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A New Professionalism? Teacher Use of Multimedia Portable Computers with Internet Capability
Tony Fisher
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1058–1063
This paper examines the experience of some of the teachers participating in the Multimedia Portables for Teachers Pilot. The Pilot was a major, highly successful project which put 1138 high-specification portable computers in the hands of...
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Teacher development through curriculum development – teachers’ experiences in the field-trialling of on-line curriculum materials
Tony Fisher; Tim Denning
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1135–1139
This paper reports on the experiences of teachers participating in the field trials of new on-line curriculum materials and associated technologies in the UK. Background During the period January to July 2001, teachers in 60 secondary schools ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Mathematics, Evaluation, Curriculum, Networking Technologies
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Exploring the Characteristics of Effective ICT Teaching
Tim Denning; Tony Fisher
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) p. 946
Identifying and Supporting Good Practice in IT Teaching. The design, process and outcomes of a subject teacher workshop held at Keele University in May 2001 Abstract The ICT workshop reported in this paper was funded by the British Educational...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Learning Outcomes, Educational Technology, Assessment, Evaluation
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Teachers' Knowing How to Use Technology: Exploring a Conceptual Framework for Purposeful Learning Activity
Tony Fisher; Tim Denning; Chris Higgins; Avril Loveless
Curriculum Journal Vol. 23, No. 3 (2012) pp. 307–325
This article describes a project to apply and validate a conceptual framework of clusters of purposeful learning activity involving ICT tools. The framework, which is based in a socio-cultural perspective, is described as "DECK", and comprises the...
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Place and Space in the Design of New Learning Environments
Peter Jamieson; Kenn Fisher; Tony Gilding; Peter G. Taylor; A C. F. Trevitt
Higher Education Research and Development Vol. 19, No. 2 (2000) pp. 221–36
Describes some examples of recent developments in new information technology learning environments that have been enhanced by the contributions of educational developers at several Australian universities. Proposes pedagogically informed principles...
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On-line Continuing Professional Development for Teachers: Fact or Fantasy?
Tim Denning; Tony Fisher; Chris Higgins; Mike Johnson; Avril Loveless; Rob Tweats
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 691–692
In 2002 the British Educational Communications Technology Agency (BECTA) commissioned an evaluation of a pilot project of two models of on-line Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for Science teachers in Secondary schools. The conduct of the...
Topics: Educational Technology, Secondary Education, Science, Professional Development, Evaluation
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Incidental Second Language Vocabulary Learning from Reading Novels: A Comparison of Three Mobile Modes
Tony Fisher; Mike Sharples; Richard Pemberton; Hiroaki Ogata; Noriko Uosaki; Phil Edmonds; Anthony Hull; Patrick Tschorn
International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 4, No. 4 (October 2012) pp. 47–61
This paper reports on a study in which incidental English vocabulary learning from three mobile modes (book, e-book and e-book with user modelling and adaptive vocabulary learning support) was investigated. The study employed a crossover design to...