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The Learner as Teacher: Using Student Authored Comics to “Teach” Mathematics Concepts
Leslee Francis Pelton; Timothy Pelton
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1591–1599
Comics are a part of popular culture that has great potential for enhancing student learning. Comics were embraced for their utility in education in the 1940s but were subsequently denigrated and effectively blacklisted for educational application...
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Developing a Course to Explore the Applications and Impacts of Video in Education
Timothy Pelton; Manish Sehgal; Leslee Francis Pelton
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3042–3046
The purpose of this paper is to share some of the thoughts and ideas that we have had as we worked on redesigning a senior undergraduate course on video in education. Video technology has become ubiquitous in our schools and our lives but it seems...
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Using an iPad to Explain Everything by Creating Interactive Activities and Vignettes
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 4843–4847
Explain Everything is a fantastic app that has huge potential to support students and educators in the learning process. The Explain Everything App (and others like it) allows teachers and students to create projects such as interactive activities...
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Using WWW, Usenets, and E-Mail To Manage a Mathematics Pre-Service Technology Course
Leslee Francis Pelton; Timothy W. Pelton
Computers in the Schools Vol. 14, No. 3 (1998) pp. 79–93
Discusses the need to learn about computer technology in preservice teacher education and describes a course developed at Brigham Young University as a model for teaching mathematics using technology that was offered via the Internet. Discusses Web...
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Creating Handheld Applications to Support the Development of Conceptual Mastery
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2029–2034
Handheld devices like the iPod Touch have great potential to support mathematics learning in unique ways: the form factor allows for anytime-anywhere micro-tutoring; the usability and low cost reduce the threshold and encourage adoption; and the...
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Reflecting on Personal Professional Development—Exploring the Potentials of 3D Printing by Creating a Simulated Artifact
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 969–974
As we examine new technologies to determine their worth both to ourselves and to our students, we might stop to reflect on our personal professional development. In this paper we reflect on the self-guided process that we used to explore the...
Topics: mathematics education, Digital Fabrication, New Possibilties with Information Technologies
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Creating Simple iPad Games to Consolidate Understanding
Leslee Francis-Pelton; Timothy Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 840–844
MathTappers:MultiMatch, is a new, free (yes, and without ads) matching game app that allows anyone (teachers, students, parents, experts, etc.) to create decks to support consolidation, mastery, and fluency development in any content area. It?s a...
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Enhancing Lessons by Fortifying Rather Than Flipping
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2743–2747
Flipping is an educational model that is intuitively appealing because it moves the presentation of factual information to video content assigned as homework while providing more time for in-class discussions, activities and 1:1 interactions. ...
Topics: mathematics education, Technology Leadership, Digital Storytelling/Video
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Sharing Strategies With Teachers: iPods in Math Class
Leslee Francis Pelton; Timothy Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 4363–4366
Mobile devices have the potential to provide opportunities for self-paced, conceptually-focused challenges as well as to support motivation, scaffolding, discussion, accommodation and assessment. In this presentation we explore practical strategies, ...
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Preservice Teachers as Mentors: Learning Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Topics Through School Outreach Activities
Leslee Francis Pelton; Timothy Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3598–3602
Current national standards in both science and mathematics advocate constructivist learning environments. Many elementary and middle school preservice teachers lack confidence and competence to teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics ...
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Multimedia, Design, and Storytelling Principles Supporting the Creation of Learning Resources
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis-Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 900–905
Students, pre-service teachers, and teachers, can generate more effective comics, videos, and other learning resources if they apply sound principles of multimedia, design, and storytelling. Examining the literature we see a substantial body of...
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Design Principles for Making Meaningful Mathematics Apps
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2199–2204
We have developed a series of free iOS Apps to support children in learning mathematics concepts and procedures through play and exploration. Through the development process, several design principles were identified and refined including: a) keep...
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BUILDING ATTITUDES: HOW a TECHNOLOGY COURSE AFFECTS PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ ATTITUDES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
Leslee Pelton; Timothy W. Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 199–204
Despite the increased availability of computers in schools, many teachers are hesitant to include use of computers in their instruction. Although many teachers believe computers are an important component of a student’s education, their lack of...
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Teaching by Example: Using Www, Usenets, and E-Mail in a Pre-Service Course
Leslee Francis-Pelton; Timothy W. Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 433–437
Many universities now require students to complete a course on using computer technology as part of their teacher education programs. These programs are often designed to familiarize students with existing technology, tools, and software....
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Clickers Supporting Teaching, Teacher Education, Educational Research and Teacher Development
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton; Brad Epp
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1065–1070
Audience response systems, commonly known as clickers, are gaining widespread acceptance and use in educational settings. These clickers can be used to support student engagement in traditional classroom discussions, model the use of new...
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Learning by Communicating Concepts Through Comics
Leslee Francis Pelton; Timothy Pelton; Karen Moore
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1974–1981
Comics are a part of popular culture that simultaneously appeals to children and raises the eyebrows of parents and educators. Comics were enthusiastically examined for educational potential in the 1940s but were subsequently denigrated and...
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The Electronic Slate: Including Preservice Teachers in Research and Development
Timothy W. Pelton; Leslee Francis-Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 551–555
Introducing new technology to education has always been a struggle. Many politicians, administrators, and technologyliterate teachers are eager to find solutions which might improve the educational process, and ultimately prove costeffective. Others ...
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Examining the Efficacy of a Technology Enhanced Clock-Reading Instructional Protocol
Timothy Pelton; Todd Milford; Leslee Francis Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2544–2549
In this paper we share our results from a pilot study designed to support the validation of a technology enhanced instructional protocol for clock-reading. This protocol integrated appropriate technology tools (iPads and a researcher-designed app)...
Topics: mathematics education, New Possibilties with Information Technologies
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Teacher Reflections on Using iPads and Apps to Support Mathematics Education
Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis Pelton; Todd Milford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2748–2753
In this paper we examine our reflections on the process of integrating appropriate mathematical exploration and consolidation apps into traditional classroom lessons. In addition to observing that the students were positively disposed to the...
Topics: mathematics education, Mathematics
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Understanding the use of Technological Tools (iPads) teaching a specific mathematics topic through the PCK-EC model – Case study
Mercy Pena-Morales; Timothy Pelton; Leslee Francis-Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2101–2108
The Pedagogical Content Knowledge in an Educational Context (PCK-EC) model was used to describe a teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge as he taught specific mathematics topics using a particular technological tool (mainly iPads). The PCK-EC...
Topics: mathematics education, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge in an Educational Context (PCK-EC)
Mercy L. Pena-Morales; Timothy Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 3023–3028
To understand how we might improve the teaching of mathematics we must turn some of our attention toward the knowledge that teachers need to know for teaching. The Pedagogical Content Knowledge in an Educational Context (PCK-EC) model is proposed as ...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Evaluating PCK-EC in Practice – Case Study
Mercy L. Pena-Morales; Timothy Pelton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2251–2257
The Pedagogical Content Knowledge in an Educational Context (PCK-EC) model was used as the framework for understanding a teacher’s knowledge for teaching a specific mathematics topic with the use of technological tools. From the teacher’s comments...
Topics: mathematics education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies