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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Roomquake: embedding dynamic phenomena within the physical space of an elementary school classroom
Authentic practice in science requires access to phenomena. In this paper, we introduce RoomQuake, an application designed to foster the growth of a community of learning around s...
Tom Moher, Syeda Hussain, Tim Halter, Debi Kilb
SIGUCCS
2000
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Opening Computing Labs, Opening Minds
The School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the University of Oregon consists of nine departments and programs with 5000 students, 160 faculty, and a few dozen staff. When I cam...
Christopher Jones
DIAGRAMS
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Diagrams in the UK National School Curriculum
Abstract. We review the use of diagrams in the UK National School Curriculum (NC) and assess it in the light of current research on childrens' graph comprehension. It is noted...
Grecia Garcia Garcia, Richard Cox
FECS
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
The Boy Crisis and the Technology Gender Gap: Laying a Framework for Success
- "They're kinetic, maddening, and failing at school." These words were used in a recent issue of Newsweek to describe the state of boys in school and the debated to...
Cynthia Lester
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
eBag: a ubiquitous Web infrastructure for nomadic learning
This paper describes the eBag infrastructure, which is a generic infrastructure inspired from work with school children who could bene t from a electronic schoolbag for collaborat...
Christina Brodersen, Bent Guldbjerg Christensen, K...