, Professional Development, faculty development, Collaboration, Inclusive Education

Looking Forward to Look Backward: Technology and King Arthur

Jennifer D.E. Thomas; Martha Driver; Jean F. Coppola; Barbara A. Thomas

AACE Journal Vol. 16, No. 4 (October 2008) pp. 367–383

This article discusses students' perceptions of the impact of technology integration in an interdisciplinary medieval English literature and multimedia course on developing higher-order thinking skills and team-building skills. The results indicate...

Topics: Multimedia, Computers, Teaching Methods, Collaboration, Classrooms, Learning Outcomes

Editorial: Integrated STEM and Current Directions in the STEM Community

Andrea C. Burrows; Joe Garofalo; Steven Barbato; Rhonda Christensen; Michael Grant; - Kinshuk; Jennifer Parrish; Christine Thomas; Tandra Tyler-Wood

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 4 (December 2017) pp. 478–482

uring this National Technology Leadership Summit (NTLS; see ntls.info), concurrent “strand” deliberations took place over 2 days. One of those strands was entitled American Innovations in the Content Areas: STEM, and the discussion within that...

Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2013

(2013) pp. 1–186

Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education is now in its fifth year of publication, and has become one of the most important journals for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). This journal represents the...