Freeing the Monkeys: Making the EdTech Course More than Learning to Push Buttons

Daniel Laughlin; Sarah Irvine-Belson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 440–444

Since 1995, the School of Education at American University has offered a course called Educational Uses of Technology. The aim of the class has been to teach the metaskills necessary to empower students to become self-directed learners capable of ...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Computers, Educational Technology, Students

Blackboard Technologies: A Vehicle to Promote Student Motivation and Learning in Physics

Teresa L. Larkin; Sarah Irvine Belson

Journal of STEM Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (2005) pp. 14–27

The Blackboard Learning System™, a Web-based server software system, is widely used on many college and university campuses today. This paper explores the use of the Blackboard system as a teaching and learning tool. Particular emphasis is placed on ...

School-based Technology Mentoring: Field-based Technology Education

Danielle Gervais Sodani; Sarah Irvine Belson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2174–2178

This presentation outlines the current status of technology integration in schools from the perspective of researchers and policy makers. The focus of the paper will turn then to how teacher education programs have been preparing future teachers to ...

Topics: Teachers, Integration, Educational Technology, Schools

Digital Note Taking: The Use of Electronic Pens with Students with Specific Learning Disabilities

Sarah Irvine Belson; Daniel Hartmann and Jennifer Sherman

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 28, No. 2 (2013)

This article describes a study of the use of a digital note-taking technology with high school students with specific learning disabilities. The goal of the project was to understand the degree to which this intervention has the potential to support ...

Assistive Software Tools for Secondary-Level Students with Literacy Difficulties

Sarah Irvine Belson; Daniel Hartmann and Jennifer Sherman; Dane Marco Di Cesare David Bruce; Melissa Sullivan; Sarah Irvine Belson; Daniel Hartmann and Jennifer Sherman; Dane Marco Di Cesare David Bruce; Melissa Sullivan; Margaret Manalo Carol Sue Englert; Sarah Irvine Belson; Daniel Hartmann and Jennifer Sherman; Dane Marco Di Cesare David Bruce; Melissa Sullivan; Margaret Manalo Carol Sue Englert; Sarah Irvine Belson; Daniel Hartmann and Jennifer Sherman; Dane Marco Di Cesare David Bruce; Melissa Sullivan; Margaret Manalo Carol Sue Englert; Alissa A. Lange; Martin McPhillips; Gerry Mulhern; Judith Wylie

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 21, No. 3 (2006) pp. 13–22

The present study assessed the compensatory effectiveness of four assistive software tools (speech synthesis, spellchecker, homophone tool, and dictionary) on literacy. Secondary-level students (N = 93) with reading difficulties completed computer...