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Forming Shared Inquiry Structures to Support Knowledge Building in a Grade 5 Community
Dan Tao; Jianwei Zhang
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 46, No. 4 (2018) pp. 563–592
This study explores the reflective processes by which a grade 5 science community co-constructed shared inquiry structures to focus and guide its inquiry about human body systems over a school year supported by a collaborative online environment....
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Using Exergames in Teaching: Pre-service Teachers’ Experience, Belief, and Comfort Level
Lin Lin; Tao Zhang
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2147–2152
In this paper, we investigated pre-service teachers’ experience, personal comfort and their attitudes towards using exergames, particularly Wii Sports, in their future classrooms. Ninety-seven college students who plan to be K12 teachers...
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Playing exergames in the classroom: Pre-service teachers’ motivation, passion, effort, and perspectives
Lin Lin; Tao Zhang
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 19, No. 3 (October 2011) pp. 243–260
This study investigated pre-service teachers’ experience, motivation, passion, effort, and perspectives in playing exergames in the classroom using the self-determination theory as the main theoretical framework. One hundred forty pre-service...
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Benefits and Challenges of Using Dance Dance Revolution in Teaching: Pre-service Physical Education Teachers’ Perspectives
Tao Zhang; Lin Lin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2287–2291
The use of exergaming in physical education is an area of increasing research interest. Pre-service teachers’ attitudes toward exergaming play a vital role in the implementation of the exergaming into their future teaching. The purpose of this...
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A Performance Analysis Model for the Training and Education of Information Security Talents
Lin Li; Kai Zhang; Tao Li
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 15, No. 5 (Mar 13, 2020) pp. 140–155
There are many defects with the existing performance analysis system for the training and education (T&E) of information security talents in Chinese colleges, ranging from the difficulty in transforming fuzzy information to the lack of objectivity....
Language: English
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Usability Evaluation of a Research Repository and Collaboration Web Site
Tao Zhang; Deborah J. Maron; Christopher C. Charles
Journal of Web Librarianship Vol. 7, No. 1 (2013) pp. 58–82
This article reports results from an empirical usability evaluation of Human-Animal Bond Research Initiative Central as part of the effort to develop an open access research repository and collaboration platform for human-animal bond researchers. By ...
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Remembrance Agent: A New Type of Pedagogical Agent in Educational Game
Huiliang Zhang; Zhiqi Shen; Xuehong Tao; Chunyan Miao
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1470–1479
Many pedagogical agents have been designed and successfully applied in educational games, such as learning companions, tutor agents or other kinds of intelligent agents. Most agents work in a traditional way to teach or guide the players by directly ...
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JTATE Special Issue: Digital Games and Simulations in Teacher Preparation
Teresa Franklin; Len Annetta; Lin Lin; Tao Zhang; Pg Schrader; Leanna Achambalt; Conrad Oh-Young; Lilly Lu; Erin Peters Burton; Wendy Frazier; Richard Lamb; Rebecca Cheng; Margaret Chmiel; Marie Iding; Joan Nordbotten; Lisa Carrington; Lisa Kervin; Brian Ferry; Mariya Yukhymenko
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2534–2535
Today’s pre-service teachers have grown up with ubiquitous access to computers and the Internet, which has changed how they learn and how they will teach (Prensky, 20011). Virtual worlds, games and simulations are not new to pre-service teachers and ...