Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
Mar 18, 2019
Editors
Kevin Graziano
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 443
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Showcasing Children’s STEM talent: A STEM Night Situation
Temitope Olokunde, Albertha Lawson, Susannah Craig & Victor Mbarika, Southern University and A & M College, United States
This paper explores Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning at the elementary level through a STEM Night program organized at a STEM Elementary School. The STEM Night... More
pp. 1462-1467
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Breaking Down University Walls: An On-line Mentoring Program for Pre-Service Teacher Candidates
Donna Sanderson, West Chester University, United States
This presentation explores the birth of an On-line Mentoring Program created to assist teacher candidates in the Early Grades Education Program during their capstone semester of student teaching.... More
pp. 1468-1470
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Relearning of the Teachers: Effect of Training in Universal Design for Learning on Teacher’s Knowledge and Skills and Learners’ Achievement
Khurana Aashna, ASER Centre, Pratham Education Foundation, India, India; Panshikar Apoorva, SNDT Women’s University, India
With an increasing number of academically and culturally diverse student populations in educational institutions, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) has the potential to improve the quality of... More
pp. 1471-1481
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Assessment of the Influence of the Lecturer’s Teaching Strategies on Undergraduate Students’ Learning Outcomes in the Use of English in Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria
Beatrice Adeyemi, Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria, Nigeria
The study examined various teaching strategies employed in the teaching of Use of English among undergraduate students in Ondo State University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Nigeria. It... More
pp. 1482-1488
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Use of digital tools by high school teachers teaching writing participating in an intervention program to reduce the "discipline block"
Orit Avidov-Ungar, Achva Academic College & Open University, Israel; Aliza Amir, Achva Academic College, Israel
Digital literacy plays an important role in adapting education systems for the 21st century. Previous research indicates that teachers' main difficulties in assimilating technology in teaching stem... More
pp. 1489-1493
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Telling True Stories: Adventures in Multimedia Nonfiction Narrative
Fawn Canady, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States; Troy Hicks, Central Michigan University, United States
The Digital Storymakers, a multimedia narrative nonfiction contest from 2013, is recast in the post-truth era that challenges those of us teaching media literacy. In December of 2012, the media... More
pp. 1494-1502
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Goodreads.com: Using a Social Media Site as an English Teacher-Education Performance Assessment
Kristina Doubet, James Madison University, United States
Although the disciplines of reading and writing should be woven together as integrated, interdependent practices in grades 6-12 (NCTE 2016), most middle and high school teachers implement separate ... More
pp. 1503-1507
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Low-Stakes Writing using Digital Tools: Fostering Confidence and Fluency in Adolescent Writing Instruction
Kristina Doubet, James Madison University, United States; Gena Southall, Longwood University, United States
Best practice in writing instruction calls for a focus on content over form (Hillcocks, 2005) and providing frequent opportunities for high-interest, low-stakes writing (e.g., Graham & Hebert, 2010... More
pp. 1508-1513
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Integrating Instructional Technology into the K-12 ESL Classroom
Liliana Julio, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Colombia; Erik Kormos, Colegio Karl C. Parrish, United States
This quantitative study investigated the impact of school setting on perceptions and attitudes of K-12 public school English as a second language (ESL) teachers related to learning technologies in ... More
pp. 1514-1519
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Autolingualism in the Digital Age: The Emergence of Cyber Lingua Franca and Its Impact on Language Education
Fusa Katada, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
The communication-oriented globalized age has yielded unavoidable discrepancies. First, professionals are expected to have effective communication skills using English as a lingua franca (ELF).... More
pp. 1520-1528
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Effective technology integration in teacher education
Henk La Roi & Roland Bruijn, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
The poster is a practical follow-up of A. Smits’ brief paper in the symposium “Practicing and prospective teachers’ pedagogical reasoning about using technology in their educational practice” ... More
p. 1529
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The Friendliest English Curriculum Design for All
Terumi Miyazoe, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
This paper presents an on-going English Curriculum development of flexible learning for night programs at a science university in Tokyo. Due to its relative obscurity, the issues regarding night... More
pp. 1530-1535
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Applying existing technologies to support elementary school teachers in teaching English in remote towns in Japan
Eri Ono, Hitoshi Susono, Maki Hagino, Kazuyoshi Enomoto, Emiko Onishi, Norihiko Matsuba & Yuya Hasegawa, Mie University, Japan
This paper reports on how exiting technologies were applied to support elementary school teachers in teaching English in remote towns in the southern part of Mie Prefecture. (Starting in April 2018... More
pp. 1536-1539
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Integrating Learning by Design into a Flipped Civil Engineering Design Course
Secil Akinci-Ceylan, Evrim Baran & Halil Ceylan, Iowa State University, United States
Flipped learning has been on the rise in higher education and is growingly used in learning environments in engineering contexts. This case study aimed to examine students’ problem-solving... More
pp. 1540-1545
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Design and Development of a Modular Maker Education Course for Diverse Education Students
Jonathan Cohen, Cassandra Gaul, Julia Huprich & Leigh Martin, Georgia State University, United States
This paper describes the design and development of an innovative maker education course. The course was designed to be responsive to students with diverse interests in education and consistent with... More
pp. 1546-1555
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Beyond Boundaries: Pre-Service Teachers’ Experiences of Transdisciplinary Education via STEAM Making Projects
Zoe Falls, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, United States
Though today's problems are interconnected, complicated, and unpredictable, students continue to gain knowledge in discrete, standardized disciplinary silos. When subject integration is discussed... More
pp. 1556-1562
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Beyond Content: What Else Did Pre-service Teachers Learn in a Making Course in a Teacher Education Program
Yi Jin, Kennesaw State University, United States
Making has become increasingly prevalent in K-12 education, thus, calls for teacher educators to design instruction to prepare pre-service teachers for using making as pedagogy. This preparation... More
pp. 1563-1568
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Scaffolding Pedagogical Change: Professional Development to Support Elementary Teachers in Implementing Mobile Maker Kits
Robin Jocius, Ashley Andrews & Jennifer Albert, The Citadel, United States
The purpose of this paper is to describe findings from a study in which we investigated a gradual increase of responsibility model to scaffold a 1st and a 3rd grade teacher as they integrated... More
pp. 1569-1577
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Are Students Learning from the E-videos? Flipped Classroom Teaching for a Very Large Cohort Engineering Module: An Evaluation report
Sudha Kannurao, Ho Peng Ching & Lie Siung Tjen, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore
In this report, we are evaluating the effectiveness of the e-learning videos for a foundation subject which was offered through flipped approach for very large-cohort of 1000+ freshmen from 8... More
pp. 1578-1583
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5th/6th Graders and Preservice Teachers Explore Engineering and Coding in a Combined After-School Technology Club/Educational Technology Course
Jennifer Kidd, Old Dominion University, United States; Sam Sacks, Old Dominion Unversity, United States; Krishna Kaipa & Kelly Rippard, Old Dominion University, United States
Elementary schools are increasingly encouraged to adopt STEM education efforts that include engineering and programming, yet pre-service teachers (PSTs) are not traditionally prepared to teach... More
pp. 1600-1605