Hunting for Treasures through Learning: Using Geocaching to Motivate Young Adolescent Learners

Katherine B. Brown; Abby J. Hughes; Isabelle G. Crowder; Philip M. Brown

Gifted Child Today Magazine Vol. 38, No. 2 (April 2015) pp. 95–102

As the National Middle School Association wrote, "No other age level is of more enduring importance because the determinants of one's behavior as an adult, self concept, learning interests and skills, and values largely are formed in this...

SGML and the Orlando Project: Descriptive Markup for an Electronic History of Women's Writing

Susan Brown; Sue Fisher; Patricia Clements; Katherine Binhammer; Terry Butler; Kathryn Carter; Isobel Grundy; Susan Hockey

Computers and the Humanities Vol. 31, No. 4 (1998) pp. 271–84

Describes novel ways in which the Orlando Project, based at the Universities of Alberta and Guelph, is using Standardized General Markup Language (SGML) to create an integrated electronic history of British women's writing in English. Discusses the...

The development approach of a pedagogically-driven serious game to support Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) within a classroom setting

Sylvester Arnab; Katherine Brown; Samantha Clarke; Ian Dunwell; Theodore Lim; Neil Suttie; Sandy Louchart; Maurice Hendrix; Sara de Freitas

Computers & Education Vol. 69, No. 1 (November 2013) pp. 15–30

Didactic approaches to Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) have been shown to yield limited outcomes when compared to approaches that stimulate peer discussion and debate. Creating effective interventions, which stimulate peer involvement, remains ...

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